Re: Depression, and its Cure.
I would like to Thanx Cressi for taking his time out and giving out tips for resolving depression in the light of Quran and Sunnah and alsom from his experience.
With that I would like to share some of my experience too. People who don’t want to read long posts, I apologize.
Cressi has mention that there are soo many reason why a person is tested by Allah (s.w.t) and he is indeed right. From my perspective, I believe Allah (s.w.t) test on something that u r mostly close or attach to.
My life, as most of you say is full of life, meaning I am always happy and nothing to worry about. Thats true, i will not deny it, but as i said b4 Allah (s.w.t) test you on something that you love. Masha’allah I have gr8 family, frens …relatives and i have always been around good people, so no problem here. Since undergrad i always wanted to be a doctor and i worked hard toward it. The thing i forgot in undergrad that life just doesnt end at the point of academics. For me I was wayy too fixated toward my major and my grades. I would sacrfice anything for my school. It came to the point, that i heard if u do Hafiz-e-Quran ulll get more bright and i got selfish and thought if I am gonna do hafiz-e-quran then ill get brighter and can get good grades and can be in med school.
Now, I realize how selfish I was to think like that …no i didnt do Hafiz-e-quran…i wish i could 
Coming to the point, i got tested by Allah only in academically. How? well like this…i would tutor my frens who would not know anything about the class…and they would get higher grades and i would get the lowest one. It sucks…most of u knowhow it feels. It kept on happening…the more i was working hard…the more i was falling down. It gotto the point that i got depression. I end up being in ER and reffered to psychiatrist, it turn out i had a severe form of stress leading to depression. She (doc) gave me ZOLOFT! ( now i know wat zoloft does to brain 
) I took one pill of it and i was flying not literally but i felt nothing is better than this.
Alhamdullilah, mera dimagh thikana aya aik pill layna kay baad..and i thought ot myself..wat th ehell am i doing? To take away my depression i am taking help form this ll 25 mg pill? isnt there better cure than this? Subhanallah, I realized that ONLY and ONLY ALLAH (s.w.t) can help me go through it.
I prayed to him. I devoted myself to him and i totally trusted him. I realzied no matter what happens, ill say ''alahamdullilah" b/c it is indeed from HIM.
Just by realizing that..my life started to change…i came back ALIVE to my life where i wanted to be. My grade got better. Subhanallah, HE opened the doors for me wherei wanted to go.
So, the moral of the story is eveyrone has their own tests…some realize it and some dont. No matter what happens, as Cressi said keep in mind trust Allah, you trust HIM and HE WILL BE THERE FOR U ! Insha’allah!
Jazaka’Allah Cressi 