de·pres·sion/diˈpreSHən/Noun
1. Severe despondency and dejection, accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy.
2. A condition of mental disturbance, typically with lack of energy and difficulty in maintaining concentration or interest in life.
It wouldn't piss me off so much if the word wasn't misused so often, and the concept wasn't so alien to people. "handicap" isn't the same type of concept because "handicap" actually has quite a few meanings, and "mentally handicapped" denotes specificity. "Depression" is constantly being used as some sort of umbrella term, when it's not. It's not an brown townogy, and I'm not pissed off that you're "offending the depressed" or some bullstuff.
So therefore when I call someone a stupid cigarette I'm saying they are an unintelligent cigarette?
"Depression" is constantly being used as some sort of umbrella term, when it's not. It's not an brown townogy, and I'm not pissed off that you're "offending the depressed" or some bullstuff.
No, it's used as an brown townogy. And yes you are pissed that I'm, "offending" them because no one would bitch this much about questionable grammar/context.
Observe:
the definition of an brown townogy is:
a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
Sadness is a symptom of depression. The person writing his/her post wants to really drive the point that they are sad. So they use the word, "Depressed" to help really assure people that their sadness is deep.
Why the forget does this piss you off again? If you're depressed, I have no clue why using your word as an brown townogy prompts you to receive some type of negative feedback from it. I'm getting this feeling that you're only responding to this to put attention on yourself so you receive pity. In which case you should leave the thread so it can go on with it's natural discussion topic.
