In my case, I think there really isn't anything one could do. Trying to get me to talk about it won't help; there isn't anything to talk about.
I'm amused that Ian posted this now. In the interval between the last time I read LJ this morning and now, I was thinking of having a discussion very similar to that with someone I know who is clearly exhibiting all the signs of depression and (as far as I know) doing nothing about it. And probably won't, even if I suggest it, because, well, when you're depressed you don't want to *do* anything. Depression isn't happy, but it's comfortable, and it's all too easy to rationalize not doing anything unless there's someone in your life with sufficient clout to drag you to a doctor and make you take the drugs he prescribes, or some event in your life that kicks you into doing something (it was 9/11/01 for me).
And I was going to post about that frustration, but here is as good a place as my journal. (The person of whom I'm thinking doesn't read either, so far as I know.)
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Date: 2004-09-09 09:33 am (UTC)I'm amused that Ian posted this now. In the interval between the last time I read LJ this morning and now, I was thinking of having a discussion very similar to that with someone I know who is clearly exhibiting all the signs of depression and (as far as I know) doing nothing about it. And probably won't, even if I suggest it, because, well, when you're depressed you don't want to *do* anything. Depression isn't happy, but it's comfortable, and it's all too easy to rationalize not doing anything unless there's someone in your life with sufficient clout to drag you to a doctor and make you take the drugs he prescribes, or some event in your life that kicks you into doing something (it was 9/11/01 for me).
And I was going to post about that frustration, but here is as good a place as my journal. (The person of whom I'm thinking doesn't read either, so far as I know.)