How can someone be diagnosed with depression?

[Bisjac]

there is no example of people being helped on antidepressants. they all just claim "it makes it less worse" when really its just a placebo on that. they still constantly are depressed all the loving time.

the only people who ever cure of it, are ones that get their stuff together in the several places in life they forgeted up. no thanks to pills.

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[Electrk..]

you seem pretty certain about these wrong opinions

ike why are you taking the bait lol; you know better

[IkeTheGeneric]

there is no example of people being helped on antidepressants. they all just claim "it makes it less worse" when really its just a placebo on that. they still constantly are depressed all the loving time.

the only people who ever cure of it, are ones that get their stuff together in the several places in life they forgeted up. no thanks to pills.

epic meme bro

[Anthony Fuckstick]

ike why are you taking the bait lol; you know better

ike's forte is out-trolling the trolls

[SeventhSandwich]

Fundamentally, there isn't any easy way to diagnose depression besides using a series of targeted questions. That being said, there are quantifiable differences in brain structure, activity, and chemistry in people with depression.

The questionnaire approach to diagnosis is understandably a lot less accurate than something like a blood test or genetic screening. What we consider to just be 'major depression' could easily be a multitude of different brain conditions that we don't entirely understand. Who knows?

[Gamefandan]

there is no example of people being helped on antidepressants. they all just claim "it makes it less worse" when really its just a placebo on that. they still constantly are depressed all the loving time.

the only people who ever cure of it, are ones that get their stuff together in the several places in life they forgeted up. no thanks to pills.

Personally, I didn’t used to feel the difference with my antidepressants; however, the one time I went off of them my family (specifically my mother) was able to “tell”. I think now I realize that it helps me come out of moodswings faster and helps prevent moodswings in general.

[Metario]

no person with depression will pass up an opportunity to tell you about it and earn themselves some "excuse from succeeding in life" points.
and take their drugs that dont even work because no one has ever been helped by antidepressants.

honestly you’re classifying the people who actually suffer it with the tumblrettes who need an excuse for why they can’t succeed. there’s a difference, and, quite honestly, if you use a mental disorder (well, exceptions here) as an excuse, you’re probably already a stuffty person.

yeah, you’re right, though. antidepressants are not a magic pill that will immediately make you happy. that isn’t the point of them, though. they’re more of meant to make you stable enough so you can get your life in order, not to make you happy and positive constantly.

there is no example of people being helped on antidepressants. they all just claim "it makes it less worse" when really its just a placebo on that. they still constantly are depressed all the loving time.

the only people who ever cure of it, are ones that get their stuff together in the several places in life they forgeted up. no thanks to pills.

even if it’s a placebo, the point of them is to, one way or another, help you get your stuff together by making you happier and feel less stuffty. in the case of SSRIs, they restore the serotonin balance in your brain to normal levels so you feel more stable, and have less breakdowns, which helps a ton when you’re trying to get your stuff together.
again, they’re not magic happy pills where you can immediately notice the effects. it’s subtle.