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Originally Posted by Phoenix_1
Three weeks ago my friend was sad about something her daughter did and said to me on the phone: "Oh, I'm so depressed". So I told her I was at the hospital every day for 7 weeks being treated for depression by a doctor and RPN's. She changed her tune. Now she's only "upset".
People don't have a clue how they sound or what they say. The use psych terms out of context and it's because they don't have a clue what those terms actually mean. Some people even think they're funny when they use them - stay well clear of them. They have a psych problem themselves and it's not bipolar.
And someone rationalizing your situation - stay well clear of them too. I went to a woman's shelter in 1981 because my husband was extremely emotionally abusive and I couldn't take it any more - I was a wreck. And they told me, he doesn't hit me, so I should be ok. Not true. Rationalization doesn't help, it hurts.
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You know there people can be depressed without being clinically depressed. Like if someone loses a job or has problems with their kids they can be depressed and then the depression goes away with the situation changes. So you're friend may have legitimately been depressed but a different kind of depression that what we deal with.
I had some stuff happen and I got depressed, but my therapist told me it was normal depression and we just had to see if it triggered a depressive episode (which it did), but if I didn't have bipolar disorder I would have been deprssed and then felt better later.