What is Depression?

Depression is a mental disorder where a person has a prolonged period of sadness, unhappiness, helplessness, hopelessness or worthlessness. These feelings often get worse over a period of time, causing a person to have feelings of self-doubt, severe despondency and dejection.

Depression is an extremely common illness. There are approximately 350 million people living in the world today who are affected by it and it is the leading cause for a visit to see a GP or doctor. Depression also has a stigma attached to it that people who suffer from it are weak which leads to them not seeking treatment – less than half of all of the people with depression are currently engaging in any kind of treatment for it. Long-lasting and moderate or severe depression can be a serious health condition. It can cause an affected person to suffer terribly, leading to problems with work, breakdowns in close relationships and lead to poor physical health.

The worst cases of depression can lead to a sufferer taking his or her own life. An estimated 1 million people worldwide every year commit suicide because of depression. Half of all the people who die by suicide have major depressive disorder.

The World Health Organization have reported that by the year 2023, depression will be the second biggest cause of premature death in the world, heart disease will be the only illness or disease that causes more.
What Causes Depression?

There are many different causes of depression. It has many different triggers and there are multiple reasons it can develop.

Personal Factors are known to trigger depression. Those who have a tendency to worry a lot, have low self-esteem, are sensitive to personal criticism, are severely overweight, perfectionists, or those with a self-critical and a negative mindset all have a higher risk of developing the condition.

Depression has been known to run in families and some people will be at an increased hereditary or genetic risk. This does not mean that a person will automatically experience depression if a parent or close relative has had the illness though. Life circumstances and other personal factors are still likely to have an important influence.

Having a serious medical illness can trigger depression in two ways. Serious illnesses can bring about depression directly, or can contribute to depression through associated stress and worry, especially if it involves long-term management of the illness and/or chronic pain.

Drug and alcohol use can both lead to and result from depression. Many people with depression also have drug and alcohol problems.

Symptoms of Depression

Signs and symptoms of depression include:

• Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.
• A bleak outlook—nothing will ever get better and there’s nothing you can do to improve your situation.
• Loss of interest in daily activities.
• No interest in former hobbies, pastimes, social activities, or sex. You’ve lost your ability to feel joy and pleasure.
• Appetite or weight changes.
  Significant weight loss or weight gain—a change of more than 5% of body weight in a month.
• Sleep changes.
• Either insomnia, especially waking in the early hours of the morning, or oversleeping.
  Anger or irritability.
• Feeling agitated, restless, or even violent. Your tolerance level is low, your temper short, and everything and everyone gets on your nerves.
• Loss of energy.
• Feeling fatigued, sluggish, and physically drained.
• Your whole body may feel heavy, and even small tasks are exhausting or take longer to complete.
• Self-loathing.
• Strong feelings of worthlessness or guilt.
• You harshly criticize yourself for perceived faults and mistakes.
• Reckless behavior.
• You engage in escapist behavior such as substance abuse, compulsive gambling, reckless driving, or dangerous sports.
• Concentration problems.
• Trouble focusing, making decisions, or remembering things.
• Unexplained aches and pains.
• An increase in physical complaints such as headaches, back pain, aching muscles, and stomach pain.

How is Depression Treated?

The most common form of treatment for depression is the use of Antidepressant medication. Nobody can say for sure at this moment why antidepressants can alter a persons mood, because nobody knows for certain exactly how AD medication works. It is only thought that by increasing or decreasing certain chemicals in the brain, such as serotonin, that this has an effect on the brains neurotransmitters.

Currently, 10% of all Americans over 12 years old take antidepressants daily, and among females in their 40’s and 50’s, that figure increases to 25%.

Approximately 254 million prescriptions were written for them in America in 2010, resulting in nearly $10 billion in costs. This figure is also expected to have risen dramatically in the following years.

