if someone doesnt get treatment for depression, will it eventually go away?

Answer 1

"lou", you are a crazy fellow. I think you need help. Seriously. It's quite scary.

Answer 2

/////////The best way to see mental disorders is as a series of varying degrees of depression and stress. Mild stress produces an excellent person for creativity and performance. More depression saps the energy and creativity that these people once had as they leave the neurosis level and become bipolar. There are three levels used to describe Bipolar. Then the imbalance of chemicals made by your own brain plays havoc with the whole control system. The auto brain or lower brain can aggressively access messages that were kept from it earlier. As the depression continues and more and more logic substitutions are made the mind goes into a full psychosis where ideas are disassociated and language decays. The end result of psychosis from severe depression is schizophrenia which has been described as incurable . There are of course are always a few people who have been able to recover mental stability. The greatest learning step required for all levels of depression recovery is to see that society as two groups . Study what you group are in and stay with your own kind to find peace and happiness.

Answer 3

That depends if it is situational depression (caused by circumstance. IE. broke leg, loss of job, death of friend, money woes) or depression caused by chemicals in and around the brain.

Situational depression can go away. Easier with Therapy. But can turn worse.

Depression will not go away and only worsen and progress into additional physical damage to the brain furthering mental illness.

The long to affects of depression is worse than the ease of treatment.

It is said that being unhappy (depressed) causes permanent brain cell damage. How sad or depressed must one become
before all sense of reality is there?

Treatment can be as simple as setting reasonable goals, to talking with someone, or taking medications to treat the imbalances in the brain. People could join a group like this or monitored by therapist and post their problems, things they are depressed about. Good therapy. Everyone feels better after speaking their mind.

Answer 4

This depends a LOT on what is causing the depression.
E.g. if someone's abusive parents are causing the depression and they still live at home, it is unlikely to just "go away" because obviously there is no easy escape from an abusive family when you are still dependant.

If it has something to do with motivation, schoolwork, and things like that, yes... it can go away by itself, provided the sufferer puts in the work to make the necessary change to their life and get rid of the cause - ie, they start getting motivated and doing things.

If it's caused by loneliness and isolation, or breaking up with friends/partner etc, yes it can go away - again, after the sufferer makes a change to their life. So if they go out and make new friends and socialise, or even just get out by themselves and do activities to keep their minds occupied and make their lives more fulfilling, it will go away.

If it is caused by something physical, like a problem with the thyroid gland causing a hormonal imbalance, then no. It will not go away on its own, it will need medication to correct the imbalance.

Overall, no... depression does not just "go away" by itself. Recovery from depression ALWAYS involves some sort of change to the persons life to eliminate whatever was causing them to be depressed.

Treatment for depression, ie counselling, is the best thing to do because a lot of the time when you're depressed, it is very difficult to motivate yourself enough to make changes in your life - or to even figure out what changes to make. Adding a 3rd party (the counsellor) gives you a lot more perception about what is going on, and provides you with someone to look out for you when you are in a state where you can't look out for yourself.

For depression I would always recommend treatment of some sort, or at least talking to someone about it.

If someone put a box in the middle of a busy shopping centre, and locked you inside it with no food and no water, then put the key outside, it doesn't make much sense for you to stay quiet and try to rattle your own way out does it?
Not when you have 4320483290 people walking past who are able to reach the key and let you out.

All you have to do is ask for help.

Answer 5

If some one does get Rx for depression, will it have any effect.What is the most distressing, that the meds are so very strong, can really bend your head and maybe in noway effective. Depression can, and does, go away with the arrival of some type of success.Those Brits under Iranian control are all probably depressed. When they are released, those very same Brits, depressed to the limits of human endurance, shine like new pennies when they are released.

Answer 6

It's hard to say definitively. But, logically, I would say probably not any time in the near future.

Look at it this way, why live with such a debilitating disease longer than you have to? As someone who has struggled with depression my entire adult life, I know how bad it feels and how quickly a person can lose control of his/her life. It just isn't worth it. For me, I wish I didn't have to take pills to treat my depression, but I do. I would rather be happier and on pills than in despair and off of pills. I have never had my own bouts of depression go away on their own and if you're seriously depressed, you probably need treatment, too.

I know it is quite a conundrum... best of luck to you!

Answer 7

It depends. If it is situational depression, it would get better when the problem went away or became resolved.
It can also get better if the person makes changes in life...like dietary, exercising, better life choices, etc.

If the depression is chemical there needs to be treatment or it could be chronic and debilating. Chronic depression is just like having another illness that needs to be treated.

Answer 8

I have been under a "shrinks" care for 30 years and have tried just about every pill there is. Guess what, I still get pretty depressed but not to the extremes I did without treatment. If it's a clinical depression forget it--YOU ARE stuck forever.

Answer 9

I've been depressed quite a long time. when i was 19, i got depressed and it lasted more than a year, got better, but when something bad in my life happened, i got depressed even more... Now I've got upside downs, one day I'm quite ok, next day i feel suicidal, worthless. the worst is, that I'm keeping that inside, many people things I'm so strong and fine,but I'm not, and maybe, i will get over my depression again soon, but I'm scared, when it will come back one day. Don't be that silly like me, and get help.

Answer 10

treating depression is an active thing. you have to do something, but you don't necessarily have to get medical "treatment." Working on issues within yourself can help just as much or more than prescriptions. And being depressed and suicidal are very different, btw.

Answer 11

It might...but not for awhile.
And in my case, it went away, but it comes back A LOT.

So, do yourself a favor and go to a doctor. When I started taking Zoloft, I felt better. VERY better. But after a month or so I got really suicidal, even though I didn't want to die.
One day I said, "Okay, I don't care if I die or not...I'm going off the meds." And within 3 days I felt better.

So if you go to a doctor, be careful on the meds...