Anti-depressants

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nicklebie

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No one has said "pills are the only way". No one has said anything REMOTELY close to that.

As for what causes the depression? In my dad's case, he lost his job my freshman year of high school, and it took him a really long time to find a new one. When his severance pay was up, he had to take a really shitty job that he hated to help pay bills, and he was stuck in that job for a few months. I don't know what happened that pushed my sister towards depression, and it's none of my business. I would be honored if she someday chose to reveal what ultimately caused it, but I'm not going to ask her. She's chosen to keep her therapy sessions intensely private, while my dad was very open from the start.

Depression takes many months to fully develop, and typically years of medication and therapy to correct it. The meds work on bringing hormones back into balance, while therapy works at finding out WHY they went out of balance in the first place and keeping it from happening again.
 
There are five different ways of looking at the mind, that much I remember from my psych classes. I don't remember them all, but I'm 99% sure you could find some kind of therapist who's school of thought mirrors what you feel is the cause.

I know one is biological, another cognitive, but I've slept since those classes so I don't remember the others. Oh, behavioral is another one.
 
Actually there's an integrated approach to the mind that's being used. So you'd really have a hard time finding a shrink who doesn't believe in psychological causes of depression or vice versa.
 
I take Lexapro. Best.Drug.Ever. It's like having a little light switch in your brain and when you confront something that's stressful you can just "switch" off the anxiety. A bit. It's obviously not perfect but it's a useful tool when one is learning serious coping skills. Pair that with therapy and you don't have to hide the sleeping pills from my line of sight.

Kr8 sounds like a Scientologist. Next thing you know, he's gonna claim that post-partum depression doesn't exist and then jump on couches.
 
lol you obviously don't know what you're talking about there otter... I never said that depression or any other psychological event does not exist, i simply said "i think they're bullshit" read the thread.

And whats with everyone talking about Scientology all of a sudden, as if any of you know what its about. (sure i know this statement will be misconstrued to say that i'm defending it)

It must be nice just turning off parts of your brain in stead of learning to deal with them. Sheep... baaaah baaaaaah... sheep.

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the problem with most folks is that they want someone or something to do all the hard parts of life for them. The sooner you all realize that life is 1. hard and 2. not going to be any better than what you make it; you'll learn "coping skills" and "how to be happy"... its really a lot more simple than anyone you know, i know or anyone period, makes it.
 
So you don't think there's even one person in the whole world that's so chemically depressed that they need medication to fix it?
 
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