What I mean by physical is that manic depression/ bi polar is not necessarily caused by environmental experiences. I'm not an expert on depression, but I understood that it could be inherited. I was diagnosed with just clinical depression, with what is now called OCD. Which is why I have been able to recover to a great extent away from the situation. What causes organical depression? Why won't your brain make the correct chemicals? Is it something you were born with? When I have bad IBS symptoms, I get low emotionally, not to the sererity of depression. I was told it was because I have a low store of serotonin, which is manufactured in the gut. If that is the case, doesn't it make it a physical symptom? However, IBS, like asthma is a somatic illness, which may originate from emotional causes and certainly can be triggered by emotional causes as well as physical causes. Yep, I'm confused!
Whatever.....depression and anxiety are horrible conditions to deal with. I would never want to go back to my childhood, but the experience has made me stronger and more empathetic.