However, antidepressants do not cure depression, they only lessen the symptoms for a minority of people who take them. A recent report published in The Journal of the American Medical Association stated that the drugs work best for very severe cases of depression, but have little or no benefit over a placebo in less serious cases. It is extremely difficult to put an exact figure on the percentage of people who experience decreased depressive symptoms as a result of AD medication, as reports and results vary wildly depending on the people in the study and their severity of depression, and whether a study is done by an independent body or by a pharmaceutical company. It is thought though, that the overall “success” rate of the drugs is approximately 36% – slightly higher than that of a placebo.

Antidepressants are also known to have side effects for the majority of people who take them. Patients will usually experience one or multiple of the following; nausea, increased appetite and weight gain, loss of sexual desire and/or other sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction and decreased orgasm, fatigue and drowsiness, insomnia, dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, dizziness, agitation, irritability, anxiety, and increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior – especially during the first month of treatment.

Antidepressants come with no guarantee that they will work, on any level of success.

Further treatment options include counselling, psychotherapy or talk therapy. This has a much higher success rate than antidepressants overall, but again the figures at hand vary wildly. The cost of seeing a counselor, therapist or psychiatrist is also very high – the average is around $150-$200 for a 60 minute session. It is not unusual for these professionals to charge upwards of $500 for an hours’ session though – and the sessions usually need to be on a regular weekly basis to have maximum chance of success. It is thought though, that because has a higher rate of success than antidepressants, that it is more cost-effective as a result. Again though, there are no guarantees of success.

Other treatment Options

It is interesting to note, that many health professionals believe there are much better ways to treat depression. Irving Kirsch, the Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and a lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School is quoted as saying; “Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination.”

CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) has a much higher success rate than medication. Studies have shown it decreases severity of depression in most patients who maintain a CBT course, with many patients reporting they never relapsed into depression. CBT based self-help books sees an even larger percentage of success rates and numbers of people reporting to be cured, with very little cost involved – so why is this form of treatment not more widely used?

It seems the answer is quite simple – there is nowhere near as much money to be made from curing depression as there is from helping people live with it. There is little money to be made from a healthy person, or indeed a dead person – however in sick people there is billions of dollars to be made.

Due to the pharmaceutical and medical industry’s wide-reaching influence and the money involved, and due to health professionals who deal with depression and other illnesses being afraid of offering a treatment which may upset those powerful companies, very few are willing to publicize findings that depression can indeed be treated naturally, safely, extremely cheaply and in just a few weeks. One of these few researchers who dares to go against the current trend is James Gordon, a UK-based researcher and former depression sufferer, who is doing a lot of work to try to make these findings available to the general public. He is the creator of the “Destroy Depression System™” [INSERT AFFILIATE LINK], a simple, 7 step guide to self-curing depression naturally using an amalgamation of all the research done in the area, together with his own self-experimentation with which he cured his own depression

Treatments for Depression

Depression is a mental disorder which affects about 350 million people worldwide. Its symptoms include, but are not limited to; Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, loss of interest in daily activities, appetite or weight changes, insomnia or oversleeping, anger or irritability, loss of energy, self-loathing, reckless behavior, concentration problems, unexplained aches and pains and also suicidal thoughts..
Current popular treatments for depression include antidepressant medications and talk therapy such as counseling or psychotherapy. Unfortunately, these treatments have many drawbacks. AD medication is associated with a high risk of side effects and a low success rate, while therapy sessions are notoriously expensive, and often unaffordable or unobtainable for most people.

Medical Treatments

Medication for depression comes in the form of antidepressants. There are typically 4 classes of AD medication, SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), atypical antidepressants, tricyclics antidepressants and MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors).

The SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants. They act on a chemical in the brain called serotonin. The SSRIs include drugs such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil. SSRIs are preferred over older classes of antidepressants because their adverse effects are less severe, however, like all antidepressants, SSRIs can cause an increase in suicidal thoughts and behaviors. They also carry a risk for increased hostility, agitation, and anxiety. In adults 65 and older, SSRIs increase the risk for falls, fractures, and bone loss. SSRIs can also cause severe withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking them abruptly.

Atypical antidepressants are a variety of newer atypical antidepressants which target other neurotransmitters either alone or in addition to serotonin. For example, Wellbutrin blocks the reabsorption of the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine, while trazodone affects both norepinephrine and serotonin. Again, as with all antidepressant medication, there are many possible side effects.

