n at one time in his or her life. Sometimes it can
             be harsh, and other times it can be chalked up to changes in one's life. Depression can
             sometimes be a cause for another problem such as flu or hormonial imbalance and a reaction to
             a tramatic event (17). Ned Gasseuim, a Harvard medical student says, that depression is
             "misery requiring treatment"(19). All that most people will agree on is that it is misery, and that
             without quick treatment, can be devastating.
             One of the most common types of depression is the bipolar disorder, but new studies
             have shown that being a substance abuser can cause depression. The bottom line is, if someone
             is using alcohol as a mood regulator or escape, one will have a serious problem that will only
             get worse if one does not get help. It has also been proven that random use of marijunana can
             stimulate mental illness that had not yet surfaced. Two of the most common mood disorders is
             bipolar and unipolar. Bipolar is a person that can have swings widly from frantic highs to
             humbling lows. Unipolar is when the person only experiences the lows. Both types of
             depression, however, cause a major depressive episodes characterized by bleak moods,
             irritablity, sadness, anger, hostility, and a conviction that their misery will never end. Mood
             disorders are also called an affective disorders(37). Some patients also experience mania-
             intense excitement and mental disorgainization that usually require hospitalization. A normal
             depression that everyone goes through is a serious illness, and should be treated, one way or
             another. Another type of disorder is called a mutiple personality disorder. A mutliple
             personality disorder is a phenomenon in which people devolp various personalities or "alters"- is
             not a valid psychological disorder. Instead, the symptoms of MPD are induced by therapists
             who suggest to extremley troubled patients the possibl...