would have been more realistic if he had any reason at all to be depressed. yeah i know it's a chemical thing, i have it, and more.. i can usually find at least ONE thing to sympathize with when it comes to someone being depressed and having fewer problems than myself but he was just a normal kid seriously. it was a waste of the hospital's time to deal with this kid. he was whiny and i couldn't stop saying "pansy" everytime he came on screen.
sharelol you clearly know nothing about depression
shareEach person's level of clinical depression is different. As for Craig, he wasn't planning on being admitted. he wanted a quick fix, maybe some fast acting medicine. When he begged to the ER doctor, the doctor agreed to admit him. Craig's admittance was totally a surprise to Craig. Remember that he said that to Dr. Minerva when he first go there.
shareHe's there because he's not capable of dealing with it all. It isn't just mental, he physically was incapable of it. He needed to find out that the expectations thrust upon him wasn't a cage he was locked in, that there were other things in life he hadn't discovered yet.
shareNo Craig is there because he's an idiot who stopped taking his antidepressants and never told anyone until he finally went to hospital. Mind you this was after months of him dreaming about killing himself, so no there is no reason to feel sorry for Craig or even care about him, because this movie is nothing but wish fulfillment. He goes from not knowing what he wants to do, no girl and being a nobody to being the most popular kid in school and the hospital, having two girls fighting for him and oh yeah his epiphany that he wants to become an architect after he discovered his drawing skills.
shareI concur to an extent — several ppl I know stop meds abruptly.. stupid thing to do, however, one doesn't have to be an idiot to commit idiotic acts.. especially not those that have to do with mental illnesses.
sharePeople don't stop taking medication because they're idiots. They do it because they feel better and healthy, they honestly believe they don't need it anymore and they want to feel normal again. Nobody wants to be the person who needs pills just to feel right, especially with the stigma attached to mental problems. They feel ashamed that they need this so they jump at the possibly of being healthy, not needing the medication and they stop taking it.
shareSometimes people confuse situational sadness with depression.
People who know about and/or experience clinical depression know (should know) the difference.
'Craig' not only was admitted with depression, but with anxiety (depression and anxiety frequently go hand-in-hand), 'stress vomiting', and suicidal ideation. Really not a waste of time to admit someone manifesting these symptoms and disorders.
I myself was cruising through life fine in my early 20's until I got hit by my first panic attack. Totally out of the blue, brought me literally to my knees, and nothing in my immediate environment to connect it to (which made it scarier). During the course of a year, I showed up at hospital emergency rooms probably a good 5 or 6 times, thinking I was having some kind of heart attack. I endured all kinds of medical tests all for naught. I finally was told my then daily panic attacks were 'all in my head' and to see a psychiatrist for ‘insight therapy’.
Ha! For someone like me who prior to this was very healthy, in-shape, on top of my game, and of very strong character, being 'all in my head' (mentally) just didn't ring true. Now, this is before Anxiety Disorder became a nightly infomercial. I thought I was literally going crazy and so did close friends and family members, until I finally received a true diagnosis, found ways to manage my attacks and thankfully I haven't had one now for a few years. I also tracked back through my family history and found that women on my mother's side of the family had manifested undiagnosed symptoms of adult-onset anxiety disorder, going back at least 3 generations (that I could find).
For several months, I hoped and prayed that I would one day go back to feeling like I had before my Anxiety Disorder as the ticking timebomb it was finally 'went off'. However, I am not 'cured', but I do find ways to 'manage'.
The body is a machine. Something goes out of balance and we can experience symptoms of an imbalance, whether it is hormonal, electrical, chemical, a combination, or whatever.
You can't just 'will' or 'smile' away an imbalance/disease, regardless if it is clinical depression or diabetes or cancer.
And, it has nothing to do with being of weak character.
If you don’t say something about it, you live with it in scared silence and sometimes undeserved shame because of the stigma that can be attached to it – being looked at or talked about as someone being ‘weak’, ‘crazy’, ‘whiny’ – pick the pejorative.
People who suffer chronic pain (another malady that for some sufferers does not show up conveniently on some medical test and that is often diagnosed based sheerly on patient report) go through similar indignities, disbelief, and the blame-the-sufferer attitudes of some folks.
Not good....
"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than..a rude remark or a vulgar action" Blanche DuBois
Did anyone here ever read The Catcher in the Rye and/or The Perks of Being a Wallflower? Enough said.
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He was going to attempt suicide. That is not pansie and, as I'm sure others would agree, the hospital was right to take in someone begging to be admitted and saying that they wanted to kill themselves!!
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