Rethinking Depression Part 1, Depression & Bipolar Myths

Rethinking Depression Part 1, Depression & Bipolar Myths

Anna Miller, the founder and CEO of The Depression Project and Carol Creel, the President of LifeWorks Marketing discuss common myths surrounding mental health issues such as depression, bipolar disorders and anxiety problems. Are these experiences really mental illnesses as psychiatry and big pharma would have you believe? Is depression really caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain? Are there alternatives to treating these problems without the use of antidepressants or other medications or psychotropic drugs? What are some ways someone might be able to begin to recover from depression?


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[LostMente]

I think it is very important to look at the causes and motivations of ones struggle with state of self. I am yet to unravel much of mine, taking antidepressants and anti-psychotics have helped balance out my state of being from all the drugs I used to take. They have side effects, but they're also enabling me to examine who I am. It is very difficult. Do not underestimate the struggle that is self discover, if its easy then you're not doing it right.

[noone120000]

Pills are not natural and it will mess up the brain chemistry.

Happiness is all in the mind.

[AngryKhan]

@noone120000 you are ignorant.

[brama1969]

To the fat one: Why can't you simply think yourself "thin"???? Why are you so fat?

Lying fraudulent bitches.

[jshields01]

My mom suspected i had depression, then I had an aggressive therapist who insisted that I have bi-polar, and wanted me to take mood stabilizers. I refused, and even though I have no criminal record, she had me committed to a mental hospital. I won in court, and was released just after three days. I know there is something wrong with me that is making me feel hopeless and unmotivated, but psychiatrists are just greedy power hungry worms...who can ruin your life in a second

[toneage7]

@urbansetter1 Hallucinagens(when taken CORRECTLY) help you restore hope and a path as well as pot in my experience. Coke is a bad trigger, though!!

[yukinagoto]

How about this psychetruth?

all my life I felt that everyone was watching me.

now that Im 20 my paranoia and tendency to be delusional swung around and now is in full effect.

do I NOT need drugs?

I need them. I need more of them. I effing lost my job because of this.

[TheLilacmama]

@vaheedh YOU, YOU are the STUPID, UNEDUCATED ONE! I have NEVER done street drugs. Nor did I or my husband when it got passed from ME to MY SON! AND it's b.s. to think medication is the only treatment that's effective in manageing it, thought there are truly some who are severe enough to need it. People like YOU make the concept of HELL something that others live through every day. Go get stuffed.

[urbansetter1]

I am starting to think that street drugs trigger this illness also. It is being studied now. When you take hallucinagins it causes your neurotransmitters to wack out. Even pot will kick off a chemical imbalance. Stress in your childhood aids to iy.

[OfficeSpace420]

If you live in cali with gas cost 4 dollar something and car insurance rent ect....you most likely have bipolar....real talk!

[mrsigary]

its some thing that u make it on ur self bull sheet if u get 20 million doller ur not gone die even if u got cancer cuse u got the perpose to live

[mprime2003]

who this happy b itches think they arE?