Doctors don’t fully understand what they do to the brain. We are learning the hard way through suicides and chemically altered moods that are not addressing the ROOT problem for ANY depression.
Prozac saved my life in college. It saved my marriage a few years later.
The fact is that sometimes the chemicals in your brain can be out of whack, not unlike insulin in your body. No one blames the diabetic for some sin that is bothering them, yet so many assume that depression is caused by some unresolved sin. I am certain that in many case in this country, simply making yourself right with God IS what the patient needs, but certainly not in all cases.
OK BAA, what are the root cause of depression. It is a chemical imbalance in many patients, How would you treat that ?
Suicide rates have been slowly declining since the early 1990s.
And, amazingly, enough, people were killing themselves before there were any psychiatric drugs at all.