The black dog...

[bunny_m]

naamah_darling posted an awesome, intelligent, insightful and remarkably calm post deconstructing some of the most shockingly dense comment-fail I have ever seen. Go here to read it's entire awesomeness, but I'm going to post some of my experiences here on the topic, as inspired by the above-linked post.

..why depressed people may not seek treatment.

Sometimes

Comments

[moonvoice]

It is a really amazing article, I'm so glad she's on my Flist. :)

[stephbg]

An amazing article, I read it all through and yours in detail. So much explained. Might even post a version on my blog and personalise it as you have done.

So much to say. We must find a quiet corner of Swancon for a talk.

[delicious_irony]

Yes.

Perhaps we should talk.

Never did end up having that hot beverage, did we?

[staxxy]

well said, sir.

[sheistheweather]

Yes. This.

[tanyad]

Thank you for this post... it sums up some things I'm dealing with very well. In my case, I logically know I'm depressed and even have mild meds to deal with it, but I don't like acknowledging it at all.

I...it's a long story but there's an element of shame and feeling like a failure in admitting that I'm depressed. I'll probably post more in my LJ but this sparked some deep thoughts on the topic. Mind if I reference/copy pasta parts of this in my post?

[bunny_m]

Of course you may use parts of this post. In fact, my general take is that anything is free to be re-used/linked to if it's a public post, without need to ask. If it's a flocked post, then ask away and I probably still wouldn't mind.