Reply #37: um

[kotsu]

yes...you do.

Being prescribed one hot on the market anti-depressant after another year after year after year develops a dependency upon the drug to manage one's mood. Most long term patients no longer have a clue what normal emotions feel like.

I'm not saying that anti-depressants are bad, per se. What I think, and what most studies support, is that tinkering with the chemistry of our brains should never be a casual endeavor. As it stands now..there is very little work on teaching how to deal with depression and most treatment is merely tossing scripts at a sufferer.