Re: Depression (NBC)

On Jan 23, 4:52�pm, "Zeke" <Yakzoom...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"an inconvenient Ruth" <ragb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree with the above.
However, I grew up outside running around and biking incessantly
was never a fat kid and had a depressive disorder anyway.

Yea, and some things are genetic. �But a lot of this stuff can be avoided if
you start them out young. �And the stuff that can't be avoided, some of it
can at least be delayed; again, if you start out young. �And then when it
does hit, it is easier managed if the individual has these coping skills of
excercize and nature.

But man, imagine the poor kid who has a genetic depression time bomb in
his/her system (say at age 28) and is raised by parents who don't follow
proper nutrition and/or excercise guidelines, plus never take the kid out
into nature.

That person is screwed from Day One.

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That's so much of the problem with depression. It strikes people on
so many different levels of severity. There is a student in my
classroom, she's a freshman. So clinically depressed. We are lucky
for the days her mother can actually get her out of bed to school.
She is constantly talking about wanting to die, regardless of the meds
they have her on. She has attempted suicide several times in life,
pre-medication and post-medication. She is miserable and on the verge
of tears all the time. It is a sad, sad case. Sometimes I don't
think that there is anything that will necessarily work with a person
like that. Not that anyone should give up trying, but it almost seems
like some people are just doomed from the start. There are other
students who have been diagnosed with depression, that are depressed
and always seem somewhat sad, but still function ok. Depression is
such an all-encompassing label for such a condition that effects
people in such vastly different ways.

I am not a doctor, a psychiatrist, or anything like that. Just have
worked with kids in special services for about 7 years. Worked inner-
city, worked suburban, have seen a lot. I have taught kids who are
overmedicated and just really need some discipline and structure at
home. Their parents want us to cure in 6 hours a day, the mess they
have made of their children over 14 years or so. Easier to medicate
the kid than actually put the effort into raising him right. Then
there are the kids who truly are ADD or ADHD. You see them when they
have their bouts of refusing to take their meds and they are bouncing
off the walls, and truly cannot stay focused on anything.

There didn't seem to be so many kids with so many problems when I was
a kid...ummmm...not SO long ago. (I"m 41 now). But if research isn't
seriously conducted into whether it's the pesticides, or the vaccines,
or the preservatives and chemicals in the food, or poor parenting,
lack of exercise, fresh air and sunshine or whatever, our kids are
going to keep being depressed, keep being diagnosed as ADD/ADHD and
each generation it is going to get worse. It's a sad state of
things. Obviously this is only the opinion I have formed from my own
experiences, but there it is!

Peace,
Debbie
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