<p>Idk, I can definitely see where the college is coming from</p>
<p>Actually, me too. If the student shows signs of committing suicide their reaction is understandable. After all, there are hundreds or thousands of other kids to worry about and take care of. But if it’s just depression, with no signs of impending suicide, then not really.</p>
<p>But normally the health center has no right to disclose your mental health condition to the administration. Unless, of course, it is crucial, such as suicide.</p>
<p>Forget about all of the oddball cases. The school will provide free counseling, so go to health and counseling services.</p>
<p>Remember Virginia Tech…i think you should seek counseling…at this point,anything can happen</p>
<p>Jesus, once again, depression is not a mood as MLDWoody would suggest. The thing you’re describing is simply an emotional low, and yes, it can be changed. Depression is a clinical diagnosis of an actual condition. And depression does not instantaneously translate into something like Virginia Tech.
Obviously a few of you have the common stigmas against mentally ill people that Americans tend to have. The mentally ill are often perceived as having done something to deserve their illness, choosing not to control it, or being violent aggressors. In fact a pretty large part of the stable population has one or another mental illness. There are probably more than a few people in your life who have mental illnesses that you may not know about. And if you’re as prejudiced as some of you seem to be, I don’t blame them for not telling you.</p>
<p>a preemptive stance is much better than a corrective one. therefore, i would strongly urge you to seek counseling(tho they typically dont do much).
hey globyghost, we prejudge ppl all the time
we think fat people LOVE food, we think a&f kids are pretetious ******bags(which they are), we think americans are dumb(which they are as well). Therefore, prejudging is vital to our lifestyle; consequently, we must stop this man before he creates chaos. depression breeds very evil thoughts</p>
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Counseling typically doesn’t do much for people? On what do you base this claim?</p>
<p>… well… fat kids (most of them) are lazy and eat too much. Some might have a genetic/hereditary thing going on, but I think most could try a little better.</p>
<p>…sorta how I feel about ADD but that’s another story</p>
<p>They won’t do anything. I am a college student on anti-depressants, and another friend of mine has SERIOUS depression (her prescription is a really high dose and she’s had years of therapy). Unless you try to hurt yourself or someone else they will not intervene, and probably not even know. </p>
<p>As others have said, if you need help, get help. Don’t let people convince you that something like that is your fault because it is not. Nobody would choose to be depressed given other options. I found counseling pretty helpful, myself, because it gave me some tips for concrete things that could make me feel better (establishing a bedtime routine, getting more sleep, rewarding myself, etc.). It also got me to understand some of the roots and triggers of my feelings so that I could work on those situations. For instance, a lot of my problems were caused by the situation I was in as a student and being overwhelmed, so I got concrete advice such as to drop a class and then think about what I could do to fix my situation. I ended up following the advice, and have since transferred colleges and switched my major, and I am SO much happier now studying something that I love instead of plodding through something I hate.</p>
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<p>Wait what?</p>
<p>Depression= chemical imbalance.
Non-hereditary obesity = Lifestyle choice. </p>
<p>I have no idea what your post is trying to get at. Depression, REAL depression, is a diagnosable, usually treatable medical condition. I have been dealing with depression since I was about 13 and it sucks. Can you imagine what it’s like to never truly be happy? Can you imagine what it’s like to not want to get out of bed, EVER, simply because you can’t get the motivation? And then let’s make it worse by everyone around you saying “Oh, just snap out of it.” Trust me buddy, if I could just smile and make it go away, I would have done it a long time ago. </p>
<p>OP- The U doesn’t care unless you’re a threat to yourself or others.</p>
<p>…what? I didn’t say they were the same thing. Someone else mentioned fat kids and I rolled with it.</p>
<p>Of course there is “real” depression out there. But I think there have to be some cases where meds aren’t needed. I mean, all of these anti-depressant ads on TV, its like the need for this just exploded.</p>
<p>Kinda of like some fat people being fat cuz of genetics and some people with ADD actually having ADD. While other fat people are just lazy and some kids are just stupid/impatient.</p>
<p>****… I guess I just did connect fat kid to depression. Well, I meant the genetic fat kids to the “real” depression</p>
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<p>I’m sure there are other reasons</p>
<p>About obesity, not all cases of non-hereditary obesity are because of laziness or lifestyle choices. Some people are just never satiated, they eat and eat and eat, but unless they almost gorge themselves they never really <em>want</em> to stop eating. They are always hungry, even when they eat so much they feel sick.</p>
<p>But, I don’t know the cause.</p>
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<p>Around 30% of people who seek treatment for obesity have binge eating disorder, which the DSM-V will classify as a separate eating disorder. For these people, food can become an addiction. Do you call alcoholism a lifestyle choice?</p>
<p>There are also people who are obese because of thyroid problems, medications they are taking, stress, and a myriad of other hard-to-control factors. There are fat people who are just lazy overeaters. However, I doubt that many fat people don’t mind being fat, as the characterization of “lifestyle choice” would seem to imply.</p>
<p>In short, we have no idea why the dude on the bus or the woman at the baseball game is fat, and we shouldn’t just assume that he’s lazy or she eats too many brownies.</p>
<p>Just as we shouldn’t assume that people with depression chose to be that way or are going to be violent and crazy. I think people would be surprised to know how many people in their lives are suffering from some mental illness.</p>
<p>…or at least have been diagnosed with one</p>
<p>By non-hereditary, I meant anything that is genetic or clinical. Sorry.</p>
<p>I am happy I am important enough to be the subject of your very first post.</p>
<p>I was diagnosed with depression, but I’m slowly trying to come out of it. However, I put that I was depressed on my college application because I can’t pretend like I never had it when I did.</p>