Black Relationships : Major Depressive Disorder

[jamesfrmphilly]

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), is characterized by a severely depressed mood that persists for at least two weeks. Major Depressive Disorder is specified as either "a single episode" or "recurrent"; periods of depression may occur as discrete events or recur over the lifespan. Episodes of major or clinical depression may be further divided into mild, major or severe. Where the patient has already had an episode of mania or markedly elevated mood, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder (also called bipolar affective disorder) is usually made instead of MDD; depression without periods of elation or mania is therefore sometimes referred to as unipolar depression because the mood remains on one pole. The diagnosis also usually excludes cases where the symptoms are a normal result of bereavement. Diagnosticians recognize several possible subtypes of Major Depressive Disorder.

Depression with Melancholic Features - Melancholia is characterized by a loss of pleasure (anhedonia) in most or all activities, a failure of reactivity to pleasurable stimuli, a quality of depressed mood more pronounced than that of grief or loss, a worsening of symptoms in the morning hours, early morning waking, psychomotor retardation, anorexia (excessive weight loss, not to be confused with Anorexia Nervosa), or excessive guilt.

Depression with Atypical Features - Atypical Depression is characterized by mood reactivity (paradoxical anhedonia) and positivity, significant weight gain or increased appetite, excessive sleep or somnolence (hypersomnia), leaden paralysis, or significant social impairment as a consequence of hypersensitivity to perceived interpersonal rejection. Contrary to its name, atypical depression is the most common form of depression.

Depression with Psychotic Features - Some people with Major Depressive or Manic episode may experience psychotic features. They may be presented with hallucinations or delusions that are either mood-congruent (content coincident with depressive themes) or non-mood-congruent (content not coincident with depressive themes). It is clinically more common to encounter a delusional system as an adjunct to depression than to encounter hallucinations, whether visual or auditory.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

we all got it.........

it is my theory that ALL black people suffer from depression. certainly all black people in America do.
it may be more or less severe but we all show symptoms. it is quite common and at the same time totally undiagnosed and untreated. look around you.
we accept depressive behavior as normal in our community. we say ******* ain't ****, all the time.
we are actually referring to untreated depressive behavior.

we need to separate out the mental illness and call it what it is. it is illness. it is NOT us.

it's like you see a brother limping. you say "he ain't no good". but maybe the cat has a blister. that is why he is limping.
if you treat the blister and let it heal, he could be out playing football.

we need to stop accepting these illnesses as being a natural part of ourselves.

 

[Goddess Auset333]

Beloved Mighty warrior JFP:


Thank you beloved brother for not allowing your EGO to get in the way to discuss these vital and essential issues concerning us and our mental stability.

We must not cease discussing these countless issues within the Black Afrikans.

As we are doing so, we are freeing ourself first, and as we free ourselves we can help others break free of these Nooses within us.

We must be on a constant and consistent mission consciously/subconsciously cleaning out the debris/garbage within us, so that we can communicate with each other Telepathically.

JFP: it is my theory that ALL black people suffer from depression. certainly all black people in America do. it may be more or less severe but we all show symptoms.


My mother had a vision showing her nothing but Black Body Bags. I haven't been able to interpret that . Maybe metasaience if he enters this thread will be able to shed some light on that.

Chief Osiris wrote a missive I think over a year ago stating that there need to be a Suicide watch on Black people.

During my Spiritual Counseling with others, most people have mentioned suicide.

I found out through my once mild depression that we must fully examine depression to find out, just like pain, what depression is saying to us. I realized that like all negativity, depression was a tool and a weapon to test what I am made of. The quicksand of depression is designed to take us under. Its presence is to beat and defeat me. When our Cosmic Ancestors showed me the purpose of negativities, I made a conscious decision to not allow it to defeat me, and I fought consciously tooth and nail to get out of it, because I realized I am better than any depression. I realized that there was something Divinely waiting for me beyond depression and all other negativity once I pass these negative obstacles.

When I did not know better, I did not do better. When I learned about Betterment, I began to heal Divinely. Now depression knows not to come up against the BEST/Betterment within me, the same Best/Betterment I now do what I can to help our people achieve, by openly sharing my own experience, and pointing out in them what they need to remove in them for the Betterment of themselves and us all. Depression is a Energy Snagger.

We should do everything we know to stay out of doctors offices. Can we vision a person who is sick going into a Doctors office, and nothing wrong with them being able to speak, and they sit there before the doctor silently not describing their symptoms to the doctor. A doctor can not administer treatment until she/he knows from us what our symptoms are. When we do not speak up/out and address our conditions, the doctors will add more to our depressive state by giving us anti-depression medication which only treats the conditions, not heal the conditions. The doctors will also when we do not cooperate will see a mental problem, and we wake up in the Funny Farm, and we wonder how we got there. Speechless got us there. Silence is a Killer.

