> often clinical depression is a permanent problem that has to be dealt with throughout life.

Labelling it as "permanent" is quite a daunting prognosis, I think. Wouldn't you say it depends on the treatment? Something accepted (by "authorities") at one point may not be so accepted at another. The sufferer of the depression may be affected by the prognosis given by "authority."

> there is a thing that exists that is treatment-resistant depression

Indeed; I suggest as above, that is related to the "treatment" as well as the depression.

> Some people truly have depression rooted in a bioogical nature.

Do you know this as a "fact"?

> I'm not sure I understand how doing the treatments "helps" those doing them by keeping stuff hidden. It's not like the therapists themselves are doing the treatments.

No, psychotherapists don't do that kind of treatment. I think some "treatments" are done in haste to relieve the anxieties of the treaters (not psychotherapists in this case). I think that those who advise and carry out shock treatment call themselves therapists too.

Sorry [not really] if I offend anyone, but it is the interests of the patients (me) I have primarily in mind.