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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing, sink or swim. Kids in my generation were out of the house at age 18.[/quote]

Depression is an illness. Would you say the same thing about a young adult with another severe illness? [/quote]

FWIW, OP did not say he was evaluated for depression. It's just OP's diagnosis but honestly, if he really were depressed, he wouldnt be on his phone or laptop! To me, it just sounds like laziness. He knows that his parents are there for him so why bother to make any effort?[/quote]

Are you the quoted PP? [/quote]

And why do you assume her DS doesn’t have an official diagnosis. He’s been in therapy before, so he has a history of something related to mental health.

If someone posts that their kid has diabetes, so you assume a doctor diagnosed it or would you think OP assumed her child has diabetes because they pee a lot and like candy?

Also, read up about depression and mental health in general. Depression doesn’t always look like grief or mourning. It’s not a Victorian era romance novel where someone is jilted and falls into a dysfunctional melancholy. Depression frequently looks like anger or low/no energy (aka laziness), and slips through the cracks because it’s not the misconceived presentation of tears, wearing black, withering away from not eating or some undefined wasting syndrome. Depression is different from sadness. [/quote]

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