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Originally Posted by anthony  Depression medication is not a good medication to ever be upon, instead you should take medications to control anxiety and seek other means to control depression, such as daily exercise and healthy eating is the best known and factually proven method to combat depression without making you worse. You just have to force yourself into that lifestyle change and you make time daily to get out and go for a good walk, do something practicable, etc, for at least an hour a day. |
I seldom post anything which disagrees with anyone, because most of the time differences of opinion are just that. But on this issue I feel the need to add my own experience to the mix.
I have suffered at least six major depressive episodes across over thirty years. For most of that time I was undiagnosed and untreated. Some of the time I did all the right things, eating and exercising, and these things perhaps made it possible for me to remain functional enough to get to my therapist's office. But I was not relieved of constant suicidal ideation, intolerable alienation and a physical sense of darkness and heaviness inside my very brain. Social interactions remained torturous. Work was impossible.
I am now on an antidepressant medication, and have been for 18 months. It took me a while to find the one that worked for me and which has no noticeable side effects for me. I may have to be on it for the rest of my life, and I am ok with that, becuase I understand that with the support of this chemical, I will probably actually remain alive. I bear long scars up both arms from my last encounter with a major depressive episode.
Antidepressants are not 'an exact science' But they can, and do save lives. Some lives anyhow, mine being one.