Re: Depression, Harrassment, etc. (WAS: RE: What a predicament!)

[surfer924 -at- ameritech -dot- net]

<<....I find *that* depressing. Our society shouldn't be so wimpy...
....Spend your month doing volunteer work with the physically/mentally
handicapped. You'll learn what a disability really is.....>>

It's easy for someone who has never had to deal with depression to 
characterize it as something less than a "real" disability. Having dealt 
with chronic depression for 5+ years I know better. Dealing with a 
condition that makes the most simple and routine tasks seem like a 
herculean effort while enduring the scorn and ridicule of those too 
ignorant or uncaring to recognize someone with a disability is hardly 
wimpy. I've never heard someone tell a paraplegic to get his lazy butt out 
of bed and quit feeling sorry for himself, nor have I ever seen mentally 
retarded person being told to "snap out of it." I suppose compassion is 
reserved for those with disabilities that can be seen.



 



 

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