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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
If you have diabetes, you treat your insulin levels, if you have depression you treat serotonin levels (simplified, but you get my point). Why is the brain and it's complex chemical workings any different than those of the liver, kidneys, blood, etc?
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Because, as MBC pointed out, mental afflications can affect your mental ability to seek treatment. Physical afflications that have no mental component do not. Rarely do serious physical afflications have zero mental component, however ... so those, too, can affect the ability to seek treatment.
Not nearly so much, I would suggest, as a mental afflication as serious as imminently suicidal.