will antidepressant more likely help or make things more complicated?

Emaheevul07
Mon, 10 May 2010 14:49:52 +0000

I would find it more odd if there were tons and tons of people on them LONG TERM, which to me means a year or more. On a more short term basis I am uninterested, everybody is going to experience some kind of a bout of depression in their lives and we seem to just be treating that differently than we used to. I am not of the school of thought that thinks psychiatric medications are evil when used properly and when properly monitored (and, in my opinion, they should always be accompanied by therapy of some kind). If you really have a chemical imbalance and you’re on the right dosage of the right med it’s not going to make you doped up to take them or even happy, it just makes you feel NORMAL so you can have a normal range of emotions-- which may still be on the negative side of the spectrum, but at least there is a range.

You also have to consider the sample that CC gives us to work with. I think a lot of us are the kind of people that put ourselves under immense pressure academically and are into a lot of things, and a LOT of people here have mentioned families that are dysfunctional in some way. I have dysthymia and a severe anxiety disorder- and when you consider that I am a semi-stereotypical CCer and all that entails, that is not entirely surprising!