I usually read the columns in The Daily Collegian and laugh or roll my eyes. I couldn't help but write about Shonna Days's Oct. 29 column mentioning depression. Days writes, "The cure for depression could not be resolved by science alone, because depression is not per se an 'illness,' but rather an emotional state."

Stop hiding your ignorance behind big words and regurgitated religious dogma and do the research on depression.

As researcher Robert M. Sapolsky of Stanford University said, "This is not about self-indulgence, this is not failure of will. This is as biological a disease as diabetes." Severe depression is not a "bad week." Severe depression won't just go away by "looking on the bright side." Depression can hit you if you had a happy childhood, great grades and lots of friends, just like cancer or heart disease. Also realize that antidepressants don't leave the person "drugged up, numb, with the true problem unresolved." They are legitimate medicines for a legitimate, serious disease. Try telling a diabetic not to take his insulin.