[goat granny]

I am not roman catholic either but decades ago had clinical depression and if you have never been in that hole so deep even prayer doesn't get out, don't be so judgmental. Its as great an illness as any other. Unless you have the privilege of seeing cat scan’s of brains during and after such illness's, you best not bring religion into it. It cannot be cured by religion any more than cancer can. It takes medical intervention and the proper medications to get the brain back within balance.

I find it amazing that other illness's no one doubts, but anything that has to do with the brain is somehow not really an illness...Too many people fear such things and therefore poo poo it...Be careful my friend...

[Amerikan_Samurai]

I totally disagree with everything you said. I believe I did suffer from depression in the past, and once I took my eyes off myself and placed my trust in Jesus Christ, my life changed. I do not claim to know where those souls are that committed self murder, I am not the Judger of souls, but I can refute what the culture and what society and the status quo has to say about matters pertaining to the Truth. And while I do believe in true medical conditions; I continue to question whether suicide is driven by such medical conditions. I am not bringing “religion” into this, I trust in Jesus Christ.

[Sto Zvirat]

am not roman catholic either but decades ago had clinical depression and if you have never been in that hole so deep even prayer doesn't get out, don't be so judgmental. Its as great an illness as any other. Unless you have the privilege of seeing cat scan’s of brains during and after such illness's, you best not bring religion into it. It cannot be cured by religion any more than cancer can. It takes medical intervention and the proper medications to get the brain back within balance.

Exactly, I was raised RC, but I am Agnostic now, I know about mental illness, I worked in the field. Its not a choice, its physiological, prayer won't do anything. Treatment, medication and counseling is what is needed. There are lots of great success stories in the world of mental illness. Its fine to have faith, but, a good Psychologist and the right medications and counseling works.

[Judith Anne]

I’m with you. Clinical depression needs a doctor and medication, to help the mind; a cast and crutches help while a broken leg heals, the antidepressants help while the mind heals. Both legitimately need a doctor.

[goat granny]

My error in my post was in regard to a cat scan, it was a pet scan that records not the physical brain as a cat scan does but how well the brain uptakes the necessary things from the blood stream to function properly..In some patients large parts of the brain are not even functioning while some parts are....they show up as different colors on the pet scan according to how much is functioning normally...