Unlike the Greeks, Freud believed that people must bring about the removal of the negative themselves. The Future Further research will be done on depression. Its insidious cause may be recognized. Perhaps someday it will be able to be prevented. Until this break-through occurs, the physiological explanation of depression seems most attractive and most merciful to the patient.
Medication takes time to work and the depression can be a lingering condition.
But gradually light dawns and life once again has brightness.