Lexapro

[Dogmama]

Depression isn't a disease. It's a process. It is, as you noted, multifactorial and includes developmental, emotional, environmental, and biological elements. The medical model of disease - alleopathic treatment (eg drugs or surgery) - cure doesn't fit because it isn't a disease.

I have to respectfully disagree. Insulin doesn't cure diabetes. Is diabetes, then, not a disease, just a process? People take a pill and, as you said, continue to live in dysfunction...

I hesitate to stigmatize people who need antidepressants. I would not stigmatize a person who takes insulin. Certainly, diabetes can be helped with exercise and diet. Depression can be helped by therapy. But cured? No. At least, not yet. Although, many years ago, we performed lobotomies, but there were definite side effects...