Depression is not a ****ing illness.
I know an0n's style but I can not let this past my eyes unfalsified.
an0n's last message was utter garbage. Clinical depression is an illness, period. There's quite accurate article about depression in Wikipedia:
Clinical DepressionNo specific cause for depression has been identified, but a number of factors are believed to be involved.
Heredity – The tendency to develop depression may be inherited; there is some evidence that this disorder may run in families. A 2004 press release from the National Institute of Mental Health declares "major depression is thought to be 40-70 percent heritable, but likely involves an interaction of several genes with environmental events."
Physiology – There may be changes or imbalances in chemicals that transmit information in the brain, called neurotransmitters. Many modern antidepressant drugs increase levels of certain neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and norepinephrine. Although the causal relationship is unclear, it is known that antidepressant medications can relieve certain symptoms of depression, although critics point out that the relationship between serotonin, SSRIs, and depression usually is typically greatly oversimplified when presented to the public (see here). Recent research has suggested that there may be a link between depression and neurogenesis of the hippocampus. This horseshoe-shaped structure is a center for both mood and memory. Loss of neurons in the hippocampus is found in depression and correllates with impaired memory and dysthemic mood. The hippocampus regains mass when exposed to treatments that increase brain serotonin, and when regrown, mood and memory tend to be restored.
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Medical conditions – Certain illnesses, including cardiovascular disease[10], hepatitis, mononucleosis, hypothyroidism, and organic brain damage caused by degenerative conditions such as Parkinson disease, Multiple Sclerosis or by traumatic blunt force injury may contribute to depression, as may certain prescription drugs such as birth control pills and steroids. Gender dysphoria can also cause depression.
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Alcohol and other drugs – Alcohol can have a negative effect on mood, and misuse of alcohol, benzodiazepine-based tranquilizers, and sleeping medications can all play a major role in the length and severity of depression. The link between frequent cannabis use and depression is also widely documented, although the direction of causality remains in question; Dr. Salynn Boyles writes, ". . . research has linked pot smoking with depression and schizophrenia . . . daily use [of marijuana] was associated with a five-fold increase in later depression and anxiety among young women. But depression and anxiety were not predictive of later marijuana use."
Paradoxally, diet has also been supposed to be a possible reason for depression. Eat wrong -> depression -> eat more and equally wrong -> worse depression...
Regardless of the original reason, it is clear and has been for decades that
clinical depression is an actual illness that usually doesn't get better by itself but requires treatment just like other illnessess that affect body.
Depression is almost analogous to a brain tumor. If you get a brain tumor and your brains stop functioning as they should, no one blames you of being a faggotry person whining for attention. Well guess what, while tumor can affect chemical balance of brain,
so can depression, and it's just as real as the brain tumor's effects.
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