Question

Can Botox Cure Depression or causes depression?

Answer 1

It cures depression no more than food does. And it does if fleetingly, until something else depresses you.

We look into the mirror and don't like what we see so we get depressed, and then look for something to relieve that depression like botox injections or eating some comfort foods.
And those fixes are not permanent, only temporary as we age and return to our natural state of getting old, and then we get depressed again.

As long as that spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León has looked for that fabled 'Fountain of Youth' since 1513, many humans have been depressed about their bodies becoming older and not as attractive as they once were. And they search for their own kind of fountain of youth in other things, but really nothing works for to long as we all find out.

So **** it up and live your life to it's fullest, because life is relatively short when you think about our universe being billions of years old..............we humans are just a second of that time................ so get on with it already!!!!

Answer 2

from what little I know of psychology I am positive it can on at least two levels, feeling good about your appearance does move your emotions in a positive way and the ability to communicate that positive emotion publicly with your facial mussels confirms that emotion back to ourselves, a positive feed back loop...not only that but it is infectious to other people
so the revers must also be true with negative emotions and if you are preventing a frown it will create a stop gap in the "negative" feed back loop

Answer 3

Actually not really sure if botox can get rid of depression or not. Maca root is really amazing stuff for good, steady, calming energy and making you feel just fine, centered, "with it". Gets rid of moodiness, replacing it with "I feel just fine."

Answer 4

I don't know..........since most people that use it are unhappy with the natural aging process, one could ****** many of them are depressed before they use botox. Now if the question was does it cause diminished mental capacity and craziness, I think we know it does............. Nancy Pelosi has proven that over and over with her stupid comments..........

Answer 5

No, it wont cure depression! Im half and half. Why? Because I studied facial expressions and human emotions and learned of cases where people can really feel what they mimic, instead of the other way around, sometimes. Say you're sad, study shows that if you keep on smiling long enough, your mind will connect it to being happy, hence changing your emotion. Its sort of like self manipulation, the mind is rather interesting. Now while I believe emotions can be changed based off of facial expressions, I don't think botox is really the key. I mean, botox doesnt make you feel any emotion. it just freezes the face, period. Which is why i hate it. As an artist, I find wrinkles of facial expressions unique, and taking it away to look good(not really, you start looking like a freak) ruins it. I guess I take it back, it's ridiculous, period. Botox doesnt fool the mind into thinkin it's happy, it just doesnt allow you to feel or show any emotion. If you're sad, you wont show it, if youre happy, you wont show it. And chances are, you'll be even more depressed because smiling makes you happy, and if you cant smile, its easier to be sad/depressed, since most depressed people dont even show signs of crying or wrinkling(clinical depression usually numbs the face). I think the guy just thought he fixed the depressed people just cause they didnt look sad anymore! XD Good job trying to help people, but not the solution. Next thing you know, everyone is having botox and becoming unfeeling robots. lol.

Answer 6

Not sure, but I understand it can help with tension headaches. I dont thinking it could cure it but i think it would make a person feel better about themselves and that's a good step. Often when you look better you can feel better. If the poisson also numbs the brain......maybe..

Answer 7

You are dealing with the deadliest toxin per weight in the world, if it's misused or an accident happens applying it, it will cure all of you problems in minutes.

Answer 8

The question should be, what was the source of depression for those 9 patients that showed remission? If the source of depression is physically oriented, like being ugly, then I can see that happening. But if it is something deeper than that, then Botox is just a ridiculous idea.

Answer 9

I don't know the specifics, but I do know that Botox is very effective in treating pain under certain conditions.

Answer 10

The author of this article herself admitted that it suppressed her happier emotions, that you couldn't truly cure yourself of depression unless you found happiness again:

"But then a friend who, last year ... had a stillbirth, told me she was pregnant again. I knew this was good news. I smiled. I ******* her that I was elated, even though the truth is I was only sort of thrilled. I couldn't feel the same depth of joy I would have a few weeks prior. When she raised her eyebrows and twisted them in the relieved sadness that comes with good news that recalls bad, I could only watch, a step removed, using words I hoped were emphatic enough to convey how pleased I was for her.

"This detachment persisted for the four months that the Botox remained active. Recognizing news as happy isn't the same as feeling joy. Sure, I appreciated not becoming emotional at a contentious parent-teacher conference. ... But I also didn't feel the expected level of worry when my ******** cried out in pain. ... Even movies that would have hooked me emotionally seemed to be dubbed over in a language I couldn't be bothered to understand. More disturbing: My friends (and husband! and ********!) stopped reacting as they usually did to me, making our interactions feel leaden and boring. Ironically, the flatness mirrored that of my worst depressions. My ********, whom I’d once been so worried I was traumatizing with my sad expression, were confused by my lack of one.

