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Originally Posted by Marhcarter  It is a chemical imbalance, helped by proper medication therapy. |
Depression is so sad and confusing to me because while I know meds are the way to go I know several serious cases where nothing seemed to work. 10 days ago, a close friend's 29 year old daughter took her own life. She was a highly skilled nurse at the U of MI cardiac care unit. She performed excellent at her job and then went home and harldy left the couch. 15 years of different meds, doctors, and counseling yet nothing seemed to really help this gal. She had high hopes and was always striving to kick it, even had an appointment set up with a new doc that she had heard great things about. Yet after her shift she went to a seldom used area of the hospital and overdosed on her meds. My mother in law has been fighting this for 20 years, she has had shock therapy and been on at least 10 different kinds of meds through the years, but she rarely gets dressed anymore and cries multiple times a day, I think the only thing she cares about are her dogs and her husband, she seems to care little about her children or grandchild or friends she once had. It has gotten so that we no longer have a relationship with her. She was a nurse and my father in law a doctor, so they have not hesitated to rely on medicine yet nothing has lifted this cloud from over her head.
If you have an infection you can take an antibiotic and it clears up, if you have an ache you can take aspirin or something to make it go away, but with depression the medical solution seems to still be a mystery since it does not always work for everyone.