Depressive DISORDER or Depressive REALISM-There is nothing wrong with you.

The diagnosing of depression as a form of illness is an insidious form of deception. The psychiatric profession's insistence on labeling individuals who experience anxiety and depression as disordered is offensive and unacceptable. I've always found the concept of experiencing feelings of depression as a form of disorder to be offensive and unacceptable. In particular, I take issue with the word disorder. The use of the word 'disorder' implies that there is order. However there's nothing ordered about the society in which we live. Placing the label of disorder on someone who experiences feelings of depression and anxiety is akin to blaming the victim. The medical profession seems to be implying that the world in which we live is so perfect and ordered that any kind of feelings of dissatisfaction or discontent indicates some form of deficiency within the individual. In other words, if you are experiencing these feelings of sadness, angst and depression then you must be defective. This is absurd. Society is not ordered. Most people are unable to earn enough money to adequately clothe shelter and feed themselves. No matter the environment, the inability to acquire adequate resources naturally induces feelings of anxiety and depression. This is a natural and perfectly healthy response to unsatisfactory circumstances or to environmental conditions that threaten any organism's survival. To label this a 'disorder' is not only irresponsible; it is immoral. Emotions evolved for a specific purpose. Just as tactile and physical sensibilities evolved to alert the organism of the presence of damaging stimuli that could cause injury or death to the body's tissue, so too, did Evolution install an early warning system designed to alert system the organism to the presence of something in the environment that was not healthy or conducive to its survival. With the emergence of the mammalian brain came the ability to experience emotions. The primary purpose of these feelings of depression and anxiety are to alert human beings that something in their environment needs to be altered or changed, or that the organism needs to attend to something about itself that needs to be strengthened, or modified, to respond optimally to the adverse environmental conditions. Perhaps the most offensive aspect of diagnosing people who experience anxiety and depression with a disorder is that the medical profession profits from the psychotropic drugs they prescribe that are supposed to mask the symptoms of depression and anxiety. Notice they do not offer a cure to this supposed affliction. This response is completely illogical and absurd. The medical establishment is saying, "Here is a panacea or a medication that will numb the feelings of depression and anxiety that you have, so that you can continue to exist and function within the horrible societal conditions that we have thrust upon you." Of course you will incur an expense for this medication, which ironically, further adds to your inability to support yourself within this society. It is society that is disordered; the humans of which it is composed are merely having a healthy response to the unjust conditions in which they have been immersed. The ingestion of pharmacological interventions to interfere with these natural emotional responses is equivalent to placing one's hand on a flame or a hot stove and rather than removing one's hand, he takes a painkiller to numb the sensation while the flesh and bones continue to burn. The logical response would be to remove the hand from the flame. The analogy should be clear. It is absurd to take medications so that one does not have to feel the normal healthy emotions that arise from being unable to provide for oneself; the appropriate action is to remove oneself from the environment. If this is not possible, then radical forms of environmental change are necessary to rectify these adverse environmental conditions. The whip and chains have been replaced by pharmaceutical conformity.