Agreed Nathan.
Oddle, I hope you are still around and surviving, hope you may one day thrive.
The following may or may not relate to you.
Some depression is entirely endogenous, and no amount of 'uplifting advice', or self-help is of use, including 'nature'.
For some, it is the most crippling and debilitating condition, and is totally physiological, little or no psychodynamics relevant.
The whole body and metabolism slow to almost a halt, medical intervention is often the only way out if so. It is understandable why
suicide is seen as an option.
One in such a state though is often incapable of active suicide but is probably dying anyway.
Thinking is also slowed down and is profoundly despairing or nihilistic, I remember in my student Nurse days working on an acute ward, and
some of the Patients, particularly one old man, whose condition was as described above.
All treatment options had been to no avail, the anti-depressants at the time, were not effective for him, he was far beyond any "talk therapy"
The only intervention as a Nurse one could do was just 'sit with him at least being a human presence.
As a last, life-saving resort he was given ECT with dramatic success, it was an object lesson to me with a previously closed mind about
such treatment.
Just as 'Oils ain't Oils', "Depression" is a term for a group of similar illnesses, it is a mistake to be too dogmatic, and draw conclusions
related to the experience of one or two people. Oils may not be oils, but People ARE People.
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