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Taking a tangent here, a good many people out there suffer from situational depression. I had never come up against it myself until about seven years ago after a back injury that ended my job as a health care worker. After three months of basically being a shut-in I suppose depression can set in with the best of us.
A short time after that I was prescribed an anti-depressant called Zoloft. I did a 4 month cycle after which things were..... better. But for the first three weeks of taking it I suffered with incredible nausea and heartburn the likes of which rendered me nearly incapacitated every morning.
After my system adjusted though, the mood elevating effect was very noticeable and effective. You're not "high" for those of you wondering, but just, well, happier, more positive. If you were sitting around brooding before, now you're more motivated and of a better mindset to go out and take on the world again. The effects are hard to explain, but for me it worked, and I have only felt the need to do one further cycle of it since. That was about four years ago.
Situational depression, although usually curable, can be no less devastating to people and shouldn't be taken lightly. Otherwise basically normal people can be driven to drastic measures, even suicide over it.
Lastly, one other thing to consider is that insurance companies tend to throw up a red flag when they see any treatment for depression in one's history. When I set up some insured funds for my future several years ago I had to jump through some extra hoops because of it, and in some chronic cases I can see where service would even be denied all together.
Anyway, carry on...
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