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A serious illness
Clinical Depression, it can’t just be shrugged off.
This article is not about clinical depression treatment
It is more about how those who do not suffer from depression react to those who are clinically depressed. I felt I had to write it after reading a recent article by my medium friend Randy Pulley.
I must admit, for several years, I was one of those people who thought depression was self-inflicted. That it somehow displayed a sign of personal weakness, and those who were depressed were just feeling sorry for themselves.
But two people changed my attitude towards sufferers. The first was a colleague, and the second: my step son.
Both of these people taught me that being depressed is a medical illness, an illness as real as influenza or stomach ulcers.
Without getting too technical, it is believed that depression can be triggered by a chemical in balance in the brain. I just point this out to underline the fact that clinical depression is a real illness, not something imaginary.
There are plenty of symptoms that can show when somebody is suffering from a bout of depression. There are two I witnessed that brought home the physical side of it to me.
