And for them, asking for help is a sign of weakness. When in fact, they've asked for help many times in their professional careers to solve problems. |
ECT works in many patients in which anti-depressants don't work, ... ECT works faster than anti-depressants, and after 40 years we still don't know exactly how it works. |
So they tend not to take as good care of themselves, both physically and psychologically, and in the end that takes a toll, |
There's another factor that we don't often think about, and that's the frequent travel, the jumping across time zones, jet lag. We know that disruption in sleep-wake cycles is another precipitant for depression. |
They drive themselves inordinately more than other individuals do. |
They unfortunately depicted ECT in a barbaric, primitive and completely unrealistic view, |
They view this not as a true disorder but as some kind of weakness of character, and if only they could just pull themselves up by their bootstraps they would be fine, |