Ultimately, you can throw medicine at depression, but the root problem is what's causing it.  For instance, if someone's mother had died, then you'd have to say that the mother dying is the problem and the medicine or other treatment is trying to patch stuff up.    Anyway, have people really tried to treat the core problem and if that's the case, then why would they need medicine for depression?

Well, let's look at relationships, if someone is depressed cause their spouse cheated and left them with no possible way of reconciliation, then medicine will help, but ultimately the depressed person has to get over it and move on and, in that case, medicine wouldn't be needed after the last stage.

I don't see the point in medicated depression treatment when just a exercise, a better environment, and nutritious food might do the job.  For instance, it's a known fact that just going out and doing something physically greatly improves mental health.   Anyway, the medicine they give for depression seems like too much and how do I  know?  Well, I took it in during my junior year of high school.  It was something like prozac.  It really buzzes you up to much and it probably played a role of why I got in so much trouble, lol.

Of course, as of now, I don't take anti-depressants, but the many things I do and the environment I am in keep me from being depressed, but in high school, honestly, it wasn't a good environment because I didn't have a strong image of who I was at the time. I suffered from massive inferiority compexes despite the fact I took martial arts during my freshman year and had some good classes with fun times.

Well, one positive thing, but it's not really positive if you know what I mean, is the fact the soldiers aren't too connected to other soldiers.  I mean, it's not their wife or kids or, for that matter, anyone they know personally, in many cases.  However, though, it's still horrible when comrades die, however.  Myself, I cannot imagine what it's like to be in combat cause I was never in the military due to medical conditions.

Anyway, I can't understand PTSD.  The closest thing I know that civilians would experience is heartbreak from relationships or the death of really close loved ones.

Now, expanding on the matter, some things in war are so horrible, it doesn't matter if there's a personal connection.  For instance, I have relatives who had fought in the Vietnam War and there's no telling what horrors they saw and it's tough to get that stuff out of your mind.