[not-an-ostrich]

Another Affective Spectrum Disorder. It's the brain chemicals, not abuse causing these disorders. Once the "physcologist" leave this to real doctors (medical) there might be quicker treatment and recovery.

[webstersII]

"Another Affective Spectrum Disorder. It's the brain chemicals, not abuse causing these disorders. Once the 'physcologist' leave this to real doctors
(medical) there might be quicker treatment and recovery."

The medical doctors can't get to the root of this problem. All they can do is treat the symptoms. The root of this usually involves feelings of guilt and self-hatred, that's why people self-mutilate because it refects what they think ought to be done to themselves.

The brain chemicals are depleted due the depression and anxiety these people feel. Adding back in what the body is missing due to depletion doesn't change the fact that the depression and axiety are what causes the chemicals to be depleted in the first place.

I personally know someone who struggled with this for a number of years, starting when she was a teen-ager, and medications relieved some of the symptoms but she didn't get any better until she dealt with abuse she had suffered growing up. You might recoil at the thought of doing some "touchy-feely" therapy, but medicine is only useful for disorders like this if it is used to initiate treatment and/or save someone's life. Having someone take anti-depressants for the rest of their lives is just treating symptoms.