POMC and depressive disorder: Stress, either psychological or due to other reasons (trauma, surgery, injection, anaesthesia, and hypoglycaemia), and depression stimulate the releasing hormone of the adrenal cortex of hypothalamic CRH in the brain that leads to the production of ACTH by the pituitary gland, which acts on the adrenal glands by stimulating the production of hormones, which include cortisol, by the adrenal cortex [40].