well, personally I reckon theres a lot of arrogant and frankly, disgustingly ignorant people discussing depression at the moment. while its easy for people to look at it and think "yeah! right" and consider it merely a trend, you know theres a lot of people who suffer depression for real. Depression is something i'm sure we've all experienced at some point in our lives, whether it is the death of a member of our family or a friend (grief) or if its just having a low day (crap). There's nothing black and white about it, what might get me upset for example, won't bother other people. and vice versa. I don't believe that just because someone can say "I am depressive" as a medical statement means that they are the only one with the right to be depressed. There are many different levels of depression. Sometimes depression is a lot deeper and sometimes it passes by with time, depending upon the situation and circumstances. And I certainly don't think that its a term that people who suffer it on a medical level use lightly to make themselves sound "profound". In fact, I can't really imagine why anyone would say it to make themselves sound profound or interesting. So if you really want to discuss this, at least have a little thought for what you're discussing and the people who you so arrogantly dismiss for saying they have depression. Whether its about being medically depressed or being depressed on a level thats not quite so dark, its not a subject that should be treated so flipantly. Thanks. ===== visit the idle site:http://www.geocities.com/idleberry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+