Who has experienced depression.

[CaribbeanPirate]

Do-good-ers say that anyone suffering from depression should not bottle it up and talk to someone about their problems. However, as soon as they do, everyone around them tells them to shut up.

Never mention the D word in the workplace. I knew of one woman who said the D word when she meant to say unhappy/concerned/dissatisfied with something and it found its way onto her personnel record. For years, it would come up as a topic at review time and it was a blight on her prospects at the company. Redundancy was the best thing that happened to her. New company, clean record and she did very well.

[Swamp Thing]

I think I've just got depression having read all these replies. Who's got the razor blades?

[ASB]

I think I've just got depression having read all these replies. Who's got the razor blades?

If you can motivate yourself to top yourself you're not properly depressed yet.

When I was at a hotel in Portugal they had a conference on serious depression and treatment thereof. I got chatting to one of the UK delegates in the bar. He told me the real risk for his patients (he deals with serious cases) was when they started to improve. Frightnening thought, improve to such an extent you can actually be bothered to top yourself.