Zinco, the point I'm trying to make here about it not being a physical disease is that no mental illness is diagnosed or detected by doing brain scans, blood tests and lab tests. Sure, a blood test may indicate something correlating with depression but no one gets a blood test done then comes out with a diagnosis of depression.

The legal and medical community treat it as a disease, so there wouldn't be a reason why they wouldn't portray it as a disease - it does not however meet the scientific criterion for disease. Mental illness is identifiable by certain behaviors, not through the examination of cell function, organ and tissue... and disease is a derangement of cell function, organ and tissue.

Neurologists study the abnormalities of the brain and nervous system, never for a suicide.