Tricyclics are among the oldest antidepressants. They work by inhibiting the brain’s reuptake or serotonin and norepinephrine. They also partially inhibit the reabsorption of dopamine. Because tricyclics have such a broad mechanism of action, they tend to cause more side effects than the other classes of antidepressants. For this reason, the SSRIs and the atypical antidepressants are usually prescribed first. Again, side effects are usual and severe withdrawal symptoms are often the case if you stop taking them abruptly.

MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) are the oldest class of antidepressants. MAOIs have severe interactions with certain foods, drinks, and medications. Combining MAO inhibitors with foods or drinks containing tyramine can result in dangerously high blood pressure, which can lead to a stroke or heart attack. Because of this danger, MAOIs are not typically chosen as a first-line depression treatment.

As is usually the case with medication, antidepressants cannot cure depression. At best, they will lessen the symptoms of depression. However, success rates are notoriously low, not much better than a placebo in most cases, while the risk of side effects is extremely high. This is the reason many people in the medical industry refer to antidepressants as “sugar pills with side effects”.

A Better, Safer Option

Although very few doctors or medical professionals will know or tell you about it (there is too much money involved in conventional treatment methods), you can actually cure yourself of depression using only CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) techniques combined with some dietary and lifestyle changes. Indeed in the past, a number of doctors and scientists had reported such successes in medical journals, but this research is now kept hidden by the pharmaceutical industry.

For the first time ever, this research has been dug up and used to compile a comprehensive step-by-step guide on exactly what you need to do to naturally and safely cure your depression in just a few weeks – without any medication or expensive therapy sessions. For more information, visit James Gordon’s “Destroy Depression System™”, [INSERT AFFILIATE LINK] where he explains exactly why and how this system works.

Destroy Depression™ – The Depression Cure That Big Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You To Discover!

Depression is an illness that has become one of the most widespread disorders in the world today. It currently affects about 350 million people worldwide – and the problem is getting worse. Around one million people every year commit suicide because they are suffering from depression, and year on year that figure rises at an alarming rate. By the year 2020, depression will have become second only to heart disease as a cause of premature death.

In the United States and Northern Europe, around 10% of people over the age of 12 are currently taking antidepressants to ease their depressive symptoms. Just think about that for a second – If this is the case, if so many people are taking drugs for depression and these drugs are so easily available, then why is the problem getting worse?

Well, it’s quite simple. It is because antidepressant medications for depression are notoriously expensive, ineffective and associated with a high risk of sometimes horrifying side effects – including increasing suicidal thoughts. Unfortunately, people with this condition are often desperate for a cure, and are willing to pay any price tag, even when they are told about the problems and limitations of the medication. Every year, the pharmaceutical industry keeps rolling out new, more expensive and still ineffective drugs. And every year, the profits for the industry keep increasing…

In fact, according to NIMH.com, in 2020 the antidepressant market was estimated to be worth $12 billion in America alone. Every year since it has got bigger and bigger, and shows no signs of slowing down. Meanwhile, the number of people suffering with depression grow at an even more rapid rate. Why is that? Pharmaceutical companies will tell you, “more antidepressants are being sold because more people have depression” – but that is just casting a veil over the truth.

The truth is this; The numbers of people with depression should be coming down if more people are taking drugs to help them, the reason the problem is getting worse is the drugs are not working!

Knowing this, if I told you that there was a way to cure depression naturally, without using any useless medication which makes pharmaceutical companies fistfuls of money, and without any weekly sessions with a therapist which will cost a small fortune…would you be surprised that no doctor or therapist is telling you about it? Of course not! In fact, each patient that a doctor treats for depression is worth around $300 to the medical and pharmaceutical profession each year – it is no wonder they hand out antidepressants like skittles!

Well, guess what, there is such a cure! And it only involves the use of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) techniques which can be done at home, and some dietary and lifestyle changes.

