Posted by Enigma on August 26, 2007, at 11:40:46
In reply to Re: Still no cure for my depression - tried everything, posted by Existentialist on August 25, 2007, at 13:27:05
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> Also I think before you look at those drugs there is a lot to be done as far as understanding ourselves and our lives and the root causes of human distrubance. I think it's a result of personal and social development, and general lack of sanity modern life can have. It's a repressive way of life we live and control games and psychological defense mechanisms are abundant.
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> Healthy lifestyle and diet and exclusion of other biological illness. Perhaps visit a bhuddist monestary and live there for a year and see if your perspective changes. Some sort of massive lifestyle overhaul and self help where you try and rebuild yourself, think about why you have the emotions you do, and work to develop new emotional and cognitive patterns.From what you are saying, you make it sound that mental illness is purely environmental. Sorry, wrong. While I have suffered a great deal from my sick "family", I KNOW at least 75% of my problems are biological. This is to say, no book, therapy, diet, breathing excercises, faith, or any other such "stuff" is going to even make a dent in the chemical imbalance that exists in my brain.
I'm not even going to argue the point. I'm so sick of having this discussion with people.
Pure and simple: Some people are depressed because of various life events and trauma, others are depressed because the chemicals in their brain are DO NOT FUNCTION CORRECTLY, and others, a combo of both.
I get furious when people try to tell me to go hug a tree, and all my problems will go away. Enough already. Chemical Imbalance is as real as CANCER.
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