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Originally Posted by Creative1onder
I don't think anyone can know and prove for definite that depression is a mental illness due to a chemical imbalance. That is one perspective that people choose to follow without getting to the real underlying issues related to their depression.. Regardless of what circumstances we have, or what life throws at us, its always up to the individual how they percieve and respond/deal with things and that has effects. People have different beliefs, and deal with things differently that have different outcomes. Your view of not being able to recover, overcome depression, that is gonna remain for rest of your life cos your brain is not working properly,normally like others, doesn't come from you personally. People have influenced you to think that and you've followed it. You don't know /cant envisage how you will be in the long term future, that you will always be depressed forever.
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I think there are lots of factors that contribute to depression, I do not think it is as simple as a chemical imbalance, since even that simplifies too much, though I think it is more than likely brain chemistry plays a role in depressive disorders...of course it is not the only factor.
I have gotten into the 'real' underlying social/environmental factors of my depression and yeah as I have said addressing that doesn't decrease it any ...I don't have suppressed memories or anything. Also I disagree that everyone has the choice of how to respond/percieve or deal with something...its not like I chose to respond to trauma by developing PTSD, if I had any say in the matter I would have preferred to brush it off as a bad memory not the hell that is that disorder...the depression was bad enough and now I am supposed to somehow recover from depression and have a bunch of hope when I have PTSD on top if it which totally made all the therapy I had up to that point useless. So yeah if everyone could just choose how things effect them they wouldn't develop mental disorders, or endure the mental pain caused by things like bullying or abuse but if you really think people choose to be negatively effected by that stuff it's your problem...for me it would be unhealthy to believe that since then it just means I'd have to blame all my problems on myself which would be unfair to me.
Also would you stop telling me other people formed my opinion for me...that is simply not true if anything throughout my life before I got any diagnoses I had a lot of accusations of being told I was lazy, or not trying hard enough with things...after diagnoses following the suicide attempt and going to therapy yeah for a while I thought I was really improving and was through with the depression...then a girl I know gets killed at school in a lockdown and in the following weeks my parents where finalizing their divorce I end up with PTSD and I am supposed to just brush that off and be hopeful as ever...well I already tried that and burnt myself out trying to force myself through college and failing.
My experiences have influenced my opinion on this, it has nothing to do with other people...most people mental health people included are all about full on recovory to the point of even being too in your face about it when you're just really not in the place for it.
People don't want to respect where I am mentally and that maybe one can only take so much before they are burnt out and 'full recovery and a joyful life' just isn't something I'd have energy for anyways so be it, but that is where I am right now. Many people recover from many things, many people don't recover from everything and have to live with difficulties they don't choose or want to have.