> ...some of those with the condition may not look further to identify potentially-addressable causative factors. I believe in the hypothesis that depression i

> ...some of those with the condition may not look further to identify potentially-addressable causative factors. I believe in the hypothesis that depression is [more often] a symptom rather than some sort of organic disease. I would also lump anxiety into the same category for what it is worth. Before people get up in arms, I want to clarify that I am talking about the majority of cases of depression, but not all. I am not disputing the idea that in some cases depression could be caused by something more intrinsic, but I am inclined to think those cases are rarer than many claim. A common motif amongst quite a handful of depressed people is that there is some internal belief that they have no reason to be depressed because everything in their life is going well, and they have no reason to be depressed. However, when one peels back that onion -- layer by layer -- I find that, often times, those people might actually have a legitimate and underestimated factor which might be a major contributing factor. My completely pseudoscientific hypothesis is that anxiety and depression are signals. Much like pain, when the signals are firing, then body is trying to alert one that something has gone awry.