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Originally Posted by CDSmith
DJ, on some topics your complete ignorance astounds me.
But you're right, tons of people probably do take anti-depressants frivolously and needlessly, and yes, they are weak and often self-indulgents who pop them like candy while sitting outside the family cabana at the local country club.
But for some people, treatment means being able to function again. Some depressions are harder to deal with than others. I've been depressed before and not taken treatment, who hasn't? All I'm saying is that at one point of my life it was more severe than I realized. I didn't ask for it, the doctor who was my acting pain specialist diagnosed me with it, I just followed the gameplan is all. What I noticed is that it did help a lot in my case.
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Let's just say that I have a whole list of things that are fucked up about me, and not all of them are treatable with just medication. Hooray for therapy.
But the mood swings, nightmares, and paranoia are very controlled now. I have maybe one or two swings a month now, occasional nightmares, and am not really all that paranoid now.
The drugs help. My cocktail is what keeps me on a more steady level. I have no doubt whatsoever that it saved my life to have to do a stint in the hospital under lockdown while drugs were tried to ensure that they actually did something for me instead of just turning me loose without observation. Many people who are set loose like that really never find the correct doseage nor the correct drug or drugs and thus you end up with kids like the one Dark Jedi mentioned.
I'm not saying that this is a cure all for everyone, but it has helped millions of people, some of whom believed that nothing would help.
Yes, the drugs are a crutch. But I'd rather have the crutch and be able to walk than not have it and just lie there.