diamondfan
Super_Ideal_Rock
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Depression is real illness and it is serious, and it vastly affects the quality of life for the person experiencing it. If you had cancer or diabetes you would not likely just decide to not be affected by it. You would likely avail yourself to any meds and other current treatments. This may be simplistic, but yet I hate to hear people say you can jolly yourself out of depression or sadness. A totally erroneous and dangerous perspective. And the meds are meant to balance you, to assist you in realizing that you can feel better, even just a little bit...so that the burdens of being depressed ease enough for help to be meaningful. Depression causes physical as well as emotional symptoms. Sometimes the pain physically is just as terrible as the cognitive symptoms. It is so wrong to think one can just snap one''s fingers, decide it is time to feel better and poof you are better. Of course, cognitions do affect mood and behavior, but a true depressive episode needs more than thinking it away. A bad day, a little feeling blue, that is one thing, but actual clinical depression, whether it be SAD or another form of it, usually needs a multi modal approach for successful treatment.