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If you are depressed you should deal with it using the best means available including using medicine. I've seen far too many people "self-medicate" using drugs and alcohol to deal with depression.  Yet, if you take them you run the risk of ending up on some list that bans you from owning firearms these days since HIPAA doesn't apply to the government apparently.  

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If you are depressed you should deal with it using the best means available including using medicine. I've seen far too many people "self-medicate" using drugs and alcohol to deal with depression.  Yet, if you take them you run the risk of ending up on some list that bans you from owning firearms these days since HIPAA doesn't apply to the government apparently.  

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Your mental happiness and well being is not going to be treated or cured from a pill.... They do not work. In order for you to get better, 1st you must recognize that you have a problem and 2nd you have to WANT to get better and 3rd you have to do what it takes to get better. The cure is within you but you have to be the one to do the work. The answer or cure IS NOT in pill form. My wife of 23 years suffered from severe depression and anxiety. She was on all sorts of antidepressants some of them highly addictive (klonpin) and some not. Tried several different kinds to try and find the proper "mix" that would work well. NONE of them worked or helped. Of the more addictive medications led to abuse as a way of seeking relief from the depression. It also led to her abusing other medications. We would go to see a therapist and she was given steps, very detailed steps on what she can do to help herself feel better, but she needed to do the work for herself to make herself feel beeter. She needed to WANT to feel better in order for there to be any progress and none of the medication helped her with that. None of it. It all finally came to an end, when she decided to take her life on the evening of Christmas Eve last year. Me and our 3 teenage kids are living proof that a persons well being is not in the form pill. I believe that the pharmacutical companies are not concerned with your well being but are more concerned about getting the doctors to prescribe their patients the medication that the pharmacuticals are pushing. To them, it's all about dollars and cents. If you are suffering from depression, find a good therapist, a good one.... and if you don't like the one you find, then find another one. Get a life partner, someone you feel comfortable talking to about ANYTHING... no secrets and talk to them. Stay away from the medication... they do not work! For those who know someone who is suffering with depression... be there for them, listen openly and do not judge. Support them the best way you can and do not give up on them. Be understanding, tolerant, forgiving and empathetic. Love them with your whole heart and help them down the path they are trying to go down that they feel they are going down alone. Be there for them. Do more, listen more, help more, understand more, love more .... be MORE. You can make a difference in someones life who feels alone in their battle....

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Lot's of derp in this thread.  I have been depressed since I was 10 years old.   I lived in misery for 33 years before a damn good doc convinced me to try anti depressants.  We tried several before settling on Zoloft.  The only thing that kept me from pulling a Kurt Cobain was my family.  I could have given two shits if I lived or died.  I for one know that I was much more unstable and a bigger risk to society and myself before I got on anti-depressants.

 Are they over prescribed? Definately.  But there are some very LARGE brushstrokes being painted with in this thread.  Your brain is an organ just like any other.  Sometimes you need a medication to make it work right.  Its not the answer for everybody but neither is "Get some exercise" or "Take Vitamin D."

Do I fear my 2A rights will be taken away? Yes, but its a risk I HAVE to live with.  

If you have never suffered from clinical depression, good for you.  I am jealous.  I wouldn't wish this shit on my worst enemy.  I wish I could "Just get over it."

And yes, I have discontinued under doctor's instructions and I'll be ok for a while, months even, but it always comes back. the Dr. said my brain chemistry is like a gas tank, sometimes it you just run out of juice and need a fillup.  After much trial and error, I'd just as soon top off every day.

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Some of you may know, I'm a bit quirky.

Advising me to consult a MD is intelligent, but due to Obamacare, your the help within my budget.

Some days I've noticed i will get severely depressed for no apparent reason. One say that springs to mind, I got to work with my best friend, had nice dinner, got two books at the library that I was looking forward to, then that same evening I had a crippling sadness come over me. I still don't know why.

I have good days, it's not all bad, just lonely.

I feel alone most of the time, my longest relationship was two months and that was with a emotional wreck at the end.

I do not fit with others. I was curious if meds would fix that. I'll try vitamin D first tho.