Depression is a listed mental disorder which includes altered mood; it may occur daily associated with diminished interest or pleasure in most or all of the activities.Depression is considered to be a disorder. This is because it involves everything in the patient’s body, mood and thoughts.Anyone who has this won’t be able to eat properly, sleep well, think about oneself and practically do anything.Depression affects teenagers, pensioners and everyone in between; married people, single people, rich and poor.

Depression is an illness and has to be treated. It will not just go away. Depression can be cured by proper treatment. You are not alone. Millions of people across the world suffer from depression.

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When we start to feel bad we would love to see a definitive guide to how bad we actually are. The Anxiety of your loved ones increases by the day. You obviously are the last person to know. All around you, family,friends,colleagues and loved ones know you are in trouble. Addiction of Alcoholism and the bottle and pill has reduced you to a bumbling wreck. You get sick of their moaning and have a few more drinks and/or pills. Recognise this scenario? No doubt you do. Anyway one boring afternoon I decided to try and put together a little device to try and help us all. It’s the 1 to 10 Scale of Misery. See what you think.

1.We are all born on a 1. Probably lasts as long as it takes you to have your first moan about your life. i.e. why is my Dad making those funny noises when I want to sleep.

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My mum is 52 and for about the last 8 years she has been drinking heavily, i personally think she has all the symptoms of depression and is foolishly self medicating with the alcohol (which we all know will make things worse as alcohol is a depressant) She insists that she is just fed up with life at the moment, not depressed, but for at least the last 6months she has been crying every day. I went to the doctors with her last week to try to get them to help in any way they could but they have blamed everything on her drinking. Yes she is a heavy drinker and yes she has in the past had problems with it. But i dont know of an alcoholic who can just give up on a whim and have no ill effects. She quite frequently will stop for weeks but thats coz she wants to not because she has to. Do you think anti depressants could be an option? If she were to have a couple of cans of larger would she suffer any bad effects?
P.S.
Im in England

Ten years of working with different therapists has not helped. Antidepressants (luvox paxil lexapro) also not helped. Xanax with alcohol gives some temporary relief. Also spent $500.00 on tapes from Lucinda Bassett. Are there any institutions out there with any success stories?

Please don’t mention medical or psychological treatment as I’m not interested, as a man

1) Will someone with clinically diagnose depression ever be cured?

2) Is there anything you as a person can do to help lessen their burden?

3) Alternative medicine? Though I’m not sure it would work since it’s clinical…

4) What triggers it?

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can alcohol cause depression? I drink about once maybe twice a week but heavily and lately i’ve been feeling really depressed could the alcohol be responsible?

I am on Effexor and am experiencing several symptoms of depression but I do drink several times a week so I wanted to know if it’s because of the alcohol or I am becoming immune to the medication (which has happened to me before.) Thanks!

yesterday i got drunk, not because pf peer presure but because i wanted to drink. today i feel like sh*t. i know its normal to have one the day after, but i cant stop thinking of how my old ex was. she been on my mind wayy alot. even though i thought i was completely over her. the memories that make me sad comes to my mind every second. am i depressed or is this a hangover