{"id":114851,"date":"2016-02-08T04:50:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T04:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/08\/thats-what-you-do-with-depression-you-mask-the\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T04:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T04:50:21","slug":"thats-what-you-do-with-depression-you-mask-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/08\/thats-what-you-do-with-depression-you-mask-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>That\u2019s what you do with Depression, you mask the symptoms. The symptoms of Depression IS depression, it\u2019s not a symptom of something else. It\u2019s not like you go \u201coooh, I feel really sad\u201d and then your arse falls off. The symptoms of Depression is depression. You take away the symptoms of Depression HALLOOOOO! you\u2019re cured! But Tom [Cruise] was like \u201cno, no, no Matt. Matt, these drugs Matt, these drugs they\u2019re just a crutch, these drugs are just a crutch!\u201d and I\u2019m thinking \u201cyes?\u201d. THEY\u2019RE A CRUTCH! You don\u2019t walk up to a guy with one leg and say \u201chey pal, that crutch is just a crutch, THROW IT AWAY! Hop ya bastard! That crutch is masking the symptoms of your one leggedness\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Craig Ferguson on Tom Cruise attacking Brooke Shields for using anti-depressants to fight Post-Partum Depression. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/themarriageofadeadblogsing.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">themarriageofadeadblogsing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I have always thought Craig Ferguson was a very smart man. It appears I was right.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/deliciouskaek.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">deliciouskaek<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like you go \u201coooh, I feel really sad\u201d and then your arse falls off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cephalopuddle.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cephalopuddle<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s what you do with Depression, you mask the symptoms. The symptoms of Depression IS depression, it\u2019s not a symptom of something else. It\u2019s not like you go \u201coooh, I feel really sad\u201d and then your arse falls off. The symptoms of Depression is depression. You take away the symptoms of Depression HALLOOOOO! you\u2019re cured! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/08\/thats-what-you-do-with-depression-you-mask-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2090,1068,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}