“The situation that led to the depression is still there.”
Yes and no :-). What you are describing is not “depression” per say. Depression is due to a sick brain. It can be related to all sorts of problems, but the underlying cause is, for lack of better terms, a sick brain.
Some medications work wonders for some people. It’s not fair to state that these medications mask an underlying problem in all cases. Sometimes the problem is a chemical imbalance and the medication solves that problem much like an insulin injection solves the problem for a person suffering from diabetes.
Having said all of that, I am fairly certain that the diagnosis of depression is used far too often and the medications are prescribed hap hazardously in many cases.
I’m sure this task force will be motivated to label anyone that is feeling sad “depressed”. It’ll have to create a big problem to justify its existence. It’ll dumb down the diagnosis and new regulations surrounding “depression” will screw with our freedoms.
I am beyond sick and tired of politics screwing with medical science (hell, science in general). It’s wrecked autism (and related) treatment ... looks like they want to cast a bigger net as all of us at one point or another has “felt” depressed.
If 40% of my fellow citizens are depressed and probably many of those on anti-depressants, it's over for America.
Exactly. it’s called Situational Depression, and it’s NORMAL. It lasts for an indefinite period of time and then it goes away. Suppose your job is making you depressed. Do you really need to be medicated to enable you to continue on that dismal path, when all you really need is to GTFO of there and you’ll feel better instantly. As Freud (I think) said, there is no cure for the human condition.