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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I grew up with a sibling who suffered severe depression (attempted suicide)...and I've also been treated clinically for depression.

I think our society is very sick emotionally, and we have little to no outlets to help people process difficult emotions. Because of this, extreme emotions fester into clinical, long-term pathologies. I think historically, more people had access to faith leaders, extended family, close knit communities to help them in times of need. This isn't to say that clinical depression and anxiety didn't exist, but, despite statistics being difficult to come by, I don't think it was as common as it is now.

I think historically we had better ways of dealing with common forms of loss and trauma, so people's responses to these things didn't result in long-term issues. Also, our healthcare system would rather medicate everything than provide things like talk-therapy and counseling. For myself, I think that if I had been provided a stronger support system to process my sibling's suicide attempt, I doubt I'd have spiraled into a deeper clinical depression. In fact, finally processing that event is what helped me, not the medications I was prescribed.[/quote]

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