Duchscherer out for the season

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/athletics/ci_13180524?source=rss

 

Out of the season due to clinical depression. Total ingrate. What a wimp.

[a700hitter]

It shouldn't take much for a psychologist to get to the root of his problems. He's had major arm surgery and his career is at a crossroads and he works for possibly the worst organization in baseball. His outlook is bleak, depressing. Instead, they'll load him up on pharmaceuticals.

[Dojji]

Clinical depression is a serious illness. Other sicknesses can target your ability to do thins, clinical depression inhibits your willingness to try. Imagine trying to compete at the major league level when even getting up in the morning and appearing outside your door is a difficult proposition..

 

Depending on the kind of depression this may need the help more of a clinical psychiatrist and the appropriate chemical remedy.

[example1]

Clinical depression is a serious illness. Other sicknesses can target your ability to do thins, clinical depression inhibits your willingness to try. Imagine trying to compete at the major league level when even getting up in the morning and appearing outside your door is a difficult proposition..

 

Depending on the kind of depression this may need the help more of a clinical psychiatrist and the appropriate chemical remedy.

 

Spot on Dojji.

 

I'm sure if his depression is keeping him from playing this year that he's working with a psychiatrist. Even a club like the A's undoubtedly has enough medical oversight to send him to a professional.

[Dojji]

Thanks, Example. I know this forum is dripping with internet machismo, but seriously, we're talking about a bona fide mental illness here. I've suffered from it myself in the past, and made the mistake of trying to will myself past it and not get treatment. It might be the biggest mistake of my life. It cost me my high school diploma and every shred of confidence in myself I ever had. It took me three years to straighten out my head, get my GED, and move on with my life.

[a700hitter]

Clinical depression is a serious illness. Other sicknesses can target your ability to do thins, clinical depression inhibits your willingness to try. Imagine trying to compete at the major league level when even getting up in the morning and appearing outside your door is a difficult proposition..

 

Depending on the kind of depression this may need the help more of a clinical psychiatrist and the appropriate chemical remedy.

Hopefully, he finds someone good that can help him and not just throw some pills at him.

[Dojji]

For the sicnkess to be termed a clinical depression, there is a physical (read: probably chemical) aspect to the illness. I agree you need to do more than just throw pills at a victim of clinical depression, but medication can be a necessary part of the recovery process too.

[a700hitter]

For the sicnkess to be termed a clinical depression' date=' there is a physical (read: probably chemical) aspect to the illness. I agree you need to do more than just throw pills at a victim of clinical depression, but medication can be a necessary part of the recovery process too.[/quote']That's true, but too often the medication is the primary focus.

[example1]

That's true' date=' but too often the medication is the primary focus.[/quote']

 

In our mental health system overall I agree. If a kid or teenager is labeled with depression but also lives in an abusive (or at least difficult) home environment, doesn't have friends or activities, has to stress about the family lacking money etc., then yeah, throwing pills at the problem probably won't work.

 

If you're an MLB ballplayer and you just wake up every morning unable to get out of bed, but you don't have a particularly traumatic background or substantitive reasons for that depression (a focus of the depression, if you will) then pills might be exactly what he would benefit from.

 

In those cases it is all about dopamine and seratonin.

[CrespoBlows]

It shouldn't take much for a psychologist to get to the root of his problems. He's had major arm surgery and his career is at a crossroads and he works for possibly the worst organization in baseball. His outlook is bleak' date=' depressing. Instead, they'll load him up on pharmaceuticals.[/quote']

 

Worst organization in baseball? The A's have a lot of talent coming through the pipes.