Depression and anxiety are often diseases!

There's an jackwagon who is cocksure depression and anxiety can only be due to one's attitude and not caused by a disease, and he doesn't want to hear another viewpoint.

Too bad.

There are situations that can be depressing or at least a "downer."

But there are also chemical imbalances in the brain that can produce depression sometimes far worse than the depressions caused by a stressful circumstance such as a death or a divorce. Some people feel depressed for no "reason" at all, yet their depression can be far more severe than the situational depressions.

To try to lump both types of depression into one nice little basket is short sighted.

There have been lots of cases where a person was depressed but their spouse started secretly adding nutrition to their coffee or food. The depressed person miraculously snaps out of it without making any effort not realizing that they were given a nutrient combination that changed their metabolism and their brain function.

Our other organs can become organically sick. Our brain is an organ, and it can become organically sick, too.