by Ron Busby

Created on: July 20, 2008

There can be many causes for depression, basically it stems from a feeling of worthlessness. While not all forms of depression are caused by the same set of circumstances they all seem to have one common denominator. When a person is at the onset of depression, which can be triggered by many different events in thier life, they should seek medical help immediately.

Depression is a serious condition that affects many areas of one daily life. Speaking from personal experience, because that is all I really have to draw on, I have concluded that depression comes in many forms and for many different reasons. It all started for me when at the age of 39, I had my first of 5 major heart attacks.

Being the sole support of my family, my wife did not work outside the home. I started to feel as if I had let my wife and 3 young children without any way to provide for them. Certainly not in the manner in which we had grown accustom to. We did very well for ourselves being that I owed my company and was very good in my chosen field.

Our income was cut off to zero as I was unable to handle even the simplest of daily routines. The doctor had prescribed a couple of medicines that were supposed to help me maintain and learn to deal with this depression, along with several others meds for my heart condition. It didn't work for me. As soon as I would start to feel as though I still had something positive to contribute in the workplace, boom, another heart incident would happen. Over the course of the last 9 years I have had open heart bypass surgery, not to mention numerous angioplasty procedures resulting in eventually having 7 different stints put in my heart, legs, and even my left kidney.

I slowly became to feel less and less like a man that could provide for his young family. I say young because my wife and I had our first of three children when we were 30 years old. After making well into six figures a year for many years it was both degrading and demoralizing to have to go on public assistances. Imagine having few if any money problems for many years and then have to rely on food stamps to feed your family.

Thoughts of suicide began to occur more frequently. However, being a Christian and knowing in my beliefs that it was a sin, it was not a viable option for me. For 2 years I could not work and we had zero income, not to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses and about $600 a month in medication costs. It took 2 years and the assistance of an attorney to

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