THERE ARE 14 MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS ALL CLASSIFIED AS MOOD DISORDERS.
DEFINITION OF DEPRESSION ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION: Depression is more than just sadness. People with depression may experience a lack of interest and pleasure in daily activities, significant weight loss or gain, insomnia or excessive sleeping, lack of energy, inability to concentrate, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
Depression is the most common mental disorder. Fortunately, depression is treatable. A combination of therapy and antidepressant medication can help ensure recovery.
Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology
DEFINITION OF DEPRESSION: N. Severe despondency and dejection, accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy.
HOW MANY TIMES HAS THE GENERAL POPULATION SUFFERED FROM SEVERE DESPONDENCY AND DEJECTION, ACCOMPANIED BY FEELINGS OF HOPELESSNESS AND INADEQUACY? 10,000 TIMES OR MORE IN THEIR LIFETIMES!!!!!
DESPONDENCY: N. A state of low spirits caused by loss of hope or courage.
DEJECTION: N. A sad and depressed state; low spirits
HOW MANY TIMES HAS THE GENERAL POPULATION LOST HOPE AND COURAGE IN THEIR LIVES AND SUFFERED A SAD, DEPRESSED, STATE OF LOW SPIRITS (THE NON PHYSICAL PART OF A PERSON OR THE SOUL?
TALK ABOUT LOW SPIRITS! THE PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION CAN EVEN BE ACCUSED OF PRACTICING VOODO MEDICINE AND USING SPIRITS OR NON PHYSICAL PARTS OF PEOPLE TO DEFINE OR EXPLAIN THEIR DIAGNOSES!!!!!
SPIRITS: N. The nonphysical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.
AND AFTER ALL THIS VERBAL DIARRHEA THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY OR BALLS TO SAY- “Fortunately, depression is treatable. A combination of therapy and antidepressant medication can help ensure recovery.” RECOVERY FROM WHAT? A TRANSIENT MOOD DISORDER?????
TREATABLE MY ASS!!!!! THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HOW TO TREAT DEPRESSION BECAUSE IT IS NOT EVEN AN ILLNESS BUT A MOOD DISORDER WHICH ONLY LASTS FOR A FEW SECONDS OR NOT MORE THAN AN HOUR AND THEN THE MOOD DISAPPEARS IN MOST PEOPLE!!!!! AND THE DRUG PUSHING PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION RECOMMENDS TREATMENT WITH A COMBINATION OF VERBAL DIARRHEA THERAPY AND ANTIDEPRESSANT MEDICATION OR HARD CORE ADDICTIVE DRUGS DESIGNED TO MAKE AN OUTRAGEOUS PROFIT ON THE MINOR MOOD DISORDER MISERY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!
CONCLUSION: A mood disorder is not a mental illness as long as it doesn’t persist indefinitely but has periods in between where the mood disappears for a few hours or days. If the mood disorder is not permanently experienced then radical behavior modification in lifestyle is the answer to the problem and not psychotic drugs or mediocre verbal therapy which doesn’t change the underlying cause of the depression. Leading a dysfunctional lifestyle causes the depressive moods.
Sending people to rehab centers where their lifestyle is radically changed such as to a farming lifestyle or a programmed set of new daily activities which teach new behavioral skills which can be used in society to improve your lifestyle is the answer to over 95% of depressive mood disorders.
Scheduling a new set of daily behaviors to correct or eliminate the mood disorder is what is required to cure the disorder and not medication which just masks the problem and makes it worse with severe side effects.
Yes, radical expensive behavior modification for a period of one or two months is necessary to start to cure an old depressive mood in an individual and there is no quick fix drug medication and verbal communication which will cure the underlying cause of the disorder as the psychiatric profession wrongly claims.
Reprogramming bad behavioral habits and replacing them with good behavioral habits is the only permanent cure and solution to bad behavioral mood disorders!!!!!!
Patients should be taught how to shop for, prepare, and eat healthy nutritious certified organic food, do housework on a regular basis, exercise regularly, care about personal hygiene, learn better parenting skills, learn better human relationship skills, and start to learn new useful knowledge and skills which will be useful in a new and better job.
A new daily physical routine or schedule for purposeful mind and body development is essential. Purposeful useful behavior will give hope and optimism in a patient and ultimately eliminate the underlying cause of depression which is dead end purposeless behavior which most patients are doing and experiencing mood disorders which accompany such depressing boring bad behavior.
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