Comments on: Don’t Smile when Depressed and Dancing with Strippers

By: Enough Already

Enough Already — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:50:10 +0000

Work can be an integral part of therapy for some psychiatric disorders. Research data claims that those who are absent on medical from three to six months greatly increase their inability to ever report for work on a regular basis.

If workplace situations contribute to an illness, the physician should be working with those in the workplace to correct or minimize those situations. However, work usually isn’t the culprit; it’s usually situations and interactions outside of work. Caring for parents and/or young children and/or teens with medical or other problems and/or post-secondary education all become very hard — if not impossible — to do if you have to report to an employer’s place of business from 9 to 5.

If you take time off to take care of your personal matters, you lose pay. No, wait, if you can get your physician to claim “Depression” or “Anxiety” or both, you can have at least two years off until the insurance company shifts you over from “own job” to “any job” category.

Most physicians act as advocates or they blindly regugitate whatever their patient says (ie. I’m not well enough to return to work.) That’s not good enough.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:35:06 +0000

After a year and a half you feel that you are not too depressed to frolic on a southern beach, fool around with a stipper and party party party but you are TOO depressed to show up at work.
Sorry Princess but did you really think that you are Paris Hilton and would get paid to party for the rest of you life?
Unfortunately your irresponsible acting will cause problems for people who are seriously depressed but really do try to get back to work as quickly as possible.

By: Stop Anxiety

Stop Anxiety — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:36:50 +0000

Regardless of whether or not she smiled or not isn’t the issue. You can be smiling and still be depressed. Most people depressed can still smile, but are most likely faking it and are not necessarily feeling the happy emotions that actually make a smile.. This is the difficulty with being depressed and just one happy moment doesn’t change the fact that she is still depressed and on sick leave. Most depressed seek out extremes to try and get a natural emotion of happiness. Even then, one happy time doesn’t solve the problem. Accepting the present moment with a sense of gratefulness daily will help transition depression back to a more level emotional playing field.