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Frank Cotolo
September 25, 2014 |
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Many times we are insensitive to people close to us (I mean friends and family, not people leaning
against us on a crowded bus or train) and we cannot identify the tenuous condition known as
Depression. Once a passing mood, Depression has become a serious illness but still not serious
enough to diagnose quickly.
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In this blog we will show you how to identify Depression, according to a new book called
"Identifying Depression and Other Rules for People with No Compassion," by Erkstein Klienstein.
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The author writes in the beginning of the book that it is important to realize you are not
experiencing Depression in order to identify it in others. "If you are depressed," Klienstein
writes, "you better know it or else someone else who is depressed may actually seem happy to you,
especially if you are more depressed than the other depressed person, whom does not recognize their
own depression."
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Once you know you are sans Depression, look for some signs in others that indicate they are under
the dark spell of the disease (Klienstein makes note, as well, that most diseases do not have light
spells, only dark ones). Here are some signs that a person has Depression and may be unaware of it.
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If a person is shopping for breakfast cereal at a major supermarket and stops mid-aisle to draw
moustaches upon the faces of Snap, Crackle, Pop and other characters printed upon product packages,
he or she is depressed.
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If a person hails a taxi using real hail, he or she is depressed.
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If a person is crying into a bowl of soup and still eating it, ignoring that there is a fly
floating in the soup, he or she is depressed.
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If a person hugs you and you feel sharp, penetrating pokes in your back, followed by bleeding, he or
she is depressed.
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If your are holding the hand of a loved one while strolling along the street and your loved one's
hand becomes clammy and your loved one buckles to his or her knees while still clutching to your
hand and your loved one begins an attempt to sing verses from Jerome Kern songs, he or she is
depressed.
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