thats why i initially suggested depression spike could be temporary reflection of adjustmnt period wherein we adapt to new modes of being...
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I see depression more as a long term feedback mechanism.
You only make structural adjustments when you're really fed up with the situation.
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good observation. i think for many ppl who have ~healthy psyches this is true. for me depression is usually a signal to change something
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Or is depression something that just happens to some people whatever their situation and making life changes serves to ward it off?
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In tougher times, perhaps the fact that you felt like you had a reason to be miserable made it easier to deal with? Less guilt?
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And if you had more immediate control over your day to day life, perhaps it was easier to make those changes that helped placate depression.
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before modern medication, depression tended to last about 6 months, then lift, though for some people it would return on occasion.
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this pattern is also the case in nations without access to modern psychiatric treatment.
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I suspect there are other causal links than just medicine, although medicine definitely plays a big part in fucking people up iatrogenically
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there was a major book written on it, the thesis of which was that in fact the drugs do fuck people up seriously
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That would not be in dispute anywhere if not for the pharma industry being permitted to pay researchers without suffering consequences, IMO.
Or do the drugs, in some cases, merely prolong the recovery process such that what should have been an episode becomes chronic?
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None of these drugs have effects that could be described as "mere", Gavin, or they wouldn't have any effect at all.
Altho iatrogenics isn't well understood. A doctor recently told me to have a surgery to remove my appendix... because of mild stomach pain.