Depression may be a normal reaction to various levels of environmental causes. Depression serves as a protective symptom with the purpose of conserving energy and assisting in healing. Depression is also a disease treated with medication. Depression as a grieving process. God designed depression to deal with life's losses normally.
Reactive depression is a response to loss.
Depressed persons need permission to feel the loss as deeply as those who grieve the loss of loved ones. The route to recovery involves giving ourselves the permission to feel the way we do. Proper response to depression Counselors and depressed persons will agree that the grieving process is very difficult for the person. Do everything you can to support them during this time. The depressed person is encouraged to receive and embrace depression within the scope of God's healing purposes.