This thread is Brilliant !!! ... some very touching information being exposed so i think i'll join in ... hehehe
I've never had a job and have been on DLA+IS for years, once i was on SDA! This depression thingy grabbed hold of me when i was 14 and have been in it's teeth eversince. So, after a years worth of psychiatric residential care, a couple of 'suicide' attempts and 93 therapy sessions later ... i'm still *****ed up
Trouble is, if depression isn't nipped in the bud (as it often isn't) it often leads to all sorts of other neurotic personality disorders, anxiety issues, phobia's ... the list goes on. Eventually all the problems come together and form a self-sustaining nightmare. There is also a physiological consequence on the brain too, after all, the brain and the mind are intricately linked in some kinda 60's love fest 'active feedback loop'!
So, does depression warrent more attention?... abso'*****ing'lutely