Misinformation about what depression is and how to treat it inspired global mental health expert Ian Hickie to bust myths and urge Australians not to navigate the health system alone.
“This is a constant, that there’s some question about their efficacy: it’s nonsense. It’s been demonstrably nonsense for 20 years; they do [work]. The question is what will work for you,” he said.
Another harmful but popular myth is that all depression is connected to childhood trauma, and that “everyone who’s depressed must have had a traumatic episode”. “The question isn’t, ‘how did you get into the hole’, it’s ‘how do you get out’ ... that is about understanding your own vulnerability; what it is that might put them back at risk again, so they can take actions to prevent recurrence of the problem.”
Other theories that needed to be debunked were that people with depression always needed time off work to get well – “we say we don’t get well to go to work, we go to work to get well” – and that depression is simply sadness and also is “all in the mind”.
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