Living with Mental Illness: Depression

People often say they’re feeling depressed. But major depression is a serious illness which affects millions of people of all ages and all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. During this conversation, Dr. Gary Swanson from the Allegheny Health Network explains the symptoms of major depression, while local school teacher Brenda Weingartner shares details of her long battle with the illness, including how she finally found relief.

[andyspark]

It's interesting how doctors work.
If somebody have a physical pain like stomachache or headache, the first thing what they do, they search for the cause.
With mental pain it's totally different approach. They don't search for the cause, they just prescribe some evil stuff. And cause still there and maybe it's getting worse.
The problem starts with looking at depression as a disease, but it's not a disease.
It's a symptom of a disease or a problem.
Pain still a pain, physical or mental. Take care of the cause and the symptoms disappear by itself.
I say that, because my depression disappeared after i start eating healthier.
So, unhealthy food was the cause in my case.
And I know, that i'm not the only one, who have this experience.

[TheMindIlluminated]

Does anyone ever bother to ask WHY the brain is imbalanced, as opposed to just pumping these awful pills out to fix the symptom? Drug resistant depression? Perhaps there’s deeper issues to address in that case.

[gabrielaguilarcasco]

My mental illness ruined my life. I have social fobia (anxiety). Life is beautifil.