If I asked you to take out a piece of paper and list the top three killers of men and women what would you list? Which three diseases make the grade? Would you be shocked to find out experts estimate depression will be the 2nd leading cause of death within the next fifteen years? Depression is being identified in an alarming rate of people across the world. Some experts estimate that as much as 75% of the world’s adult population suffers from depression.

This is a disturbing number to say the least with the number of cures for depression being toted on the market. You can’t turn on your television without seeing some type of advertisement for an antidepressant. Would you like to hear the scary part? Some of these pricy medications have failed so poorly in clinical trials you might as well go buy a bottle of St Johns’ Wort from your local drug store or Wal-mart. That is not to say that if you are suffering from a serious form of depression you should stop taking your medications but if you are just being diagnosed with depression and the first thing your doctor does is toss a script for an antidepressant your way I’d recommend you question why he or she has prescribed this medication and what about it makes him or her think it will do the job for you. Too often medical doctors act as dispensing machines handing out so called cures for depression as if they were no more than pez tablets. This can present a serious risk to your health. As a child my mother was prescribed a certain well known antidepressant to help with her bipolar depression. A few weeks later she overdosed on the prescription and parked her car under and overpass as she waited to die. Luckily a passerby spotted her and called 911. She was in a coma for three weeks. Later we learned the medical doctor who prescribed the medication had no business doing so. He had no real background in mental health and only ran a general practice. The medication he prescribed was known to trigger suicidal tendencies in bipolar patients. What should he care though? He got paid by the insurance company just the same.

I doubt this man really intended any harm to my beloved mother but rather he was just doing what he was taught, passing out cures for depression as if one size fit all. Every patient is different and as such cures for depressions must be custom fit. There is no easy method for determining the most effective mediations or treatments. It can often take months or even years of careful observation to get it right.

There is hope though. Depression, in the majority of people, can be kept under control and the patient can go on to lead a normal life. With the help of certain cures for depression that are really more along the lines of treatments depression can be held in check. Many people suffering from depression make the mistake of stopping their medications or treatments when they start to feel better. This is a mistake that could very well cost them their lives. Just like when you take an antibiotic and start to feel better you need to finish the medication an antidepressant works the same way. Once the medication is in your blood stream you may feel a noticeable improvement in your mood. Rest assured, if you stop the medication it will come out of your bloodstream and you risk hitting a new low never before experienced. Cures for depression are nothing to play with. You should always seek medical advice before starting or stopping treatments or cures for depression. These professionals are trained to track and record the changes in your moods or behavior and make adjustments accordingly. Self diagnosis is not recommended when it comes to mental illnesses. If you are not thinking clearly already why try to gray the facts by prescribing your own treatment. If you do feel self help is the only way I’d recommend first doing thorough research before ingesting any type of products.

A Cure for Depression

If you had all the money in the world what would you do with it? Buy an island? Build a mansion? Travel the world? How about discover a cure for depression? Unless you have met with personal tragedy resulting from depression I highly doubt this thought every crossed your mind. The reason it crossed mine is simple. I have lost friends and family members to this horrid illness. The youngest of which was just 20 years old. I will tell you a little about these people not to shock or horrify you but to bring a tiny taste of the loss suffered by those suffering from depression.

The first person I’ll tell you about is my grandmother. Her name was Shirley but I of course only knew her as mama. I have few memories of my grandmother except a few of riding to the gas station to get candy and one Christmas when she bought me the coolest toy motorcycle ever. These are not the thoughts that come to mind when I think of her however. No, instead I think of the night she changed my life forever. She and my grandfather had just finished off one of their many fights of the time and he had left to go drink himself into a stupor. Whatever happened pushed my grandmother over the edge because after he left she pointed a 9mm handgun at her chest and pulled the trigger. She was 43 years old. What would a cure for depression have done for her?

The second person I’ll name is my lovely mother, Angela, who I thank for giving me life. Shortly after her mother committed suicide my mom changed. At 26, she was a wonderful mother of three children. She and my father had a terrific marriage and from outward views we were the perfect family. My mother however never came to terms with her mother’s suicide and with time it began to eat away at her. One day when I was eight years old I stepped off the school bus to be greeted by my neighbors. My father had taken my mother to the hospital. She had apparently eaten an entire bottle of prescription medication. After pumping her stomach the hospital was proud to announce she was going to be alright…at least physically. Over the next few years she underwent treatment after treatment and suicide attempt after suicide attempt. Fast forward, 15 years and we come to result of my mother’s depression. My mother did not drink or use drugs. She was an avid Christian. What happened to her? Years of overdoses and mental anguish led to a series of health problems. Those health problems claimed her life at 48 years old. Would a cure for depression have helped save her life?

