Depression and PTSD from facilities

[Anonymous]

Here are two great resource links:

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/ptsdmenu.cfm


Depression
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformati ... onmenu.cfm

[katfish]

Ginger said something interesting"

"And I dared not make any meaningful connection with non Seedlings either."

So, for a long time I felt isolated and alone and perpetuated it b/c not only had a not been able to exercise normal socializing skills, but all the psychological coercion started to mess with me...I thought everything was bad and evil that did not fit the program- which was like an extension of AA, but of course worse b/c it was 12 steps based so I feared alcohol, pot, etc AND typical teen things like wearing clothes that at the school were considered an 'image' and feared just in general other kids b/c of what I might 'slip back' into...  My point is, all that anxiety, fear and isolation contributed to me feeling depressed.

PLus the nightmares of being sent back were hard to get through initially...fearing people are wathcing you- not in a schizophrenic sense, but that people are going to be able to read me and think I'm 'fucked up'..and b/c fucked up was what was not the program, which was mostly  normal stuff I was left unsure and doubting EVERYTHING.  ugh, I still have that a lot, it makes life difficult.  Maybe I will start exercising...rugby, eh?  I like the martial arts approach.  Thanks for the ideas!

best- kat

[Anonymous]

On 2006-02-21 04:29:00, sorry... try another castle wrote:

"I'm pretty sure that you can't get clinical depression from an experience. I'm sure a traumatic event can exacerbate the problem, though, or bring about an episode.



Obviously, PTSD is different.
"

Yes, you can get an episode of depression from an experience or event.  To call it "clinical depression" merely means that it meets the criteria in the DSM-IV for an episode of depression.

Anyone can have an episode of clinical depression in response to life events.

"Major depression" is different.  Major depression is when a patient has multiple, chronic, recurring episodes of clinical depression through their lifetime.

"Major depression" can also have its initial episode come in response to an experience or event, or subsequent episodes can be triggered by an experience or event.

Clinical depression means, among other things, that the symptoms persist for three weeks to six months.  For some unknown reason, episodes of depression do not seem to last more than six months at a whack.  Go figure.

Psychologists believe that people who develop major depression have a combination of a genetic vulnerability and some environmental triggering factor.

Anyway, yes, an otherwise psychologically normal person can have a one-off episode of clinical depression result from a sufficiently traumatic experience or event.

Julie

[Anonymous]

That's what they taught us in school, anyway.  There's so much research in abnormal psychology all the time that how they classify things and describe things changes.

Julie

[try another castle]

Thanks for clarifying that. It makes a lot of sense. I was confusing clinical depression with major depression.

[Anonymous]

Wow, looking back at my experience at Provo Canyon, I keep remembering and realizing things, and the picture looks worse and worse.

I recall that my main diagnosis was "major depression" or "depression, major".  

The fact is, I had never had any sort of chronic depression, nor recurring depression, nor serious depressive episodes.  

Nor did I ever state that I had experienced these symptoms.

I don't understand how they could have actually come up with this diagnosis for me.  

Sure, I rebelled against my parents sometimes, didn't want to go to Catholic church, hung out with people my mother didn't approve of, and skipped class sometimes because I found it boring.  But real, clinical depression?  No way!  Not even close.

[bandit1978]

That last post was from me.