Bruce was very wise. I wonder what happened to him.

From: Bruce - view profile
Date: Sun, Jan 20 2002 8:35 pm
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"RGB" wrote in message

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> altamir...@yahoo.com wrote:
> ... and then you go do the thing, and, amazingly enough, you wind up
> feeling better and being glad you did it.

If you think performing a task, any task, will have any lasting effect on a
person suffering from clinical depression, then you've missed the entire
point of clinical depression.
Clinical depression usually cause a serious mood disorder. As such, the
emotions and moods aren't functioning as you would expect or predict.
They're broken. The things we normally would find joy in doing, provide no
joy at all. In fact, that's one of the questions on a depression test,
whether you're depressed even when doing things that would normally make you
feel good.

Their moods can't be more than momentarily improved, because the mood
controls are busted. If you try to apply the rules of normal behavior to
those suffering from this illness, you will never understand it.

Telling a depressed person to feel better, is like telling you to ignore the
pain of a fire.

Bruce.