Depression

It may not have been patronising, but it would have been common courtesy to tell us under what auspices the 'research' was being carried out and whether the post was authorised by GNHQ.
As others have pointed out, the majority of GNers are too young to have experienced depression during the war years, but in any case I would not disclose information about my own medical history or hat of my relatives in a public forum.

I didn't think so. Some have tried to answer so not everyone thought so. She asked politely. Probably unaware of the etiquette, probably young, but now told in no uncertain terms.

Beginning a post with, 'I hope you can please help' is a polite request surely?

Quite, Mollie. A bit of kindness wouldn't have gone amiss, even if it was a poor attempt at advertising, which I don't think it is.
Maybe Brandy might like to clarify.

Agreed J - didn't find Brandy's post patronising at all.

mollie I don't like being patronised and I don't think anyone was rude. Expecting members to provide information for your research, on the other hand, is a rude assumption.

Nella Last wrote for the Mass Observation archives. She suffered from depression.

www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/nella_last_01.shtml

But why be so rude about it? Why not ignore the thread?

I hope not.

Ouch! Brandy won't make that mistake again will she/he?

They may have had electric shock treatment. Of a very rough and ready kind.

I don't think there would have been much real help. At worse severely depressed people would have been locked up in large institutions.

I don't know when tricyclics were invented. You could find out on the net.

Phenolbarbitone was the standard drug for insomnia.

Wasn't the Blitz during the 1940s not an alternative? Wouldn't cocoa have been rationed in the same way as chocolate? Surely the common expression is tea and sympathy not cocoa and Vera Lynn.

Brandy There are quite a few books that cover the subject of depression during the Blitz. 'Domestic Soldiers' by Jennifer Purcell is a good one.

That Wasn't patronising.

I think the patronising reference to cocoa and Vera Lynn tells us all we need to know about this poster.

Along with many other gransnetters, I am a post-war baby boomer. In any case, shouldn't this be on the paid Media thread? This is a social forum not the rat house in a laboratory.

I was born in the war and was only 4 and a half when it ended. And I'm older than a lot of most other gransnetters!

How old do you think we would have to be to have been depressed during the blitz?
I am getting a bit tired of 'researchers' thinking we are a ready-made source of information.