Have you ever been diagnosed with depression?

[merithyn]

I'm just curious. There are many people I know who have or have had issues with depression. I've heard that it's a disease of the high IQ, meaning the smarter you are the more like you are to deal with it. Since Languish is, in general, smarter than the average populace, I wondered if depression was more common here than elsewhere.

[Slargos]

I'm just curious. There are many people I know who have or have had issues with depression. I've heard that it's a disease of the high IQ, meaning the smarter you are the more like you are to deal with it. Since Languish is, in general, smarter than the average populace, I wondered if depression was more common here than elsewhere.

You're working from a premise I find highly dubious. 

As for the question: I resist diagnosis. IDK. 

[The Brain]

No, I'm too intelligent.

[Brazen]

Yes. Better at the moment, but knowing what it is and recognising it makes it a bit easier to cope with. I just wasn't myself on the meds.

[Norgy]

I'm just curious. There are many people I know who have or have had issues with depression.

Yes. More or less a permanent fixture, so I am not sure what life without would be like. Or, it'd be like when I was in high school, I suppose. Less self-doubt and a bit more enjoyment.
Apparently, I have gone from severe depression to light/moderate the past three years. 

Of course, being Scandiweenian, depression sort of just happens. Most people I know have periods either every year or at some point in their lives. And the symptoms and effects are just as varied as the causes, I think. Some are completely paralyzed, while others function more or less like other people but isolate themselves more. I fall into that category. 

The best cure seems to have been a blend of cognitive therapy, light medication and increased cardio excercise. The last part may seem strange, but it gets the metabolism going, produces more good hormones and helps regulate sleep patterns in my case.

[Viking]

Agree with Norgy. Once I identified my triggers it all became easy to deal with.

[viper37]

I'm just curious. There are many people I know who have or have had issues with depression. I've heard that it's a disease of the high IQ, meaning the smarter you are the more like you are to deal with it. Since Languish is, in general, smarter than the average populace, I wondered if depression was more common here than elsewhere.

No, never been diagnosed.  I don't think it's related to IQ though.

[Martinus]

If I were to self-diagnose (which is notoriously unreliable), I'd say I have ADHD, Asperger's, NPD and/or HPD, but not depression. I have an immense ability to live in denial and think that I have a great love life, a wonderful career and that everybody likes me.

[merithyn]

I'm just curious. There are many people I know who have or have had issues with depression. I've heard that it's a disease of the high IQ, meaning the smarter you are the more like you are to deal with it. Since Languish is, in general, smarter than the average populace, I wondered if depression was more common here than elsewhere.

No, never been diagnosed.  I don't think it's related to IQ though.

I'm not saying that all people with high IQs get depression. I have read somewhere, however, that those with higher IQs are more prone to depression than the general populace. (The article I read was specific to "gifted" kids in college, though, so I don't know if it translates well across the lines to others.)

[Zanza2]

I know several people who had (or still have) a depression. Based on that, I'd say I never had one.

[Barrister]

Yes. More or less a permanent fixture, so I am not sure what life without would be like. Or, it'd be like when I was in high school, I suppose. Less self-doubt and a bit more enjoyment.

The only time when I might have suffered from depression was in high school.  I wasn't super picked on or anything, I just didn't have any friends as was pretty lonely.

But since the age of 17 (when I went to university) life has gotten better pretty much every single year.  My life right now - definitely not depressing. 

[Ideologue]

You don't need an M.D. or M.A. to figure out that I suffer from depression (it was, in retrospect, obvious--even when I was a small child), although I have latterly gotten a professional diagnosis.

[Josquius]

Was told I was probally bi-poplar by a doctor once, avoided shrinks, have had depressive times but not right now.

[Razgovory]

If I were to self-diagnose (which is notoriously unreliable), I'd say I have ADHD, Asperger's, NPD and/or HPD, but not depression. I have an immense ability to live in denial and think that I have a great love life, a wonderful career and that everybody likes me.

I think Narcissism is correct.  The rest of it is just your stunning stupidity.

[Razgovory]

And yes, I do have depression.  Dysthymia was the diagnosis I was given after last round of tests.  Along with the Schizotypal thingy.