"There is nothing known in the universe that exist without a cause (except perhaps the universe itself.)

These pharmacutical companies are even claiming a cause. They claim the cause is a chemical imbalance but other science shows that to be complete bullshit or at the very least scienitifally unverified."

But assuming a cause doesn't make it a known cause.

Situational depression is grieving over a dead child.

Clinical depression is when you have every reason to be happy and a wave of sadness washes over you. If this is a repeated thing, its considered an illness.

Though, strangely enough, humans can rationalize anything and invent causes where there aren't any understood causes.

In split-brain experiments something funny can be introduced to the right hemisphere. This can produce laughter. But because the consciousness you think of as "me" exists in the left hemisphere, it will explain why it laughed even when the laughter came from another mind inside the brain.

The excuses always sound pretty lame, "The color white is funny, don't you think?" Its just grasping at straws.

But so too would be the rationalizations for why "clinical" depression must be situational.

The brain is electrochemical. And mood can be induced with an electrode.

Our JD420 recognizes the chemical causes of depression.

The error is in assuming that the chemical changes created by antidepressants had an affect when it turns out they didn't.

Several years back, they were left scratching their heads over WHY antidepressants worked. That's not uncommon. Sometimes we know THAT a drug works and WHAT it does without knowing HOW the activity it induces provides relief.

But that was back before they better understood that the chemical activity caused by antidepressants contributed nothing to their effectiveness. ( Except in extremely severe depression exacerbated by psychosis. )

Dante