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Stone Age Lifestyle: The Depression Cure
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 281168" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>The Amish, who live very simple lives, experience depression and bipolar. In fact, bipolar is studied because it's easy to trace hereditary in their culture. </p><p></p><p>As one who has suffered a serious mood disorder, and who had relatives way back when who have, I personally feel there was always depression, and that it was just never diagnosed (kind of like Aspergers and Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified/autism). The more you know about it, the more you see it. I believe it's hereditary, biological, and unrelated to lifestyle. Some of the most amazing people, who have gone through the mill, and live high stress lifestyles are very upbeat and optimistic and I envy them. Some Amish are severely depressed. </p><p></p><p>I think situational depression is higher in high pressure areas (Japan, with so much stress on high achieving, once had the highest suicide rate in the world. If a student failed college, he shamed his entire family). However, I know KNOW that situational depression is a whole different animal from clinical depression. Clinical depression is unrelated to what is going on in your life whereas situational depression makes sense with what is going on with your life. Interestingly, both can be helped by medications. Anyhooo, this is my obervation and beliefs about depression. It is certainly diagnosed more now because we are more aware.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 281168, member: 1550"] The Amish, who live very simple lives, experience depression and bipolar. In fact, bipolar is studied because it's easy to trace hereditary in their culture. As one who has suffered a serious mood disorder, and who had relatives way back when who have, I personally feel there was always depression, and that it was just never diagnosed (kind of like Aspergers and Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified/autism). The more you know about it, the more you see it. I believe it's hereditary, biological, and unrelated to lifestyle. Some of the most amazing people, who have gone through the mill, and live high stress lifestyles are very upbeat and optimistic and I envy them. Some Amish are severely depressed. I think situational depression is higher in high pressure areas (Japan, with so much stress on high achieving, once had the highest suicide rate in the world. If a student failed college, he shamed his entire family). However, I know KNOW that situational depression is a whole different animal from clinical depression. Clinical depression is unrelated to what is going on in your life whereas situational depression makes sense with what is going on with your life. Interestingly, both can be helped by medications. Anyhooo, this is my obervation and beliefs about depression. It is certainly diagnosed more now because we are more aware. [/QUOTE]
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