And then you develop depression (and other FUN stuff) and it gets worse
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Hot take: Depression is not actually a primarily neurological disease so you can't expect to cure it by fixing something in your brain
Yep! Anti-depressants are actually very good at helping a person slow down their thinking for use in therapy. Some sort of therapy whether its CBT or mindfulness or childhood trauma exploration or finding coping mechanisms for daily life, or something else, that's often key to the solution.
I think depression comes from the body and/or nervous system, not the mind.
Sure would be rad if you had any studies to back that up
Would be. Or i could just argue that the prevalent notion of health is too focused on physiological issues, and that in the recent efforts to recognize depression as a valid illness, there is a tendency to reframe it as a neurological disease, rather than validating mental issues as such. As far as I'm informed the neurological processes involved in depression and the effect of psychotropic drugs are not well understood, so there isn't even a basis there to determine what causes what.