Is Depression Curable?

Depression

            There are 9 types of depressions. Those 9 types of depressions are major depression, dysthymia, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, atypical depression, psychotic depression, bipolar Disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and situational depression. People say that depression can be cured but it takes competence. I do not believe that depression can be cured whether or not they try.  It will disappear for a second, but it will always end up coming back.

A lot of people look really happy. However, majority of people are depressed and choose to keep their depression inside so no one will know that they have a problem. When people keep their problem to themselves, how can we help them?  When you are outside in the public walking and you pass by people that look like they are all happy, you do not really know if they are depressed deep inside because they are not showing it. People should tell at least one person that they are depress to avoid major depression.

Once a person is depress, they will always be depress throughout their life. One of the reason is because of how a person grew up not having attention from their parents, being alone all the time, or not having at least one person to be there whenever they need someone to be there. For example, my older brother had bipolar disorder and situational depression because he never really grew up having a mom and a dad. Same goes for my sister and I. We immigrated here in Philippines to start a new life without my dad. Since the year 2000, my mom has been working double job to fulfill her children’s needs. While my mom is working, my brother did not really have any attention from my mom so he ended up being depress and end up doing drugs and making friends with the wrong type of people. He had therapy sessions, he was arrested a lot of times, and done a lot of bad things that I would never think he would do. One moment, he looked like he was in a better situation but he ended up doing the same things he was doing. Seeing this while growing up, makes me believe that depression can’t be completely be cured. It can be cured momentarily, but the depression will end up eating you back up because you grew up with it.

A lot of people have at least one type of depression. Whether it is big or small, people still have it. Especially a lot of people nowadays have situational depression, the reason why I say that is because when people end up in a break up it suddenly gets them mentally. This rarely happens but if this depression doesn’t get treated, it can lead to a major depression. Also when a person is being unselfish it also leads to situational depression because that person wants someone to themselves. For example, my friend got into a break up last year and he is still thinking about his ex-girlfriend because he misses her. Every time he looks on Facebook or on any other social network and sees her post a picture he ends up getting angry. For example, he threw away a watch that she gave him for their anniversary because he saw a picture of his ex-girlfriend with a different guy. He then told me that he is over her, but when he sees a picture of her online he ends up being depress and does not know what to do. Seeing this happen to my friend, shows that depression can’t be cured.

            After seeing all these types of depression from my family members and friends, it made me think that depression will not be cured. In the article when depression can’t be cured, it talks about how depression is temporary and passes naturally or once the person has expressed the feelings and resolved the thoughts causing the depression. When I read that sentence, I suddenly want to believe that it is true because of my past. For example, Robin Williams, people didn’t know that he had a depression which caused him to kill himself. This also made me think that even celebrities have a depression. A lot of people have depression, I do not think it will be completely cured.