The depression can be generated by response to an event such as the death of a family member, losing a job, breakup, moving out of a country, or as a result of a blockage in a neurotransmitter that requires the use of psychopharmaceuticals as regulators or known for antidepressants. And yes, nothing is done with consuming drugs if they do not acquire coping skills, but for that there are psychologists.
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Yes, professional help is always good. But also, that depends on the person, it should be a case by case basis. I had friends who went through terrible traumas and overcame them, and grew from them on their own. If you read my post, you will see that my position on that is that one should always professional help when we really need it, but that should not be a crutch that prevents you from growing psychologically by putting all the responsability on a third person. Mental health and learning how to manage your brain is a responsability of each one of us, and while there are some really nasty psychiatric conditions out there that require the use of hard pharmaceuticals, most of them do not. There is a tendency to prescribe those with the same levity as aspirin(I´m not saying that every psychiatrist does, just that is a general tendency). We live in the culture of the quick fix, and that is not always the best road to take in the long run. And btw, I HAVE done therapy and I did went to both psychologists and psychiatrists when I really really needed help, and it helped. Then, after 10 years of consulting a variety of them, my last one tried to greatly foment a dependency to her(of course, I had given her a paycheck every month for a long time), but I was feeling well and stable at the time. She said I would relapse into my own problems if I did stop seeing her, and guess what? I didn´t. I´ve been more than 10 years stable and depression free, and learned how to overcome a whole other variety of psychological problems(I also speak of that in the post). I´m not saying that most professionals try to create dependency, but some out there surely do, as did mine. I don´t repent going to therapy though, but honestly I think I should have evolved therapy(and psychodrugs) like 5 years sooner.
Anyway, that was my personal experience, and now that we´re in agreement that its ok to seek professional help if you really need it(as I stated in the main post, but I´m restating here in case it wan´t read thoroughly enough). Also as I stated before with the metaphor of the computer technician(and leaving the really bad cases of physically induced mental problems out of the example), there are a great many people who are just too lazy to learn to properly use their own computer, let alone their brain, these people will live and depend on professional help because of their lazyness. There will always be a need for a great number of proffessionals. :D
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