Posted by SLS on October 14, 2011, at 23:02:53
In reply to Re: Urgent: In a crisis, situational 'bombs', posted by violette on October 14, 2011, at 20:56:38
> I hate to be the one to break it to you, but there is no line drawn between biological and psychological depression.
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
My guess is that you don't see a line because you experience only one type of depression; or perhaps you experience both, but never have done so separately; or perhaps you experience neither type. Do you envy people who have reached a healthy place without needing psychotherapy as an intervention, even though you might?
I have experienced depression in the absence of MDD. Having experienced both types of depression separately and both together leaves me in the unenviable position of being able to know the difference between the two and how they often interact. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but these two beasts are of different species.
Thank God scientists are finally starting to get it right. I have volunteered myself as a research subject to further man's efforts to understand the biology of MDD and BD. My blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and PET scan images are archived at the NIH. I place more faith in the conclusions of the neuroscientists who sucked these fluids out of me than I do in those of psychologists intent on proving them wrong.
Regardless of the interactions that do exist between mind and brain, they are indeed separate phenomena that depend on each other. Quite simply, the brain determines the mind as the mind sculpts the brain. A mind can damage a brain. Once damaged, a brain can damage a mind.
I hope this helps.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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