Depression, true depression - can bring on destructive disabling if not a crippling disease where people could lose the fight to want to live and think there is no way out, no repair, no answers.

Often faced with all to real insurmountable obstacles where they feel there is no way out, backed into a corner and hopeless. Making them desperate to the point they want to end their lives.

Many people get help, and many do not. Getting it where healthcare professionals work to the best of their ability to provide life saving, preserving treatments. That includes medications, therapy be it talk, cbt, dbt and more.

Those who don’t clearly suffer through it unnecessarily for reasons some make sense but to deny oneself treatment is dangerous where they are left to their own devices.

Some self medicate. Some in denial there is a problem…

When you don’t hear about the casualties of depression, it is impossible to render a verdict in deciding treatment.

Some think there is no way out and tragically commit suicide.

For me, it took a LOT of trial and error to find the right balance of medications and other therapies to get me well. All of it improved and saved my life…it was over time. There is no such thing as a quick fix. If someone thinks they can come out of severe depression with no therapeutic remedies, they are not seeing the big picture or reality. It is dangerous to offput meaningful treatment because we are talking quality of life and distortion of thought.

Someone close to me was suffering with mental illness. Was hospitalized and medicated. This person fell through the cracks and now does not have anything to do with family because they offered tough love. The person dug heals in and it is a very sad state of affairs. This person had many demons is a lost, misguided person.

I’ve seen it, experienced it. The heading of the post strikes me. I looked at the post because of the group it belonged to. Surprised to read. It is flippant to denounce something that helps a great many souls from killing themselves.

Depression is a soul sucking dis-ease that can cripple a person and wreak havoc on family and friends from the fallout from no treatment or self medicating where people need to know, there is hope.

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Never do something final for a temporary situation.

There is no quick fix but must include a dedication to self to want to get better and not deny there is something very wrong while in treatment. Must continue because it requires commitment to health and life.

I remember when I took a lot of meds to help. Over time many were tapered as I grew healthier. Eventually something clicked. There are a lot of people who will never know what ails or what fixes but I can say it’s taken an army of therapists over time to teach me skills to retrain the brain. It eventually worked. But that was because I never gave up. There were times I thought about it but knew it was not the thing to do.

Many lose hope. Once that happens, they need watching… All that said, medications are needed as are good qualified professionals. A team is needed. Can’t break the system. It’s a chain of events that helps and saves many.

It saved me.