Grief is a normal reaction to death of a loved one.
Sadness for no reason, that persists for weeks or months or years, that interferes with your ability to live your day to day life is not normal.
Talking therapies help most people. Medications help some of the rest. For extreme cases ECT (electro convulsive therapy) might help. There are other extreme interventions being looked at such as vagus nerve stimulation.
Leaving people to experience these feelings of hopelessness because we do not want to interfere with their right to be depressed means some of them will die by suicide; or by neglect or alcoholism; and many of these people will not live their life to anywhere near their potential.
J.G. Ballard wrote a short story where psychiatry had been outlawed to prevent people having their rights to honest emotion interfered with. (I can't remember what it's called but it's good!)
Grief is a normal reaction to death of a loved one.
Sadness for no reason, that persists for weeks or months or years, that interferes with your ability to live your day to day life is not normal.
Talking therapies help most people. Medications help some of the rest. For extreme cases ECT (electro convulsive therapy) might help. There are other extreme interventions being looked at such as vagus nerve stimulation.
Leaving people to experience these feelings of hopelessness because we do not want to interfere with their right to be depressed means some of them will die by suicide; or by neglect or alcoholism; and many of these people will not live their life to anywhere near their potential.
J.G. Ballard wrote a short story where psychiatry had been outlawed to prevent people having their rights to honest emotion interfered with. (I can't remember what it's called but it's good!)