society is failing to understand the plight of depressed students.am i wrong?answerable question. plz answer?

[Paul]

Societies in general have always disregarded and shunned those that were different. How you see it now may be based on what is your frame of mind. For example, if you are depressed, it is possible that you just don’t see all the programs and people that are reaching out to you to help. I see society (that I am in) becoming more self reliant, less social in general. Even social media involves speaking to people over a screen such as this one. Fewer and fewer face to face conversations. All of this might be ignoring the basic fact that we are at our core a social species.

I think of it another way too. If we could put all the lonely people together in one place they would all share one thing in common, THE’RE LONELY! The question becomes how to select against those there are not lonely and are only there to take advantage of those that would be present!

You can also see on here that there continues to be a disconnect with children and parents. Many of the kids on here (Yahoo Answers) say “THEY CANNOT TELL THEIR PARENTS”! Taking the responsibility to raise kids goes beyond just saying you are a mom or dad, it means keeping a bond with one’s children and paying attention to signs in addition to what our children are telling us. If one is not capable to doing this, I would go as far as saying they should be staying away from sexual relations.

I think the challenge is to keep presenting this to everyone out there (such as what you are doing here!) I am also including another site where I think an attempt is being made to keep people engaged with one another. (I am sure there are many more sites too.)

I encourage you to someday get an actual evaluation to find out if you really do have ADHD. Seeing a licensed psychologist at maybe even a neurological center, might be a way to know once and for all, what might be the issue you have. In the mean time, I would keep on the search! In another way, the pursuit of what you are talking about can be a career within itself! Helping those that need a little “nudge” in the right direction might be exactly what the doctor ordered. And being creative about how to get the message out to everyone certainly will not in any way hurt your cause. Keep it up and don’t (EVER) give up trying!

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