Now, you may expect such great findings to make big news right? Not so. You see, the pharmaceutical and medical industry is driven by profits, not benefits to patients. That’s why they keep designing drugs that are expensive, of limited effectiveness, and that need to be taken continuously for years. That’s the perfect combination for ensuring ever-increasing profits. An example of such shameless profiteering on a large scale is the wide prescription of statins for anyone with even borderline high cholesterol. Statins actually have very limited effectiveness, are associated with a number of side-effects, and…guess what…once a person starts taking them, they will need to keep taking them for their whole lives! Not so surprising is it? If you think about it, when was the last time a pharmaceutical company cured anything? It is the same with the drugs they prescribe for depression – no medical professional or anyone involved in the industry will want you to discover that you can cure yourself of depression for just a few dollars, when they can get you to pay thousands upon thousands in your lifetime for their “latest wonder-drug”, or charge you a small fortune just to sit in a leather chair and listen to you talk for one hour a week, without ever offering any solutions or guarantees.

If you want to know more about the natural cure for depression that the medical industry is striving so hard to keep hidden from you, the go-to guy is James Gordon. Gordon is an independent researcher and former depression sufferer, who in recent years has been working hard to expose the medical industry’s unscrupulous tactics. He has also published the highly acclaimed “Destroy Depression System™”, which you can order directly from his website: [INSERT AFFILIATE LINK].

You are being LIED to about Depression!

Why is it, that people assume the answer to every illness, especially depression, is a drug? Is it because, every single day, we are bombarded with advertisements and news articles that pills made in laboratories by men in white coats are the way to “cure” any ailment we have.

“Overweight? Take this pill. Can’t sleep? Take that pill, Struggling to concentrate? Take these pills, Got depression? Take Prozac, or Fluoxetine, or Wellbrutin, or Ketamine, or whatever other pill and potion we can throw at you to make money!….and oh by the way, you’ll have to take these pills every day for the rest of your life, and they have side effects, so you know what? You’ll have to take a bunch of other pills every day of your life to combat them!”

Every day we are exposed to news and commercials that there is a new wonder-drug which will cure your depression. Every day we are told to take a pill or potion which will magically transform our lives and make us happy. They show us images of a man or woman deep in a pit of despair, struggling with life because of depression, then give you the sales pitch on why their revolutionary wonder-drug will “cure” you, and show you images of that same man or woman running on a beach or riding a horse, happy and content with life.

Those images all look wonderful, they make you think that your life will be everything you dreamed it could be if you just take a pill every day. There is a huge problem with the perfect images they show you and the wonderful things they tell you though:

No Drug “Cures” Depression

In fact, when you think about it, when was the last time a drug cured anything? Polio perhaps?

The truth is, pharmaceutical companies don’t want to cure depression. They make too much money by just giving you pills that help you to live with your illness. You see, there is no money in treating healthy people, and there’s no money in treating dead people either – but there’s BILLIONS to be made from illness and suffering!

All any antidepressant will do, at best, is lessen your symptoms of depression. For the majority of people, they do not help at all. The facts and figures show that in most cases, taking an antidepressant drug is only slightly better than taking a placebo. I would stand almost as much chance of treating your depression if I told you “Here, this drug is awesome and will cure you…” then gave you a sugar pill. And by the way, that would be a much better thing to take every day, as sugar pills do not come with side-effects. All antidepressants come with side effects though, one of which might make you commit suicide!

Taking all this into consideration, you may ask “If the big pharmaceutical companies are lying to us, why doesn’t the government step in and do something?”. If so, good question, however the answer may frighten you.

The government subsidizes illness, they have to, there is too much money in it. Antidepressant drugs are worth over $10 BILLION to the American economy alone and that figure is rising year on year. The government knows this, and will do all they can to keep that figure rising. For instance, in 2007, Hilary Clinton’s Health bill proposal mentioned the words “nutrition” and “exercise” just once – the word “drugs” however, was mentioned 14 times – just like the pharmaceutical companies wanted!

The government is not your nanny, the government is your dealer!