"...I felt diminished by feeling less deeply, and that, to me, was the most compelling result. ... I did experience an absence of depression. But Botox also took away other feelings, the ones we need to make us whole: joy, jealousy, frustration, triumph. Feeling leap-in-the-air excited—that was gone, too.

"My Botox did wear off... By the time my friend’s baby was born and she posted pictures to Facebook, I was able to smile-cry for a good, long time—primarily with true joy for my friend, but also with ... relief that I was still here, alive and feeling. I walked to the bathroom, looking for tissues, and saw in the mirror the same face I've always made, the one Finzi saw on his mother all those years ago—lined, expressive. I watched this face in the mirror, my most human one, and I promised myself it would be OK."

Answer 11

Insensitive or not, I think a great way to 'cure' depression is for us to stop being such pussies about.. everything.

Hear me out, I absolutely believe that depression is a real thing that real people have and are forced to deal with. But I also believe that a lot of 'depression' can be chalked up to people being..pussies.

I can say I have a certain level of depression, but I think in a lot of ways, being 19, working 40+ hours a week, finishing high school, living on my own, trying **** to balance relationships etc. is pretty ****. And yea, I can get pretty down a lot of the time. But that's because my life is **** right now. And I think a lot of people diagnosed with 'depression' are in my kind of boat. Things are **** for them. And instead of 'manning up' and facing life like an *****, its a whole of a lot easier to have an illness to blame your lack of motivations and whatnot on. In short; being a *****. Yes everyone is different and yes man people are affected by different things differently, but I'm willing to say a whooooole lot of people are just thoroughly enjoying having a scapegoat for themselves in depression.

I think if I were diagnosed with depression by a healthcare professional of any kind it would be pretty insulting to some one really dealing with some serious mental issues or chemical inbalances or what have you.

Seriously, there's a big difference between FEELING depressed and BEING depressed. I think a good way to cut back on the statistic of '1 in 5 people in north america have mental illness' (or whatever it is) is to just be accountable, and grow up

Answer 12

Let me take a leap of faith here and guess that those in remission had depression coming at least in part from dissatisfaction with their appearance.

Facial expressions are always outward expressions of inward things. Injecting botox isn't going to cure the inward unless the inward comes from the outward point of injection. All it's going to do is keep the face from expressing the depression.

Answer 13

It does not cure it but is more like a bandaid. When a person gets the treatment they look better to themselves in the mirror and therefore their mood lightens and they feel like they are ok. When they once again feel bad about their appearance it will be back to the sobbing and tears.

Answer 14

Perhaps, since it has killed quite a few when they received bad batches of the crap made from lockjaw diseased I believe...mexico killed a few when vaccine not prepared correctly...Be natural~

Answer 15

The only potential cure for depression (if they existed, which they don't) would be stupid pills. Depression has a strong correlation with intelligence and it's no wonder why. Smart people see the world and life for the crappy things they really are. Stupid, delusional people are the ones who are "happy."

Depression isn't an illness. If anything is an illness, it's Pollyanna syndrome.

Answer 16

Depression is a mental illness. Symptoms can be subdued with medication, but it can't be cured with it.

Answer 17

I can see how this is possible, it's already been known for a while that even witnessing different facial expressions triggers emotions in our mind, seeing a person who's face resembles anxiety and fear will release stress hormones in our brain, seeing person's face that appears happy will release serotonin and positive hormones. Mirror neurons allow us to empathize and reflect emotions from each other.

So this may work in the following ways;

1) When the depressed person looks at him/herself in the mirror, they won't get that automatic trigger - if they normally look depressed.
2) Other people around that person will probably stop reflecting as much depression towards that person too, if they appear more neutral.
3) When you mimic certain facial muscles, you might be triggering your brain to feel that emotion more intensely too, so when you stop doing that - it might lessen how you feel the emotion.

Answer 18

The picture below are not the result of Botox. They are botched surgeries. I don't have any idea if Botox would cure depression, unless the cause was situational due to aging -- in that case it might make one feel happier temporarily. (Mind you; I have nothing to base this on).

Answer 19

It'll be a temporary fix, it'll solve the problem on the surface but self-esteem issues run deep...

& no amount of surgery or bettering of your outward appearance can change that. It may help if adding a bit of lip gloss makes you feel a little prettier, more confident but at the *** of the day, you have to learn to accept your outer and inner flaws and work to be smarter, stronger, happier on your own (with support of friends, family, a hobby as well)
I do not think using botox in this way, to force your eyebrows or lips to display joy and peace will make you actually feel that. Because looks can be VERY deceiving..
These people who believe this would work, are superficial for whatever reason, and thinking like that is dangerous & just dumb. Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.