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You're right, but depression is so tricky. It can help to treat the symptoms short term, which can enable you to treat the root cause long term.


Exactly that, and depression is rarely just the one issue, or rarely has just the one cause; if you're depressed because of e.g. poverty, just taking pills won't solve the root cause. I mean it might break a cycle and be a first step towards a better life of course, but that cycle could be broken by better circumstances as well.




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