Recently they did discuss some news about the fact that the singer Vasco Rossi would be treated for psychiatric problems, after which the declarations on the fact that the problem is not recent but dating back to many years ago, and that on this occasion as in others, psychiatric treatment helped.
http://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2011/08/07/news/un_gesto_d_amore_per_i_giovani_fan_la_detente_non_una_vergogna-20129339/
http://www.vanityfair.it/people/italia/2011/08/06/vasco-rossi-detente- drugs-facebook
(… a few days after leaving the Bolognese clinic in Villalba, Vasco Rossi returns to talking about health. And he tells his truth: “I have been taking (for some time) a cocktail of antidepressants, psychotropic drugs, anxiolytics, vitamins and more, studied by a team of doctors, which keeps me in this acceptable “balance” “, writes the rocker in a message entitled” I take advantage of your patience … “and published on his Facebook page last night at 11.07. Blasco thanks the doctors who they follow him, and he continues: “I would not have overcome all the awareness, the suffering and the deep depression into which I was sunk in 2001”.)
In reality, the statements do not end there, there are others of a different tenor on the official website. Either way, statements made by a famous person must put the emphasis on the disease. So some observations on the fact that depression is an easy term to communicate, because it makes the idea at least if you intend it as a black mood, but there are various forms of it.
Often people say “I don’t feel depressed”, because they identify this word with the feeling of free sadness, out of the blue, while instead in most cases the depressive feeling is a mood that therefore pervades thoughts, choices and orientations. To the depressed it seems that his greyness makes sense, derives from something, or is a moment of lucidity in which everything appears for what it really is, a nothing.
Or, it seems to him that it is the natural adaptation to the decay of things, to disappointments, the already written and inevitable ending of a story that was already tending in that direction. The depressed person tells of a depressive life.
The depressed person gives weight to the recent negative past, a weight that instead of fading with time grows and becomes a haunting beacon, a last failure that marks the end, like the last pier beyond which there is only an infinite and useless sea of ​​bitterness . From here, ideas of death can arise, lived positively, that is as a solution, but above all from the destruction of the sense of the future, of hope, and from the absence of the bite and impulse to conceive a new “idea” to live, the impression derives very strong and deeply rooted that depression is a “revelation”, that it has a meaning, that it is useless to avoid admitting it, that it is in short just the right mood for a life reduced to nothing, or inconclusive.
So think the depressed people aged 18 and 80, rich and poor,
The famous think they are leaving the stage, the municipalities are no longer able to go to work. The famous tell after their depression on television, the municipalities every now and then on the net.
The important thing to understand is to avoid the two mistakes , and to rely on others to work in this direction. In the first place the depression that seems to have been born not to end, otherwise it would not be so “total”, it can end, alone or better treated.
The first mistake is not to believe that it is a destiny, and therefore that ” it will never come out again“, even if as a thought this is a symptom of depression itself. Family and friends are very important, instead of avoiding the problem with a” try to react “, they can instead encourage treatment, patiently accompany the recovery and avoid forcing it when the person is too sick to put himself out there.
The second mistake is not to shout ” I got out of it “, “I beat depression”, “I fought depression” as if the effect (being out and feeling good) had been the tool (having had the strength to get out of it).
The strength to get out comes only after you get out, so it’s not what you need, but a cure. The exit from depression can happen in many negative ways, and they are not for the consequences of the depressive state, but also for the course of illnesses that from depressive phases spur to euphoric phases. In this sense “I will never get out of it anymore” and “I got out of it forever with my willpower” are the two sides of the same humoral error, one depressive and one euphoric.
The best advice is to have the situation assessed and to be advised both for the present and for the future, since it is a disease that often involves relapses and further aspects that must be known from the outset.
