Speaking as someone who has tried every SSRI from Prosac right up until Celexa I can say that interest in anything (books, movies, television, anything) is a contraindication for a diagnosis of unipolar-depression. Which is a very fancy-pants way of saying that if you can be actively interested and engaged in something that usually means that you are not clinically dressed. Of course, if you are watching movies in order to avoid social interactions (or the proverbial what-not), that's an indicator. And there's always the possibility of addiction. [To quote the immortal Dr. Cox: "I am fairly sure that if they took porn off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called Bring Back The Porn."] Excessive or uncontrollable list-making is a marker for OCD.
If you're curious about psychiatric conditions ("disorders" implies abnormality which is inaccurate and untrue) that do not rise to the standard of a clinical diagnosis then you might want to check out the brilliant John Ratey (and Catherine Johnson)'s book Shadow Syndromes . It lays out a very persuasive case for there being no fence or solid dividing line between depressed/undepressed, ADD/not-ADD, autistic/not-autistic, yada/not-yada.
It might be worth it for the ingenious deconstruction of Seinfeld alone. (You do have to read the first two chapters for it to make hilarious sense but it is an absurdly easy read.)
To use one of the citations of Dr. James Gilligan:
"If we want to understand the nature of the incident that typically produces the most intense shame...it is precisely the triviality of the incident that makes the incident so shameful...as the shame-sensitive person knows better than anyone else, only an unimportant and slight person would be vulnerable to, and upset over, an unimportant slight."
I have a very healthy social life outside of the internet, so that may account for my lack of depression. Of course, I have felt a tinge or two of depression, but who hasn't?
I was a very depressed younger teen, but it hasn't been a problem since I moved out of my parents house, which is the same time I started watching more movies.
Speaking as someone who has tried every SSRI from Prosac right up until Celexa I can say that interest in anything (books, movies, television, anything) is a contraindication for a diagnosis of unipolar-depression. Which is a very fancy-pants way of saying that if you can be actively interested and engaged in something that usually means that you are not clinically dressed. Of course, if you are watching movies in order to avoid social interactions (or the proverbial what-not), that's an indicator. And there's always the possibility of addiction. [To quote the immortal Dr. Cox: "I am fairly sure that if they took porn off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called Bring Back The Porn."] Excessive or uncontrollable list-making is a marker for OCD.
If you're curious about psychiatric conditions ("disorders" implies abnormality which is inaccurate and untrue) that do not rise to the standard of a clinical diagnosis then you might want to check out the brilliant John Ratey (and Catherine Johnson)'s book Shadow Syndromes . It lays out a very persuasive case for there being no fence or solid dividing line between depressed/undepressed, ADD/not-ADD, autistic/not-autistic, yada/not-yada.
It might be worth it for the ingenious deconstruction of Seinfeld alone. (You do have to read the first two chapters for it to make hilarious sense but it is an absurdly easy read.)
To use one of the citations of Dr. James Gilligan:
"If we want to understand the nature of the incident that typically produces the most intense shame...it is precisely the triviality of the incident that makes the incident so shameful...as the shame-sensitive person knows better than anyone else, only an unimportant and slight person would be vulnerable to, and upset over, an unimportant slight."
Lol, that 'Bring Back the Porn' quote is hilarious.
Ahh... escapism. A curiousity of mine for quite some time. Dangerous territory when it comes to conversation.
I have a very healthy social life outside of the internet, so that may account for my lack of depression. Of course, I have felt a tinge or two of depression, but who hasn't?
heh.
I was a very depressed younger teen, but it hasn't been a problem since I moved out of my parents house, which is the same time I started watching more movies.