Charting the Depths

unfortunately the problems these children will face just get worse with age, as some research shows that adults with juvenile onset depression are often resistant to treatment...so I wonder if with time those treatments that, as you hinted at, are seldom state of the art out in the community, stop working in the face of recurrent depression...

We are living in a dysfunctional society and generation after generation will be affected by the way are living and thinking. Depression is one illness of many affecting young people; anxiety, alcoholism, drug addiction, over eating,shopping addictions, etc.

Some of the blame is in the therapy profession. I doubt that the better, more competent therapists out there have any idea how many of their colleagues are just plain not good at it.

Ummm...has anyone thought to consider that these people have real reasons to be depressed?

Why do we focus on the individual as the problem that needs to be fixed?? Maybe these young people are the canary in the coal mine....hinting at us to notice that perhaps its is Society that is insane....not the individuals.

I fully agree with this article, although I think it should also mention the research done by Giovanni Fava, showing that anti-depressants might actually diminish the chances of ever achieving full remission. I'm also curious to know what directions you think should be taken in this battle. Do you think that the SPECT imaging of the Amen Clinics are the future, or do you think it lies in more pharmaceutical advances?

I recently lost a good friend who had struggled with depression from the time she was a child. Each episode seemed to get worse, last longer, and be more resistant to treatment. She ended her life at the age of 51. I hope over the next few years, more research is focused on this devastating disease so that we can truly cure it, not just alleviate the symptoms for awhile.

Debra Stang
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Depression is an inherent and vital protector of the body and it is misunderstood and in ignorance we try to cure it when we should look at it from a different perspective. Of course depression is recurrent, it comes when it is needed to save us from emotional-physical exhaustion.

If this comment is looked upon as SPAM then I fear for the ones that are suffering with emotional distress syndrome.

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