Is there such a thing as being "cured" of depression?

REMMISION + RELASPE The only 2 words you ever need to no about DEPRESSION , this is the pattern for life if you have more than 3 attacks

I don't think there is such a thing as a complete cure. I've been dealing with it since I was a teenager and I am now 50. But since being put in a partial hospitalization program after my last stay in a psych ward, I'm beginning to recognize some of the signs of depression when they start, even when my mind is in denial that I'm getting depressed. Lack of sleep was always an issue, so I can't rely on that, but showering, motivated to get out and socialize even a little is something I do now, and when I don't, I know that I'm beginning to slip again and I talk to someone. Good luck.

just for your information, i am in "complete remission" and have been for almost 3 years, so there IS a cure for depression.

i used a therapy called Holosync and meditation, combined , for 7 years, but by the fifth year i could see major improvements. i no longer have OCDs, suicidal ideations (which plagued me for over two decades, daily), or panic attacks. i was bipolar, not just depressed, but the effect is the same.

you can read about this technology in its therapeutic form at CenterPointe.com. or down load samples of it from various other places. but for it to work, you must devote at least one hour a day to it.

best wishes to you all ~
Gus

Hang on there remission does not mean cure ?? it means its gone away it does not mean it may come back at some time. You would make medical history to be cured of bipolar

gone away is gone away~ cured

Thanks for this. I also think one can be cured from depression. I am proof of this also - I just took a different route.

I know someone's who was depressed for seven years and got through it and is happy now. So yes, I do think it's possible.

REMMISSION means its gone away, RELAPSE means its back. ask you doc if he can ever say your cured forever .

I tend to think of it as a chronic condition that, at best, can be successfully managed. I know I'll never be "cured." Currently, I'm having a good interval of not feeling depressed and not living how I live when I'm depressed. That's real easy to differentiate. My house is clean and I keep thinking cheerfully of what is the next thing on my agenda that I want to get done. It's a good feeling, but I would be shocked if it lasted indefinitely. It never has. I don't mean that I don't expect to have down days, as I know everyone has. I expect to keep having intervals of horrendous misery.

When I'm in between those intervals, it gets tempting to think I've gotten free of that cycle. But years of being up and down and up and down has taught me not to count on either the ups or downs to last.

My idea of progress is this: Make the bad intervals come less often. Make them last less time when they do come around. Honestly though . . . I've made no real progress on that. It's like riding the rapids. I just keep above water as long as I can till I get swamped again.

Years of therapy didn't ever change the pattern. So I've stopped going, just because I figured I'ld exhausted what I could get out of it. Go to therapy if you find it comforting. But I'ld advise against thinking there is ever going to come a cure out of going.

You don't have to go continuously. You can stop for months or years . . . and go back if you want to anytime you want. I agree with the concept of chronic depression going in and out of remission.

If major, sustained improvement ever does come, I think it is apt to be the fruit of having achieved one or more very satisfying human relationships. No T can give you that.