Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders
I do not know how many people here have &quot;Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders&quot; but I am on disability for all three and it runs in my family on my mother&#x27;s side.<p>So what is this article saying? Me and my family just do not have perseverance? That we lack the &quot;will&quot; not to be depressed and anxious? That I just need to &quot;Aspir[e] toward personal and career goals&quot;? HA!<p>No, it&#x27;s not true. You see, they found we all have a genetic disorder (GCH1 Deficiency). After I yelled at my doctors for years to look more deeply they finally found that it was not that I did not have goals, but that I needed a low protein diet and some medications that a psychiatrist could not give me, and now I am doing better. Now I can have goals.<p>So while this article might be true for some people with situational depression, I hate these studies because people always said crap like this to me. I was &quot;lazy&quot; and just needed a hobby, and on and on. They psychiatric association does not recognize, still, that mood disorders can be caused by metabolic issues. When they say I do not have enough serotonin and I ask them why they looked at me like they were in Psych 101. And these articles make psychiatrists lazy, putting all the effort on the patient while they sit back and collect check after check.