Ray Charles Clinical Depression?
Q: I could not read the complete article, because my reading was causing
me too much pain and sadness to continue. The part I did read
mentioned bipolar illness (periods of deep depression, followed by
periods of great energy). I do not know if she tried to treat her
illness. If she did not, then her death becomes, to me, so much more
the tragedy, because both bipolar illness and unipolar depression are
largely treatable disorders.
A:Yours is a very clear and accurate response. Depression is pure psychic
pain that blinds one from seeing the rest of existence. The only thing I
would add: there is a sub-set of illnesses that are classified as treatment
resistant. I.e. nothing works to alleviate the pain and misery of these
people and the mental health system is painfully impotent for these poor
souls. From the article, she was trying different meds and therapy; but for
whatever reason, they weren't helping her much. And even being under the
care of a compotent doc with a supporting family wont prevent future
episodes from occuring; and for some this knowledge is too much. She may
have been treatment resistant and may have grown weary of the battle, as the
last line of her note said.
It sounds like she may have had bipolar disorder or psychotic
depression.
That is, without a doubt, the best description of what a major depression is
like that I have ever read. I've been there. I know exactly what it is ...
I've used the roller-coaster description myself. Life being like a carnival
ride with ups and downs ... but for the depressed person, it's all downs.
Level sometimes, but always down.
I expect that depression will some day be an illness for which there
is a permanent cure. It will probably come piecemeal, as "depression"
isn't a simple illness that arises from a single cause, but a label
given to a collection of symptoms that likely arise from many
different causes.
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