“Don’t Blame It on Depression”

“Bad behavior — even suicidal behavior — is not the same as depression. It is a truism in psychiatry that depression is underdiagnosed. But as a psychiatrist confronted daily with “problem” patients in the general hospital where I work, I find that depression is also over diagnosed. Even doctors invoke “depression” to explain anything a reasonable adult wouldn’t do.

For instance: Act completely blasé, then lock the pilot out of the cockpit, and deliberately crash a plane full of people.

I don’t know what that is, but it’s not depression…

“Depression” seems to signify social ills for which we have no solution, from violent, homicidal behavior, to health illiteracy, to our culture’s neglect of the elderly. Constructing societal deficits as a medical problem does everyone a disservice — because treatment specific for depression won’t work for people who don’t really have depression. People who need social support can be expected to benefit most from programs that provide social support — not from psychiatrists."

Depression Did Not Make the Germanwings Co-Pilot Murder a Plane Full of People

So great, I love these points.
(credit to KM)