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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 1366582" data-attributes="member: 5834">reI have a friend who is "clinically" depressed. Medication has done very little for him because life circumstances haven't changed. Life circumstances often cause depression and cannot be changed by medication. About the only thing medication will do for you is dull your mental and emotional state to the point where you may not be as sad or happy as you were before. Medication is more like painkillers for a broken arm rather than a cure.If perhaps you could give information on the circumstances of your life that you feel might be causing your depressed state, more insight could be offered. It's probably best that you find a local counselor.Ultimately, it is through human interaction and kindness that you might be able to feel better. We uplift we each other to a  great degree and some people need more uplifting than others. I'm not sure where you are from, but America is hard a place to find help in because society is fast paced and lacks compassion quite often. We've decided its better to pawn folks off to the doctors or the church for help rather than spend the time to help a person feel better in a local community. I've a friend currently suffering from depression who is probably in exactly the same circumstances you are: he is staying alive for his mother and sister. The man's father ran out on the family years ago and isn't helpful. He feels alot of stress to take his father's place but hasn't been able to successfully. He has take social drugs and pretty much engaged in self-destructive behavior his entire life. He has been babied by his mother to the point of being unable to care for himself. None of this has helped, and has only led to the constantly depressed state he finds himself in now.It's real important that you do an inventory of your personal life. Start taking control of it.Life can be very rough and depressing, especially when it seems to bring no joy, just day after day of struggling to survive with no hope or happiness. We find happiness in other people,  our parents, friends, children, or even  strangers at times. I would really recommend entering group therapy sessions, joining a church that does volunteer work or offers plenty of extracirricular activities, or perhaps a secular volunteer service. Keeping busy helps escape the pit of depression, but the only way to fully heal depression is to change your life circumstances.</blockquote>

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