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[quote author=Spionkop69 link=topic=47530.msg1426672#msg1426672 date=1321435162]
The total lack of understanding of depression in this thread, its causes and also its consequences are to be frank, quite shocking.
Wonderfully glib comments that help maintain the stigma of mental illness, when in fact hundreds of millions of people are suffering from this around the world. It might be too simplistic for some of you to understand but in the hope that some of you get it - just because he earns hundreds of thousands of pounds a month to play a game we all love, does not leave him immune from depression.
He may well be a cunt, but if he is suffering from depression, then its not something I'd wish on anyone. But carry on and mock away.
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I don't think there is genuinely a lack of understanding or empathy. Not on this forum anyway, which to me is made up of a pretty well rounded bunch of people.
It's very easy to take a topic and tread the moral high ground simply because something like depression has surfaced very visibly. I don't know how much value that has though. It's a football forum and the reaction to someone like Tevez claiming he has depression was a fairly predictable one and in mind makes no statement about the wider issue at hand.
I didn't see many, if any, rush to Rooney's defence when he got his hair transplants. For all we know he may have been suffering from genuine anxieties about his hair, which was impacting his life in some significant way as depression might.
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Oh I agree, but with regards to taking the moral high ground? I actually believe and was trying to convey the other side of the argument from a depression point of view. I now know there are plenty of people who think I've behaved like a cunt when I genuinely wasn't trying to be that, its just that the I was not able to break the cycle of triggers to behaviours among many things.
Yeah, the reaction is pretty predictable but its actually sad. Like I said, and this is me taking the moral high ground, wishing cancer on someone is vilified but wishing mocking mental illness isn't? Its not really for any of us to say whether he is depressed, but some of the glib "how can he be depressed on that sort of money" comments are the sort of ill judged and show naiveness to towards a very common illness.
This is going a bit General Chat, but depression needs to be understood better not mocked by people.
Oh and the Wayne Rooney comment is moot because he never claimed to have depression. If he had the said that then the responses would have been worse because of who he plays for, but I'd have still come to his defence because of dealings with the issue.
We will probably never know the truth of whether he is or isn't and more to the point many will not believe him if he is officially diagnosed anyway!