Reply #47: Be sure to get professional help and read all you can about depression

[Mountainman]

I went through a clinical depression that lasted for 3 years. Luckily my wife stayed with me though everyone around her told her to leave me.

Don't listen to those who tell you that you can snap out of it. Depression is an illness like any illness and can be treated.

I refused to take drugs for my condition thinking that I could find a way to deal with it myself but it was the on going help of my doctor that finally got me to a better place.

Also be selective of the doctors you go to. Don't go to a "pill pusher" or someone who only wants your insurance money. Find someone who can see you as a person not a source of income.

Depression is contagious if not treated. It effects everyone around you.

There is mush out there to read. The longer I refused to learn about my condition the longer I made it last. I still have a low grade depression that I take medication for but life is much better this way than it is without the meds. I never really feel happy but I don't feel depressed all the time either.