I don't know if anyone else is feeling this--I'm too depressed to ask--but I find it bizarre to go about my day-to-day life as if nothing tragic is concurrently happening.
Lloyd-Williams and colleagues (Lawrie et al, 2004) found that among consultants working in palliative medicine, 10% asked the patient 'are you depressed' to detect depression.
Listen to their calls, find out if they are depressed, try not to ask them over the phone, just find out.
I asked him, "How depressed are you?" He replied, "Do I look depressed to you?" I said, "Not a bit". It's just one of those things where, whoever is stewing up this anti-Johnny Depp thing, I don't get it.
Or if they're depressed, don't be afraid to ask if they've considered harming themselves.
In a study by Martin Seligman, a leader in the field of positive psychology, people who considered themselves severely depressed were asked to write down three good things that happened each day for 15 days.
"Depressing to the value," he added.
Indeed, there were no significant differences in these frequencies between the three subpopulations (depressed at the time of the survey, not depressed at the time of the survey but with a past history of depression, and never depressed but asked about a hypothetical episode), which enables us to report overall figures.
When the interview aroused the usual smattering of ill-informed comments, Alastair Campbell tweeted rather brilliantly: "To those asking what @stephenfry has to be depressed about, would you ask what someone has to be cancerous, diabetic or asthmatic about?" Monday marked the beginning of Men's Health Week, and the theme this year is challenging the stigma of mental health.
Each time the man complained of feeling depressed, Trunnell asked him what he intended to do about it.
The first time I went to her I was really depressed, and asked her if she thought God was punishing me for my sins.
