Psychiatry...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn0mgisV ... el&list=UL

And also on the same channel see an interview with a psychiatrist though be warned it's pretty disgusting... like the person is like evil yet a pyschiatrist... 'yet',..

About depression . . . a general practitioner once told my mother depression can start off situational and become biochem. And to me, this has the ring of truth.

Now, I have read that the first antidepressant may not be the one which works for a person and that it typically takes 4 to 8 weeks to tell. And also that it's sometimes important to step down from the medication in stages even if it doesn't seem to be working.

I have struggled with bouts of depression. I have not yet tried antidepressants, but I'm a lot more open to the idea than I used to be.

i think mindfullness is best for depression. also if you're really depressed you're not even aware you're depressed. your tone scale is a the apathetic level... ther'es no concept of good or bad living. i think one becomes very logical in this state and is possibly even a state that one is meant to go through as they come out of it good. you can't change depression by doing things only by mental things. namely imagination - don't just read words feel them as what they actually are. it's called experiential thinking. when see the world as grey stop seeing the world through your real senses and mentally experience.

of course what i'm talking is kind of just increasing your happiness because i think a state of depression is just a very low level of excitement (happiness). i'm not talking about like feeling angry, sad, etc all at the same time that's the stuff that eventually puts you in depression ie lowers your baselines state.

IMO, the problem isn't that mental illness isn't real, it's that we throw around labels as though they mean nothing.

We need to separate "Problems" from "Disorders".

Problems would be things like situational depression or anxiety. Probably most personality disorders.

Disorders being pervasive, and chronic conditions that do not change with external stimuli. Autism, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, etc etc.