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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (14369)2/3/2002 10:18:34 PM
From: Moominoid  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
I have a theory [as always] that depression is a similar manifestation of frustrated identity where the external world won't match the internal identity of the person, leaving them disappointed, frustrated, angry and often suicidal as they live an eternal loop of failed expectations which they can't escape because they are trapped by their early childhood experiences which gave them expectations they've learned to believe are part of their identity.

Maybe that's the case in some instances but it is too general...

I don't believe it's a chemical imbalance or other nonsense like that, which is a way of moving 'the blame' from the person to an external agent, as though it's something that 'happens to' the person and an external agent can 'fix'. I do think an external agent can 'fix' the problem, but it's an environmental change which will probably conflict with the person's self-identity, so they'll resist the change anyway.

Drugs do help because as I see it the depression becomes self perpetuating - some event or whatever may trigger it but then it becomes a partly chemical self-accelerating process. Drugs break the spiral and help the person work their way out of the hole they got dug into...
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