Q & A: Is There a Cure for Depression?
Wednesday June 10, 2009
Right now there is no cure. Antidepressants correct the chemical imbalance only for the time you are taking them. As we come to understand it more, I think there will be a cure or at least treatments that are more tolerable and more targeted to the actual problem. Right now treating depression is a bit like trying to perform a delicate surgery with a butcher knife. It works, but you get a lot of unpleasant side-effects. I envision that future treatments will become more like scalpels than butcher knives.
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My son Danny used to have a double dx
to deal with, until he overcame one of them and it is really blowing my mind that he has actually beat it! My son suffers from Major depression w/ some mood swings but not too many and he also at one time suffered from Autism, Asperger’s to be concise. Jenny McCarthy also has a son who suffered from Autism, but he,
also overcame it. At first when I
heard her story, I just could not believe it, as I really thought that,
Autism was something that nobody beat; It was something to me, that indicated non fatal, but life-long. All through his childhood, his Asperger’s took precedence over his depression, but that’s just how the schools handled it. I guess it was easier to deal w/ Autism, rather than
depression. Socially easier also go figure. Anyway, even though my son is
free from being a prisoner of Autism he is a prisoner of depression. I shouldn’t call him a prisoner, b/c he actually, broke through those walls and is able to deal with his depression on his own, and of course,
with a therapist and pdoc.
Is there a natural cure for depression? I’d like to think so. The problem is there are so many symptoms of varying degrees. How does anyone know what to do and where to go?