The Way to Cure Depression Naturally

The worst thing about the lies that you are being told though, is that while the drugs companies are making billions from depression without offering a cure, and the governments of the world are encouraging and enabling them to do so, there is a cure. A natural, holistic cure that anyone can do extremely cheaply and without the need for pills or potions. They won’t tell you about it though, and it won’t gain much press, because they won’t be able to make any money from it!

It is called the “Destroy Depression System™” [INSERT AFFILIATE LINK], a simple, 7 step guide to self-curing depression naturally. The products creator, James Gordon, spent 20 years of his life with depression and many of those years on medication. He decided to do something about it by himself, and using an amalgamation of years of research he has done in the area, together with his own self-experimentation, came up with a system that GUARANTEES success…

If you would rather wait for a drug that “cures” depression though, that’s fine. I doubt a drugs company will ever release one though – they are still mad at all the money they lost by curing Polio!

There IS a Cure for Depression!

Depression is an awful illness. If you suffer from it, it can make your life a living hell. Thoughts of self-doubt, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, insomnia or oversleeping, feelings of anger or irritability, loss of energy, strong feelings of self-loathing, worthlessness or guilt, problems concentrating and suicidal thoughts are all common symptoms and can all make life seem pointless.

Then there is the stigma, that even in the 21st century is still attached to mental illness. People with depression are sometimes thought of as weak and stupid and told to “just get over it”, which of course just makes the depression worse. 350 million people suffer from depression globally, and less than half of them get any kind of treatment for it because of this stigma, which is just terrible.

Then, those that seek treatment are given antidepressants to treat their illness. The trouble is, antidepressants have a very low success rate, and even what is considered to be a ‘success’ is just a lessening of symptoms – they don’t cure depression at all. Plus, these pills come with awful side effects. These include a risk for increased hostility, agitation, anxiety and sexual dysfunction. The worst side effect has to be a risk that suicidal thoughts will increase. Yes, that’s right, for a depressed person who may be having suicidal thoughts, the usual course of action is to prescribe them a drug which is known to increase suicidal thoughts! Antidepressants can also cause severe withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking them abruptly.

These drugs also cost a small fortune. Even if you are lucky enough to live in a country with a National Health Service like the UK, you still need to pay for the prescription to get them from the pharmacy. That’s around $15 every 2 weeks, or roughly $400 a year – all without any guarantee of success.

The other options people with depression have are talk therapy, counseling or psychotherapy. While these sessions are known to have a better success rate than antidepressants, they have one major drawback: They cost a fortune! It is not unusual for a top psychiatrist to charge over $800 for an hour of their time, and will usually mean a visit every week. And do these forms of treatment come with any guarantees of getting your money back if they fail? Of course not!

There has to be a better way to treat depression than just throwing pills at the situation or charging ridiculous amounts of money for an hour of someone’s time. There has to be a cure for it, rather than something that ‘might’ lessen the symptoms. We put a man on the moon, we invented the Internet where the answers to almost any question mankind has ever asked can be found at our fingertips, we live in the 21st century for Pete’s sake! There has to be a way to actually cure this illness doesn’t there?

Fortunately, there is….

A guy from the UK called James Gordon believes he has found the cure. He had suffered from depression for over 20 years, and had previously spent years on antidepressants which gave him all manner of side effects without helping, and spent thousands on therapy sessions without success. He finally snapped one day and decided to find a cure for depression himself.

He then spent years researching everything about depression that he could possibly find. He trawled the Internet and read thousands of articles on the subject, searched through dozens of medical books and consulted countless specialists. He even downloaded dozens of e-books and systems written by life coaches and gurus, watched hundreds of hours of videos, talked with people who battled with depression themselves who had recovered, and even met with people who had attempted suicide and survived to hear their stories.

What he ended up with was a 7-step plan which eliminated depression from his life completely in just 8 weeks, and never returned. He has now packaged it into what is called The Destroy Depression System™ [INSERT AFFILIATE LINK] and made it available to everyone with an Internet connection. And he also GUARANTEES it will work. When was the last time a drug company or therapist did that?