For years I've been hearing how just like if you have heart problems and you take meds for it, if you have depression you take meds and it will help cure it. However, this makes no sense to me! You can't replace a brain like you can replace a heart if there are issues with it. The brain is very different. If it is just a chemical imbalance then why doesn't medication alone work? Why don't meds work for everyone? Also, saying that feeling sad and depressed is because of a chemical imbalance is like saying all feelings are just about chemicals and you can make someone feel like any kind of mood by giving them certain chemicals! And how can it be that someone can be born without the possibility of being happy?! It all just has never made sense to me and no one has been able to adequately answer me. Can any of you help me understand this?
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NO,it was not a chemical problem--originally.A great many clinical depression cases start out in your family.yOU may not even remember stuff among your family(my sister to this day,cannot handle the memory,she was sexually molested by our dad;as he did to me also,)My sister carefully denys any memory or reality of it happening to her,also,but usually its not only one victim in a family.--multiple females get molested,raped, ect.AND I WAS TOLD TO NOT REMEMBER UNDER PAIN OF DEATH.

YOU have a big fat "thing "in your head,"whether you remember it or not.It might be sex,rape,beatings,death threats,a violent family member,whatever your family you grew up with, did to you.WHOEVER did this "depression- clinical-memory."--WHO EVER RAISED YOU. BUT you had "early trauma" and it often affects your BRAIN.

Yes,it has real physical effects on your brain!!MANY DEPRESSED OR MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE HAVE BRAIN DAMAGE FROM EARLY TRAUMA.--THEY don't like to admit it,the shrinks.Sometimes they are forced to tell you this,cause you try to get off the anti-depressant.==and once off,your BRAIN cannot handle life.---Finally,they tell you,"Don't go off the medication,your brain is tramatized."MOST of the very mentally ill people could not go off meds--maybe no tranks,but anti-depressant,yes.--Finally you realize, yes,I have brain damage of some sort.

If you protest you had a great upbringings,but you can't remember much of your childhood,or any "significant memory,"believe me,SOMETHING went on in early life.you don't get this way from "self-hurting brain virus"or stuff.Maybe your brain was literally hurt,accident?crime to you?car wreck?GOT ATTACKED?

But the reason for the chemical imbalance started with WHO OR WHAT RAISED YOU AS A KID AND TEEN.--WHOM??You probably did not start life with a "chemical imbalance"to your brain.You got ABUSE SOMEWHERE.--CAUSE that's one of the most frequant reasons for clinical depression.--child or teen abuse.no one starts out with "chemical imbalance"--its a result of"who or what raised you."I had amnesia till i was in my 30's.--AMNESIA is very common.

But,I cannot tell what happened in your upbringing--that is up to you--no one is born with a chemical imbalance, almost NO CASES.IF you have shrinks who say"its only a chemical imbalance,nothing else."they are lying.START READING BOOKS on reasons for severe depression.--why people have them,how to manage them,ect ect.Get someone you trust,to talk to.Come here, we will not BS YOU.I WON'T.