I'm really hoping this is someone trolling, because I find quite a lot of what was said offensive.
1.) Marriage is NOT religious. I am an atheist, and I have been married for 14 years on Feb. 2. God, the bible, Buddah...whatever deity you want to throw in there had nothing to do with my decision to get married, and it shouldn't have anything to do with anyone's decision to get married. The point of marriage is to spend the rest of your life with someone that you love, and love does not see race, gender or religion. No one has the right to tell any two people that they cannot get married because a fictional book (The bible) says it is a sin. If you're going to follow the bible, than follow every single parts of the bible, don't be a hypocrite and pick bits and pieces that suit your needs.
2.) Depression is a disorder, in fact it has been recognized by psychologists almost from the beginning of the field. Every branch of psychology has different explanations for the cause of the disorder, but they all agree that it is, in fact, a disorder. This is taken straight from the DSM-V, which is the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders, the fifth and most recent addition. This is not a condition that people make up to get attention. It is a problem that people need to seek help for.
Major Depressive Disorder
Diagnostic Criteria
- Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
- Note: Do not include symptoms that are clearly attributable to another medical condition.
- Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report (e.g., feels sad, empty, hopeless) or observation made by others (e.g., appears tearful). (Note: In children and adolescents, can be irritable mood.)
- Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day (as indicated by either subjective account or observation).
- Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain (e.g., a change of more than 5% of body weight in a month), or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day. (Note: In children, consider failure to make expected weight gain.)
- Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day.
- Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down).
- Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
- Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt (which may be delusional) nearly every day (not merely self-reproach or guilt about being sick).
- Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day (either by subjective account or as observed by others).
- Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.
- The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
- The episode is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or to another medical condition.
Note: Criteria A–C represent a major depressive episode.
Note: Responses to a significant loss (e.g., bereavement, financial ruin, losses from a natural disaster, a serious medical illness or disability) may include the feelings of intense sadness, rumination about the loss, insomnia, poor appetite, and weight loss noted in Criterion A, which may resemble a depressive episode. Although such symptoms may be understandable or considered appropriate to the loss, the presence of a major depressive episode in addition to the normal response to a significant loss should also be carefully considered. This decision inevitably requires the exercise of clinical judgment based on the individual's history and the cultural norms for the expression of distress in the context of loss.
In distinguishing grief from a major depressive episode (MDE), it is useful to consider that in grief the predominant affect is feelings of emptiness and loss, while in MDE it is persistent depressed mood and the inability to anticipate happiness or pleasure. The dysphoria in grief is likely to decrease in intensity over days to weeks and occurs in waves, the so-called pangs of grief. These waves tend to be associated with thoughts or reminders of the deceased. The depressed mood of MDE is more persistent and not tied to specific thoughts or preoccupations. The pain of grief may be accompanied by positive emotions and humor that are uncharacteristic of the pervasive unhappiness and misery characteristic of MDE. The thought content associated with grief generally features a preoccupation with thoughts and memories of the deceased, rather than the self-critical or pessimistic ruminations seen in MDE. In grief, self-esteem is generally preserved, whereas in MDE feelings of worthlessness and self-loathing are common. If self-derogatory ideation is present in grief, it typically involves perceived failings vis-à-vis the deceased (e.g., not visiting frequently enough, not telling the deceased how much he or she was loved). If a bereaved individual thinks about death and dying, such thoughts are generally focused on the deceased and possibly about "joining" the deceased, whereas in MDE such thoughts are focused on ending one's own life because of feeling worthless, undeserving of life, or unable to cope with the pain of depression.
- The occurrence of the major depressive episode is not better explained by schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder, or other specified and unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.
- There has never been a manic episode or a hypomanic episode.
- Note: This exclusion does not apply if all of the manic-like or hypomanic-like episodes are substance-induced or are attributable to the physiological effects of another medical condition.
3.) Suicide isn't funny. Ranting about someone being suicidal is immature, and quite frankly makes you look like a horrible human being. People who are considering suicide need help, and someone to listen to them. What they don't need is someone making them feel bad for going through a rough time in their life. They're already going through hell as it is, complaining about them isn't helping.
Your rant is going on and on about people assuming things, yet it seems as if you're doing quite a bit of assuming yourself. You don't know what a person is going through until you've lived in their shoes for a day. It's not your decision who gets married, or why they get married. There is no one in the world, not you, not me, not even any damn political leader in the world who has the right to say who should, and should not get married. Your opinion on the matter doesn't count. The only people whose opinion should count are those who want to get married. To quote some random thing I read on the internet and cannot recall at the moment "If you don't like gay marriage, than don't have one."
And on side note, I probably shouldn't have said a word, but damn it! I hate when people spew things that make absolutely no sense, especially in a series of run on sentences that make my eyes bleed.....
