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popeye wrote...
Lifelong major depression...is there a cure? I have dealt with major depression and PTSD since I was 10 yrs old. The depressions last 3-6 years. i was not diagnosed or treated until I was in my 20's. Some AD's have helped but it doesn't seem to shorten the length of depression. The pattern is depression... about a year of feeling better, a good year and then a year of downhill moods, followed by rock bottom. In 51 years I have had about 23 years of no or low...
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