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Whats The Cause And Treatment For 10 Year Long Depression?

My son is highly intelligent but has been suffering with chronic depression for about 10 years. He is now 25. He lives with us( his parents) and has a good doctor. My question is how do I handle this..... We have been reassuring and kind and available. I have made him promise not to hurt himself but now he is only willing to say he will try to handle this for as long as he can but he doesn't want yo live like this forever. Why has he had depression for this long? How can we help him?
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Sat, 25 Jan 2014
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In ur son case, he has depression since age of 15 years means it is towards early onset depression. It will go in favor of genetic cause. sometime due to some genetic region, patients develop depression which take time to improve. In this case, he need medicine for rest of his life, but try to maintain his social life like take him everywhere u people go, help him to join some activity etc. It would help him to come on the track. Gradually with this he would get result.

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Whats The Cause And Treatment For 10 Year Long Depression?

hi thanks for using healthcare magic In ur son case, he has depression since age of 15 years means it is towards early onset depression. It will go in favor of genetic cause. sometime due to some genetic region, patients develop depression which take time to improve. In this case, he need medicine for rest of his life, but try to maintain his social life like take him everywhere u people go, help him to join some activity etc. It would help him to come on the track. Gradually with this he would get result. thanks