What is the difference between people that are in depression and those who are plain lazy?
Depression is not laziness. But depression may cause laziness. There are unfortunately many myths and misconceptions that surround the subject of depression and to a degree it’s still too much of a taboo subject. Myths such as – “depression is all in the mind”, “it’s not a real illness”, “it’s suffered only by people who have a weak character” and “people need to get a grip”. All of these are incorrect and unhelpful. Research using (PET) scans of the brain show physical differences in blood flow to the brain in comparisson to PET scans of the brains of people who are not clinically depressed. Depression is partly caused by a physical imbalance in hormones of the brain that affect mood. Nobody would think that a person with diabetes was lazy, that it was all in their mind, or tell them to get a grip. Diabetes Mellitus and Clinical Depression are both caused by physical, hormonal abnormalities; in the case of diabetes the hormonal imbalance is in the endocrine gland called the pancreas,
