The longer the depression lasts, the more important it is to seek treatment.
Treatment can alleviate the severe distress and accelerate the exit from the situation.
It is also important to "minimize damage" to work relations and functioning that can lead to more problems (livelihood and more ...).
Treatment sometimes allows depression to be used as a "springboard" for a change that a person is looking for in his life and that depression expresses.
thank you for your thoughts
Don’t you feel too that the longer the depression is the harder it is for the person to seek treatment?