I was pressured into taking meds for depression for a few weeks, then decided to go off them. I'm so glad I didn't sink any more money into them as a study just came out that says SSRI's don't work any better than a sugar pill except in the most severe cases.

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045

The other stuff I was doing in my life was more effective than the SSRI's