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Originally Posted by Fuzzybear
".. it is a commonly noted aspect of the experience of depression that we are involved in the question of guilt, the issue of our wrongdoing, our sin. To reconceptualize the condition as an illness is one way of reordering our view of it so that the issue of responsibility and guilt does not arise either in our minds or in the minds of our relatives and friends".
Dorothy Rowe
any thoughts?
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You have to work it out in your own mind. There's also the question of the outside world. "Illness" is something people believe or they don't. I don't worry about whether it's an illness or not; I just know it is, which is something my family never figured out. (If family support is key, I'm s.o.l.) Sometimes I just think it's best not to worry about labelling and just deal with it -- try to put the "fun" back in dysfunction and all that -- but you have to deal with labels, because the outside world does, too. So does "illness" do us any favors or not? I don't know.