Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

Understanding the Root Causes of Depression Beyond Medication

10 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube video "Understanding the Root Causes of Depression Beyond Medication," host Richard R. Ramos interviews a participant (Speaker B) about her personal history with depression. Speaker B reflects on how her early feelings of sadness were likely influenced by a mix of external and internal factors rather than solely by medication. She mentions possible environmental triggers such as fear of her neighborhood, dietary influences, and household toxins. She also shares a unique perspective on her innate empathic and psychic medium abilities, describing how absorbing others' emotions as a child may have contributed to her depressive symptoms. While she cannot recall the exact age she began psychiatric treatment, she suggests it may have started around age 15, and she emphasizes that each individual's depression story is distinct, underscoring the need to look beyond pharmaceuticals to understand root causes.

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because not everybody's story is going to be the same as mine. It, it could be very different where it's coming from. It could just be that you're constantly triggered from the neighborhood that you're living in, right? Like, maybe you're scared, scared from where you're living. You're just fearful. And when we have so much fear within us, that also is not healthy. So it just— everybody's story is different. But I do believe there's a cause. And look at it, it could be your food, it could be the toxins in the house. I mean, there's just a lot of different things.
So, but for you, um, you as a child, you just noticed that you were— I don't know what age it was, but you just noticed there was something different about you, like you said, and you were just feeling sad. Would you say sad? Yeah. And so was it a psychiatrist that recommended the, the drugs to you at that age? At some age, whatever it was.
I know I'm trying to remember. I may not have started anything till like 15 or so. I I don't remember how old I was, and I don't remember.
You weren't 7 or 8 or 9 or—
No, I don't think so. I'd have to ask my parents. I don't remember. I don't think so. I don't think I took any drugs at that time. But now I can say with understanding, I have these wild intuitive psychic medium type gifts in where I can just really, I don't know, bounce around, I guess, between this world and the other side of the veil. Now I know that that also probably played into it because I am such a huge, huge empath that I could sit with any person and you could not say a word and I'm going to tell you how you're feeling because I'm going to feel it within my own body. And I think as a child, I had no clue that I was doing that or that's what was happening. So I just took on so much of the world within my body. And that is very confusing as a child.
Right.