To be a Great pretender that nothing is wrong, is like acting like a Bag of Chip and the Dip which is played out.

Our being speechless and silent to each other is a Killer. All Dis-Unity needs to be openly address among us, so we can Be A We people, and We can consciously/subconsciously collectively get what is Divinely right Ours, and that is Our Birthright to Be in our Divine Right minds-set. No better place to be like Home, Our Divine right Home-Minds that is.

Those among us who are healing or been healed, turns back to those who are still sick to let them know that they are going down the wrong path that leads to death if they do not address their conditions, and allow others in to show them the way towards the Path that leads to Life-Living.

We as Black Afrikan people are not in our Once Divine Natural environment (Conscious/Subconscious) and when we are in a Profane environment unconsious and this system, all kinds of hellishness will be in us. depression and all that is not Harmony. Order, Balance is unnatural.

WE must (action) word By all means necessary break free form these Nooses, chains, Shackles...and the likes of that is wrapped around our mind like a serpent.

That is another reason we see Snakes mentalities in people. They have a Warped Serpent mind-set.

I will always have Compassion for Sick people.

Here is loving Truth/Afrika.

 

[cherryblossom]

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), is characterized by a severely depressed mood that persists for at least two weeks. Major Depressive Disorder is specified as either "a single episode" or "recurrent"; periods of depression may occur as discrete events or recur over the lifespan. Episodes of major or clinical depression may be further divided into mild, major or severe. Where the patient has already had an episode of mania or markedly elevated mood, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder (also called bipolar affective disorder) is usually made instead of MDD; depression without periods of elation or mania is therefore sometimes referred to as unipolar depression because the mood remains on one pole. The diagnosis also usually excludes cases where the symptoms are a normal result of bereavement. Diagnosticians recognize several possible subtypes of Major Depressive Disorder.

Depression with Melancholic Features - Melancholia is characterized by a loss of pleasure (anhedonia) in most or all activities, a failure of reactivity to pleasurable stimuli, a quality of depressed mood more pronounced than that of grief or loss, a worsening of symptoms in the morning hours, early morning waking, psychomotor retardation, anorexia (excessive weight loss, not to be confused with Anorexia Nervosa), or excessive guilt.

Depression with Atypical Features - Atypical Depression is characterized by mood reactivity (paradoxical anhedonia) and positivity, significant weight gain or increased appetite, excessive sleep or somnolence (hypersomnia), leaden paralysis, or significant social impairment as a consequence of hypersensitivity to perceived interpersonal rejection. Contrary to its name, atypical depression is the most common form of depression.

Depression with Psychotic Features - Some people with Major Depressive or Manic episode may experience psychotic features. They may be presented with hallucinations or delusions that are either mood-congruent (content coincident with depressive themes) or non-mood-congruent (content not coincident with depressive themes). It is clinically more common to encounter a delusional system as an adjunct to depression than to encounter hallucinations, whether visual or auditory.

Eh....Many people, men and women, have experienced Depression at some point in their lives, to greater or lesser degrees.

....especially after some particularly disappointing episode in their lives...loss of job, not getting a job, end of a relationship, etc..

...However, it is important to recognize Depression for what it is and to combat it with positive treatment so that it won't fester and become debilitating and destructive in one's life.

Most women will have a good cry, get a pint/gallon of ice cream or some chocolate or sumpn and then come back out "fighting" later.....lol....We just shouldn't wallow in it.

It's okay to throw yourself a little "pity party" every-now-and-then.

Just make sure that it's a "LITTLE" one that has a definite ENDING POINT.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

Eh....Many people, men and women, have experienced Depression at some point in their lives, to greater or lesser degrees.

....especially after some particularly disappointing episode in their lives...loss of job, not getting a job, end of a relationship, etc..

...However, it is important to recognize Depression for what it is and to combat it with positive treatment so that it won't fester and become debilitating and destructive in one's life.

Most women will have a good cry, get a pint/gallon of ice cream or some chocolate or sumpn and then come back out "fighting" later.....lol....We just shouldn't wallow in it.

It's okay to throw yourself a little "pity party" every-now-and-then.

Just make sure that it's a "LITTLE" one that has a definite ENDING POINT.

this indicates a lack of understanding of what depression is actualy about.
depression is not a thing that you shake with ice cream.
it is a serious illness.

i have suffered from depression much of my life.
black people need to take depression seriously.