Makes you wonder whether they'll go into remission for a while and then slip back into depression if the environmental factors are still there. I guess if it can knock you out of a depression where the trigger is no longer present but the trauma persists, that's incredibly valuable, even if the mechanism seems very strange.
Actually being depressed can worsen environmental factors. Depression can make it hard (or impossible) to maintain work, relationships, hygiene, sleep, diet, and exercise. Losing the things can make the depression worse.
Anyway Doctor was explaining the damage to lungs and odds of survival, but I was totally chill about it thanks to Prozac.
Plus side doctors finally believed me that I wasn’t making up stroke symptoms.
Sometimes depression has a real cause that needs dealing with.
Every mind issue is also a brain issue, and so there is no actually boundary between the "real you" and an ailment --- it's an arbitrary division influenced by social norms.
I am no expert but I understand medical ethics is more trolley problem type stuff than issues like this. Similarly is the fact the many psycological ailments are highly culturally specific but the DSM just sort of assumes American context and doesn't go into this.