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How Can We Save Depressed People?

It is alarming that many lives were claimed by depression. Most people think that those who died of suicide were weak because it was their choice -- as if they still had full control of things.  But we cannot tell what really happened to people who committed suicide if few minutes or seconds before total withdrawal they still had that 'choose' choice or nothing at all except total darkness, all black hole.  "It seems wise to avoid judging the self-destructive actions of others," Larry Culliford says in 'Psychology Today'.  " Depression  is a complex combination of genetic, biological, environmental and psychosocial factors -- and is difficult to understand ," according to Markus MacGill, in his article published on Medical News Today. The same article says that depression is 'a loss of joy and interest in doing something' . There is a descriptor -- 'persistent ' -- which means it is continuous for six (6) to eight (8) m...