If actual brain damage is involved, can there be a treatment?
After that I was never the same again, and anxiety and depression, accompanied by obsessive compulsiveness which is not too crippling now, has worsened throughout my life, to the point now that there are very few psychiatric meds I can even tolerate without disastrous and extremely painful effects.
I don't think there is one and simple answer. Depression and suicide run down one side of my family.
My opinion is that people are predisposed to it genetically and environment and the way you are raised play their part as well.
I've also given much consideration to the "sins of the fathers" of the bible, but people would scoff at that approach, but I'm not willing to dismiss it totally.
I saw something on PBS about how they are running studies on embryos to identify the defective gene and either replace it or possibly abort. They showed microscopic replacements on magnified embryos which I believe were human. These may have been destined to be implanted into someone's womb so they could have a "perfect" child. It's been awhile since I saw that program so I may not remember correctly but I found it somewhat chilling.
That's something else that is coming down the pike.
He's been pretty sick with this stuff. I pray that everything works out for him.
In May 1995, I think, in the Reader's Digest, there was an article about this. How can knowledge be lost? It helped me then.
That one-tenth of one percent.
That's a lot.