Theory On Depression , Severe Clinical Depression
Q: Perhaps clinical depression is actually a term that describes a whole group
of illness.
and there are infact many different psychological diseases that are
diagnosed as depression,
for example :
* SAD
* Various genetic subtypes of depression, most likely dormant unless
activated by an agrivating factor, unless the depression is servere.
* post hallucinegenic perceptive disorder.
* MDMA induced depression
* Abuse induced depression, or chronic stress induced.
A:if you believe I think depression is that simple you dont
understand me. First lets get one thing clear here. By depression, I am
specifically talking about major depression or clinical depression. The
kind where basic bodily functions have begun deteriorating. I dont know
if youve ever had that sort of severe depression. I surely have but a
lot of "depressed" people have never gotten that severe before. These
people have what I would describe as a milder, non clinical depression.
This type of depression is in my opinion the type of depression most
have. It hardly qualifies as a medical emergency. However, the major
depression that I and some others have is a medical emergency and it
can literally kill you and make you disabled. This type of depression
destroys basic, central nervous system controlled, physiological
functions you normally take for granted and dont even think about
(sleeping, eating, sex, cognition).
Now that I have clearly spelled out what I exactly mean by the
word "depression" I should tell you that major depression is a severe
brain disease. It is a medical condition where your brain has
deteriorated and basic bodily functions we take for granted(sleeping,
eating, sex, cognition) begin to degenerate. If not checked with
medical treatment, death will soon follow. With depression, necessary
medical treatment is needed immediately, just like any other major
medical condition. What happens with other, non psychiatric medical
conditions if you let them go unchecked and untreated? Oftentimes you
die. Well that is usually what happens with unchecked major depression,
you die. Clinical depression is mother nature's way of slapping you
upside the head and telling you "HEY, you are one sick person."
I was in the rTMS clinical trials under neuropsychiatrist Dr. Mark
George. This guy is also a radiologist and is heavily involved in
imaging the brains of severely mentally ill people using functional MRI
scans, PET scans, SPECT scans, etc. He and other scientists like him
are trying to develop the technological capability to clearly image and
differentiate the various types of severe mental illnesses...the severe
major depressions, the bipolar manic depressions, paranoid
schizophrenia, severe anxiety disorders like OCD and also alcoholism
and addiction problems. What George told me is that they can clearly
differentiate a severely clinically depressed brain image when they
compare it to a brain image of a healthy non depressed person.
The MRI images clearly show major, fundamental differences between
severe depression and healthy brains. LIke night and day.
Increasingly it is being determined that severe major depression is a
neurological or neuroendocrine type medical condition. One
that "positive thinking" and talk therapies little to no no control
over. Dr. George has been quoted in Newsweek as stating that he wouldnt
be surprised that in ten years time, the scientists will have
discovered ten different sub types of depression, each with its own
specific diagnosis and its own specific treatment plan.
Most of your brain damage was caused by your SSRI use. Prozac
killed