when do you treat depression?

I have a qustion that is bothering me: if there is a link between manic-depression and creativity i.e. if sometimes the overwhelming emotional struggles can result in highly creative insights, how can we know where to draw a line in treating a disease that can turn into a gift? Approaching extreme depression as a higly maladaptive (combination of) reasoning patterns and learned behaviour and from there trating it in a rational fashion alone - must take us away from cosidering what it can result in.

Would it not then, in such a case, the success of CBT be a failure of a creative possibility that left alone might lead into non-ratioanal solution.

How does one treat Newton or Dostoyevski?

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Re:when do you treat depression?, by Jim Pretzer, 04/24/01 Re:when do you treat depression?, by Willie Deuel, 04/26/01

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