The last person I want to share with you was a classmate of mine. We went to high school together and ran in the same circles of friends. His name was Justin. Justin was an average kid with average grades and average ideas of fun. He liked to run around, chase girls, and party with his buddies. He was no angel but then no one really is as a teenager I suppose. Justin met Lynn around the time he turned 19 and his whole life became pleasing her. Lynn was a sweet girl and like many 17 year olds was only interested in having fun not settling down for the rest of her life. Long story short things became too serious too fast and the relationship ended. Justin struggled to cope with the loss but no matter what he did he couldn’t find enjoyment without Lynn. One day after his 20th birthday Justin placed the barrel of a gun in his mouth and shot himself. The shot did not immediately kill him. Instead his little brother heard the shot and broke down the bedroom door to get to his brother. What he found was Justin bleeding to death in front of his eyes. By the time paramedics arrived it was too late. A cure for depression could have spared Justin’s life.

There are many illnesses and they all need cures but a cure for depression is at the top of everyone’s list if they have been touched by it. The illness is not fully understood and for that reason extremely difficult to treat. The sooner a person reaches out for help the better off he or she will be. Don’t wait.

A cure for depression is the only way we can save millions of lives affected by the illness. Simply treating depression just will not do. We must support research aimed at finding a cure for depression before it spreads to epidemic proportions. No one is safe from this terrible illness.

Cure for Depression

Do you know someone affected by depression? Or perhaps you are suffering from depression yourself. If so how important is a cure for depression to you? Would it be worth fifty dollars, a hundred, maybe a thousand? I’d imagine you feel as I do. There could be monetary value on what a cure for depression would mean. No more struggling to get out of bed. No more unexplained feelings of guilt or hopelessness. No more feeling worthless. How greatly would your life improve if you could get your hands on a cure for depression? What would it be like to be happy again?

These types of questions are present every single day of someone’s life when they suffer from depression. Many of us get sick. We go to the doctor, get a prescription, take our pills, and boom all better. Although we may whine about it the few days we feel under the weather is nothing compared to the person suffering from depression. This illness is never ending. It is there when the person opens their eyes to wake up and it is there when they close their eyes to go to sleep at night. I promise you a cure for depression is never far from these poor souls’ minds.

Many of us will never have to deal with such hardships and if we had to may not make it through. People are being hit hard by the economic problems facing the world today and perhaps none are hit harder than those in the automotive industry. My brother happens to be a sales manager for a new car dealership here in town. He has saw as much as a 40% decrease in his income over the last 12 months. This has been difficult for him but somehow he has managed to work through it. Just last week I stopped by the dealer ship to ask if he’d like to go eat lunch. I told him a step out of the office might be good. He agreed. As we sat eating our all you can eat china buffets he shared a sad story with me. An associate I had worked with in the past had passed away. He was a young man barely 40 years old and had three children. I was shocked, what happened I asked. This gentleman was the proud owner for a small car dealership. When gas went up people stopped buying cars. When people stopped buying cars his business started to suffer. After a year he was dead broke. No only could he not make his business obligations he was having trouble putting food on the table. What was his answer? One day when his business partner went to lunch Stan locked the doors behind him and took a seat in his office chair. He wrote a letter to his family, folded it, and sealed it in an envelope. A few short minutes later Stan ended his life with a single shot from a .357 magnum. Unfortunately he wasn’t lucky enough to die right away. When his partner found him and called 911 they were able to get him to the ER in time to save his life. He lived on life support for three days in a coma. Finally, the family had to make the decision to take Stan off life support. I couldn’t help but think to myself what a waste of life. If only there were a cure for depression this could have been avoided.

I don’t tell you this sad story to bring sympathy for myself or Stan. I tell you because depression is a worldwide problem that has no age, sex, or racial limitations. No one is safe from this imbalance. We need to find a cure for depression. We need to save our children. A cure will not be a quick process. It will not happen overnight. There will be hard work, sweat, and tears involved but if we don’t take the necessary steps to find the cure for depression today then we leave it to our children to find it tomorrow. What would have happened if our parents and grandparents had left it up to us to find the vaccination for polio?