Depression is a mental illness that affects the whole body, mind, and your thoughts. Depression may show itself as anxiety, mood bursts, irritation and frustration, and even chronic and non curing stress. As the mind is the controlling authority for your body, habits, actions and feelings, and as the depression heavily interferes with the functioning of the mind, you and those surrounding you are affected by your depressive behavior. Usually, a depression is a medical condition that cannot be simply taken as a symptom of personal weakness or as a condition that can be easily tackled by the Person afflicted with depression. To cure depression, a systematic medical treatment is necessary and without which, the symptoms and effects of the depression may stay on the patient for a long time causing his mental condition to worsen. Sometimes, the continued depression may cause irreparable damage to the mental health of the patient. Hence, utmost importance must be given to cure depression at the earlier stages of affliction.