Hmm - that one is tricky. I do believe in mental illness for sure. Mental disease - whatever you want to call it. I believe that sometimes wires get crossed in ways they shouldn't, either from before birth of due to trauma in childhood. I think it's important to try to get at the root of the "dis" ease. I also believe medication has helped millions of people, so I am not one of those who thinks psychiatry is the devil incarnate. Bu I don't think there is such thing as a "cure" to depression. I think each of us who suffers can get well, but not without the work it takes. And that may mean confronting things you wish would go away without having to face.