I'm a student - I need some help...

Northstarmom
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:47:11 +0000

“Drugs are no way to treat a mental illness induced by trauma and stress.”

? Please cite some research that says this.

If you don’t want to use therapy or medication to address the suffering you’re experiencing, that’s your choice. I do wonder, though, why you’re continuing to post because you seem to be rejecting all help that people are offering. If your way of dealing with your grief, stress and depression is to move, then go ahead and do that while realizing as someone else here pointed out, you’ll take you wherever you go.

You seem to think that moving and having fun will cure your problems. It’s impossible to have fun if one is seriously depressed. After you move, you’ll still be dealing with grief issues as your dad still will be dead. You just won’t be surrounded by constant reminders. However, you’ll have to adjust to making new friends and the other hassles that come with being in a new environment. Your depression isn’t going to magically vanish because you’ve moved. However, it’s possible that you may need to experience this before realizing that geographical cures don’t work if the problem is inside oneself.