Comments for Depression Support Network

Comment on Earthquake Update by Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:50:57 +0000

Sorry about delayed reply, groups are up and running again, I assume you will have been contacted by your facilitators about this.

Comment on Earthquake Update by Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:17:05 +0000

So, can we assume that this item will be updated when groups begin again?

Comment on Sleeping in helps Depression? by Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:11:56 +0000

glad you guys found it helpful! All the best convincing your school tim

Comment on Sleeping in helps Depression? by Tim

Tim — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:44:54 +0000

Thanks for this info! I’m going to try and convice my school now

Comment on Sleeping in helps Depression? by charshaw

charshaw — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:09:45 +0000

Thanks Nath – I found this very interesting!

Comment on The Mediterranean Diet by Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:44:30 +0000

Excellent point of clarification, when we see a correlation like this, we can’t conclude that the diet caused depression to get better. One would need some sort of experiment where people were assigned to different diets, and look at how people did after consuming various diets. I’m not aware of such a study (- if anyone does, let me know!), so in the meantime we’re left to deal with correlational research like the above, and are left to draw our own conclusions.
My own thought is that even if a healthy lifestyle (including healthy eating, exercise and the like) doesn’t help mental health, I’d be really surprised if it was harmful to mental health, and it’s going to have a number of other health benefits. So I try to eat healthy when I can.

Comment on The Mediterranean Diet by Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:58:31 +0000

this was a cohort study so proof it isn’t proof of causation. Just because those that stuck to a Mediterranean diet doesn’t mean the diet caused less depression. It says that those who stuck to the diet were more likely to be male (males are less likely to be depressed), and were more physically active ( higher physical activity is definitely anti-depressive). so it may have nothing to do with the diet. Furthermore happier people tend to look after themselves better than depressed people including eating better. so the causal relationship might be the other way round. the only way we will ever know is by good quality clinical trials.

Comment on Listening to Depression by sue

sue — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:07:06 +0000

Thankyou so much this has helped me to see that it is my circumstances that are creating my depression …………………need to change them

Comment on Topic Evening: Men and Depression by MichaellaS

MichaellaS — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:13:29 +0000

tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!

Comment on A cultural perspective on Depression by Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:56:33 +0000

Hi Marco
Cheers for the comment – Sorry it’s taken me a bit to approve the comment and reply to it – I’ve been on holiday, and hadn’t been checking the site regularly, and for some reason I didn’t get e-mailed when your comment came through, something I’m looking into.

Yeah, theories, while they often don’t cover everything still can be useful, they give us ways to think about things, and helpful suggestions for things that can have an impact. And you’re right – one of the difficult things about depression is that being depressed makes it harder to find a way to deal with depression. Sometimes it can feel like a catch-22? But I guess the reason why we make suggestions is that even though it’s difficult, they’re something to do, maybe we can’t do it just now, but maybe when we’re feeling slightly better or more motivated, we can give them a try. And sometimes people find a new perspective makes it slightly easier.

Thanks again for the comment, hope things are going well, I hope to pop on over and have a look at your blog when I get the time