Hi and good morning to you!
Depression indeed has a paralyzing effect. It's really terrible and I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm also glad to read you'r no longer depressed.What factor or factors finally helped you out of your depressed stupor?
Good morning! :D
Honestly... I don't remember. I don't remember much of that time period at all. I've been sitting here trying to recall what helped, and I can't quite place a specific factor.
Actually... I think it was the birth control pill. That's when it all started. And when I stopped taking it, my hormones and emotions reverted to a normal human cycle, and things became clear again. Ten years of controlling medication designed to help the woman // Ten years of depression that increased in severity every year until I literally could cope no longer.
((But I've kind of digressed from the original topic, haha.))
But it goes to show that depression can be caused by any number of things, whether it's a chemical imbalance, a terrible burden in one's life, a medication that one may be taking, etc. And there is likely something that can be done to help relieve it/fix it without resorting to euthanasia in that instance.
It's interesting you mention birth control.
A lot of woman start taking birth control pills on a young age and you are not the first one I've heard say that it is a world of difference if you use them or not. It especially seems to be terrible for the libido. For some woman I've talked to it was quite te revelation as they could barely remember a time before taking them.
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge however. But maybe it just seems that way to me, being a man.