Anti-depressants

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Just a thought, and I haven't read anything else in this thread except part of the OP. To him I say this:

I do believe certain people need meds. But it shoud always be your last resort. Why?

1. The doc will always diagnose you with depression. Why? Because it's an emotion, everyone feels that way, and he's not entirely wrong... and that means he gets money.

2. It will stop working after a while. You go back and see the doc, he gives you something stronger, or something to augment the meds... more money.

3. You will have 2 possibilities after a while. Get off the meds, or stay on them. You can't just quit cold turkey, so doc will be more than happy to give you something to wean you off... more money.

Most of the kids I know on "happy meds" are more fucked up after the treatment. Meds fuck your mind up after a while.
 
After a suicide attempt I was placed on both Wellbutrin and Lexapro. I took both for two years, along with therapy, with no results. Eventually I got tired of going back again and again, so I just pretended to get better until I was taken off the meds. I think the therapist was just a sham, though, because I eventually figured out the root cause of my depression on my own. It's still here.

My point? Pills failed. Every attempt to stave off the depression, try new and different things and "change my stimulus," as kre8or says, has also failed. Either I'm a strange case or you're all wrong.
 
Have they done any other tests? Like physical ones? Have they examined your frontal lobe?

I know that my treatment has been working for me. Of course, I'm lucky to be alive anyways so anything's better than nothing at this point.

Sounds to me like you have another possible issue that's not being properly diagnosed and treated.
 
there is no way that you have changed all the stimulus in your life. Its virtually impossible to do so if you continue to live in modern society, buy food from the market and drink tap water.
 
Surely it doesn't work for all, the cure rate is about 80% better than without treatment and it has several confounding variables. I did a seminar about a recent study that found that there where basically two types of severe depression, categorised by the areas of brain they affected (and also by the causes). The other was more receiving for drugs, the other for therapy (it was a difference in amygdala and OFT-lobes).

Did you try changing your therapist? Because there sure as some bad ones out there too. The therapist training used to be a jungle, but now it's organised, legitimized and research-based (at least in here, and I've heard it's gotten a tad better in the States too). CBT is excellent as opposed to longer analytic therapies (or at least they have beeen less studied). The most effecting thing in therapy is the therapeutic alliance, it means more for the outcome than the actual school of therapy. If you and your therapist interact and work together well the cahnces of the theray succeeding are far greater.

The bureaucracy often sticks it's ugly fingers into play here, as they expect that the depressed client has enough energy to go through therapists and zig-zag between treatments by his own.

I still sincerely doubt that your depression was not caused by mercury.
 
Amen to that.

Y'all are so thoughtful. For one, I quit trying and I'm learning to manage and live with it with a strange, cathartic sort of self-therapy (not masturbation). Two, this thread isn't about me. Carry on.
 
In a way it is, it's about depression, which we both have. The idea that they can't help you breaks my fucking heart, if the doctors told me that I don't know what I would do.
 
I said its impossible to change all your stimulus if you still buy from the market, drink tap water and live in a modernized society.
 
I didnt have to go that far. Although i would really enjoy living on a mountain by myself and catching what i eat.

I changed who i hung out with. I changed what i was doing in life and my attitude about it all. I simply decided to not let things get to me. I realized that nobody is going to love me as much as i will (yes its from oprah). Thats all it took for me personally.

For others it takes moving out to the country and shooting and preparing their own food. For some, they can just learn to control their brain functions and become happy that way. Everyone is different, but i dont think anyone needs pills.
 
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