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Sparks.
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'Careful with those electro-shock paddles, Eugene.'
'g, mate… this unhappiness of yours is a bit much, and going on a long time… are you sure it's not depression, and that you shouldn't be getting pills from the doc?'
Ah, the joy of my mental health crisis. I don't know.
I wasn't intending to write this… which, in an overlong ramble, provides clear and appropriate elaboration on stuff recently noted here. And, when done, I'm going to get off the subject and not write more about it. If it wasn't so important, I wouldn't note it in such detail. But it is, and so I do.
And, relevant to whether a post such as this is appropriate on a business site… the situation significantly affects my commercial activities, and that's why it's noted here—for information, not sympathy.
It would certainly be relevant to a business partner or close collaborator; anybody else, I'm not so sure. But it's not a decision I have to make.
Anyway…
I'm not smart enough to understand the whole 'is it depression, or simply temporary sadness?' thing.
I get that some things are a temporary emotional reaction to a sad event, and that other things are a symptom of an illness (depression) in which the brain is structurally and chemically affected and causes persistent low mood. I'm also aware of the possibility that a 'temporary emotional reaction to a sad event' can apparently lead to the illness of depression. But that's as far as my knowledge goes.
In my own case, various 'sad events' are ongoing in my life… and so consequently is the associated 'temporary emotional reaction'.
Would I benefit from 'prozac, please' pharmaceutical assistance? I don't know, I honestly don't. And I no longer remember much about the times in my life when I have requested anti-depressants, and whether they were effective. Maybe they were, or perhaps the 'temporary emotional reaction to a sad event' was alleviated by that sad event simply ending.
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