Originally Posted by
Cow 
I hope can be interesting discussion here. As person with severe, intractable and, thus far, untreatable depressions, a question often come up for me: Can my brain/mind overcome it own mental illness?
I don't think it is possible to overcome mental illness, but I think it's possible to lessen some of its effects and/or manage it.
I've suffered from severe depression. While I couldn't get rid of the depression, I did things that helped. I set goals to help me feel like I was accomplishing things and I exercised, which gave me some reprieve. I also found that not focusing on the depression itself helped and finding things to look forward to, helped.
Many days I didn't want to do any of these things, but I made myself do them any ways and they did help.