Depression Road

Truthfully, I have never seen a person with depression who doesn't have some other mental and/or physical condition. There are many studies, one of which was published in JAMA Psychiatry , that we have a 1 in 5 chance to experience depression in our lifetime.  The findings indicate comorbidity (existing together) with other psychiatric disorders as follows: substance use disorder - 57.9% previous anxiety disorder - 37.3% personality disorder - 31.9% This study also points out that we have an increased rate of self-medication with other substances like cannabis.  Personally, I use nicotine (my addiction) and Nutella. Depression is also very common with people who have physical illness. Here is a fairly simple read from the Medical Journal of Australia  that discusses the complexity of having depression and physical problems. The gist of physical illness and depression is that there is a pretty good chance of: - having both - medicine often treats the ph...