HuskyPup

In some cases they do, but many doctors and other practioners also treat depression with changes to diet, exercise, sleep patterns, talk therapy, physical therapy, acupuncture and other approaches.

And of course, doctors are going to be more likely to look for disease, because that's more or less what they 'do'. From another perspective, we might look at alcohol abouse through other lenses, but still arrive at approaches that help the individual without labeling it a disease. I don't see what's so horrible in not seeing it as a disease, so long as we are working towards a solution that works for the person in question. Why should it bother anyone that somebody else chooses not to see it as a disease?