More and more people were found to have depression. I think one of the reason is nowadays we have too much stress. In order to cope with the stress the body produce the stress hormone and that can tip over the hormone balance. We need couple of relaxing hormones to make us feel relaxed and good about life. The depressed people cannot enjoy the daily life even they have wonderful life, they have wonderful work and the children, they cannot appreciate and enjoy. That's because those hormones gava, progesterone, seratonin especially seratonin can their level out of balance. So with the same wonderful life they cannot feel happy so acupuncture by helping to restore those chemical balance it help mild depression. With severe depression, acupuncture help them reduce the medication level so that avoid side effect with large doses.