Permanent cure for depression, does one exist?

Question

find it more difficult to pick yourself up after a difficult time, when on your own, got no one to pick you up

nursesr4evr, can you build those by eating a particular food?

Answer 1

No, it does not exist! The only way to cope with the symptoms is through medication and therapy.

Answer 2

Well, it depends on how you define depression. If you have been diagnosed by a doctor with clinical depression or some other type of depressive disorder, then there are anti-depressants to combat the illness. Although anti-depressants help with depression, keep in mind that they only treat the symptoms, they do not get rid of the problem. So, if you decided to stop taking anti-depressants, which most people do when they feel like they are getting better, you most likely will resort back to that initial depression feeling. There is another option, but I don't think it has been FDA approved. At Emory University, there was this study done a little over a year ago where they sent electrical impulses to a part of the brain called "area 25." "Area 25" in depressed patients, shows low activity whereas in normal patients it is an active area of the brain. They decided to stimulate this area with a small electrical impulse to see if it would help clinically depressed patients with their depression. More than 50% were actually cured from depression entirely after a couple of treatments. Some patients only felt slightly better, but still experienced depressive episodes. This article is listed in Scientific American, but I can't remember which month it was published. Well, anyway, there are anti-depressants for now and exercise, etc, but hopefully in the future there will be something that actually cures this illness!!

Answer 3

No! No such thing as a permanent cure!
I had never realised I had been diagnoses so often through my life with depression - and usually the treatments worked fast and well.
It is only the latest bout that actually made me ask more about it and my doctor re-iterated it all to me.
I think that once a term of depression is over - it is actually easy to wipe it from your mind - and once you do this, you forget why you were walking 2 miles every day (cycling, running, swimming, joining the choir, beating the rugs on the line, whatever) and you lapse back to not doing it and opening youself up to further events,
HOWEVER - just exercising - although it really is excellent for depression - cannot stop it from happening again if you go through a bad time - it helps - it isn't a cure - there really is no such thing!

Answer 4

Yes but you have to work on it. This book helped me along with using anti-depressants.

"You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay.

If you do the exercises in the book and force your mind to change your thought pattern, eventually, your mind will take on the positive outlook and work more efficiently.

It is a form of cognitive therapy and it works. If you've had depression for a long time then it is a matter of undoing years of negative thought patterns and change your way of thinking completely.

Chris B: What you have described in your answer IS the cure. No, there isn't a shot or waving a magical wand because we are dealing with the mind but there is a way that your mind will never be depressed again. It doesn't have to be a life sentence that you are in fear of coming back periodically.

And as "cuteness" wrote, exercise is good maintenance. It is a matter of looking after yourself - mind and body.

Answer 5

There are no specific cures as depression is rarely specific. However, the good news is that you can get it to a manageable level! It takes a good GP and your effort too to work through all the options. My Best Friend has depression and she will always be on anti depressants - for the most part she is happy enough and when she is down, she calls me! She lives alone as a preference not because of her depression necessarily. The key is also to have good support around you when its needed. But you have to help yourself first before others can really be of use to you. I hope you make it..

Answer 6

Bronnimoose: What is YOUR lazy *** doing on Yahoo Answers in the mental health section? Shouldn't you be out and about telling diabetics to toss their insulin, telling cancer patients to stop whining about how much pain they're in, and telling handicapped people to stop being lazy and just jump out of their wheelchairs and run a marathon?

Instead of ignorantly attacking those of us with a very real and very painful illness, go thank God that you can't identify and pray that you or someone you love won't someday experience the horrors of depression, something that afflicts even the most intelligent, talented educated and hardworking people. It's just that we have to try ten times harder to acheive anything that non-depressed people take for granted.

Go back to the Stone Ages. Your head already seems stuck behind a rock. How arrogant of you...to think.that just b/c you don't know what it's like to be depressed and you haven't had it, then it must not be a big deal. I'll bet if you had major depression, you wouldn't let anyone forget it.

And don't call depressed people lazy. You're the lazy one....maybe if you did two minutes of research on the subject you could learn something besides ridicule.

Answer 7

Below are some tips on overcoming depression. Believe me it works.

Make yourself busy. We all need to feel like we're involved in something significant. We need to participate in something outside ourselves. You might consider volunteering at a local women's shelter or food pantry. That will elevate your mood as well as your self esteem.

Exercise is good for us, but physical contact is equally important. Exercise affects brain chemicals, and the healing touch of physical closeness does too. If you're depressed, hug somebody - anybody, everybody! A hug is good medicine. It reduces stress and tension and it boosts your immunity to illness. Hugs raise self esteem and lower blood pressure. They feel good and make people happy. And they're free! Hugs are the universal language that communicates love and acceptance. They're healthy for the "hugger" as well as the "hugee."

Take up a sporting activity like walking, cycling, tennis, golf, water sports, riding, gliding, sailing, football, badminton. Something with a personal achievement goal. Spectator sports do not count and have little value for the purpose of defeating depression. Like alcohol (with which they are often associated) and television, they are simply ephemeral distractions. Depression cannot exist when the adrenaline is surging. Try bungee jumping.

Avoid substances that are unknown to cause mood swings or depressionlike alcohol, caffeine, chocolate and high sugar foods.

Learn to laugh. It really will make you feel better. Visit a local joke shop or toy shop. Buy books and magazines that you find entertaining and amusing rather than just educational. hire a funny video and invite one or two friends round to enjoy it with you.

Build up your self-confidence. People who suffer from depression often lack self-assurance. Write an advertisement for yourself listing all your good qualities. Carry your advert with you and look at it whenever you’re feeling down.

Have a pet. The pet, however, be it a parrot, a cat, a mouse or a dog do not have this problem. They love their ‘master’ unconditionally and this is fully reflected through their behavior. It is much easier overcoming depression and making your way back to normalcy when you are faced with the exceptional love of a pet (or more). It was observed that people whom pets were given want to become better, want to become useful, want to love back and hence slowly escape the clutches of depression and return to their old selfs.

Talk to someone about it. A problem shared is a problem halved. Have you ever felt better by getting something off your chest? Of course you have. Did talking about a problem in the past help to put it into perspective and perhaps make it easier to deal with. I would guess you have probably been there too. Depression is no different. Find someone you can trust and get talking about it. Friends, family, your doctor, support groups both online and off....You might even find that someone comes up with an idea you have never thought of which just might work for you.

Answer 8

Over the last five years I had begun to have increasingly withdraw into a downward spiral of depression..

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Answer 9

There is always a "permanent cure for ANYthing in life!"
The permanet cure I found was Knitting. Yes! I found that when I knit I don't hear NOTHING. I get so involved with whatever I'm knitting that I don't hear the phone, door-bell, washer, or dryer. I'm totally in My Own World.
You will have to FIND something that U enjoy doing & Do It No Matter what's going on around U. Loose yourself it whatever it is that U enjoy doing. That's how I got over my depression.
Good Luck & God Bless!

Answer 10

Been there, done that. There isn't a permanent "cure". What you have to do is get yourself out of the situation that leads to the depression. If you have to take medication to help you do that, to see that there is a way out, then do that. Get help, therapy, counselling, whatever it takes. Anti-depressants are a short-term fix, but they do help. Only you can do it, nobody's going to do it for you but you don't have to do it alone - there's help out there if you want it, and are prepared to accept it.

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