I had a similar conversation with my therapist today. She says that depression seems to have always been with me, only in differing severities. I know when I am depressed, it comes and goes and has since I was younger. I tried Paxil once, but quit soon after because of the side effects. I am a little confused. I wonder if I should speak with a psychiatrist or go with my original assumptions that anti-depressants are not for me.