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(JD) · Mar 26, 2009, 05:29 PM

First, let me apologize for not reading the entire thread. I read the OP and frankly, I'm very disappointed in your doctor.

Not that it really matters why someone is depressed, but for him to invalidate you that way is what "sucks" imo. (Blushing.) I don't use that word..but really, HE has the wrong attitude...maybe?

If you google "depression CAUSED BY chronic illness" you will find many "scholarly articles" that talk about the chemical changes in one's body by the prolonged state of illness.

I'm sure there are doctors (psychologists) who can share case after case of chronically ill people who despite all their efforts still became depressed.

To hear that some doctors are still differentiating between "real" illness and that "in the mind" (which is how he made it sound, saying it that way) is a real tragedy to me! The mind is in the body, and no one can separate the two...intertwined...what affects one, affects the other.

I'm sorry your life is so hard. I hope you can get through/over any idea you might have that your depression is "just" your poor reaction to what life has thrown you. You depression IS part of what life is for you.