I got negative points for saying that anti-depressants aren't necessary, depression is natural, even animals get depressed, people can deal with their own problems if they are strong enough to admit them and then deal with them. Am I wrong? Explain...
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Agreed, I'd rather feel something than feel numb.
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You are wrong if you made a sweeping generalization like that, yes. Strength has nothing to do with a chemical imbalance in the brain. If you have truly suffered the horror of depression, you wouldn't dream of giving that answer.
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I don't agree with you at all. Depression isn't something that people can - or should be expected to - just "get over". Many people do suffer from a mild form of depression at some stage of their lives, that may be due to complications within their marriage, problems at work, etc. Often, this can be allieviated by exercise and some positive thinking. However, there are a great number of people who suffer from not only chronic depression, but other mental illnesses that are caused by a plethora of things, including a chemical imbalance in their brain that can only be corrected by medication. Depression, and suffering from depression, has absolutely nothing to do with weakness, and to suggest so is both offensive and ignorant. People who suffer from depression are, usually, incredibly strong people, simply due to the fact that they, somehow, struggle through their day to day lives. I do agree that medication on its own will usually not cure severe depression. A combination of medication, therapy, lifestyle changes and changes in ways of thinking are almost always needed.
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The key here is finding the right medication. I have tried several and found Prozac worked best for me. If you are hurting bad enough and so mentally exhausted from whatever trauma maybe going on in your life any side effects are minimal in comparison to the good anti- depressants can do. At one point that was the only way I could cope within my family. Everyone goes through pain in life and I say however you can make it through the day is what you need to do. Not sure why you received negative points.... your question was upfront just understand that these drugs are life saving for so many of us who are just trying to make it through each day.
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There is a big difference between ordinary depression, when there is something to get depressed about, and clinical depression, when you can be depressed for no reason at all. When you are suffering from clinical depression, everything can be absolutely all right, and yet you feel terrible. The sun can be shining, the birds singing, no real problems in the world, and yet you are looking at them as if they are the other size of darkened, armour glass window. Ordinary depression can be solved by solving, or accepting, the real problems. Clinicial depression cannot be solved like that because there are no problems to be solved. It is no use saying "cheer up" when you have no cheer to up.
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My mother is a nurse and she says there's something like the cells aren't getting what they need; the anti-depressants give them this chemical they're missing. I guess this would explain for some of the depression (the kind where you're depressed for no reason). However, there's always the kind where you're depressed for a reason, like your girlfriend left you.
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Yeah, you are wrong. Very wrong. Everyone gets upset and sad at sometime in their life, yes, but not everyone gets depressed. There's a difference. One is natural, the other is an imbalance of chemicals in the brain that causes sadness constantly - there is NOTHING you can do to fight such a thing, other then taking pills. I don't agree at all with you. I've met many, many depressed people - this isn't a problem of 'oh, they're just weak', no. Many times people who suffer from depression are very, very strong people... but there is nothing one can do, strength plays no part in fighting depresison.
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Yeah, you are wrong. Very wrong. Everyone gets upset and sad at sometime in their life, yes, but not everyone gets depressed. There's a difference. One is natural, the other is an imbalance of chemicals in the brain that causes sadness constantly - there is NOTHING you can do to fight such a thing, other then taking pills. I don't agree at all with you. I've met many, many depressed people - this isn't a problem of 'oh, they're just weak', no. Many times people who suffer from depression are very, very strong people... but there is nothing one can do, strength plays no part in fighting depresison.
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you are very very wrong and i dont agree with you at all. if you have ever experienced true depression then you would know that anti depressants are sometimes nesesary and it as nothing to do with being strong at all. depression is not about admitting things or just feeling sad its a lot more than that. it can be a chemical imbalance in the brain.
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You don't know the difference between depression and sadness. Lucky you. It's like saying to someone who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour "Don't worry, we all get headaches from time to time. It's perfectly natural. You can will it to magically go away if you're strong and deal with your problems."
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Didn't you learn anything from the mistakes of Tom Cruise?
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I can only say ditto to a lot of what everyone else has said. Sometimes a chemical imbalance needs to be straightened out with meds. My husband felt the same way you do, until a couple years after we'd been together and my depression just kept getting worse. I finally found a decent doctor and we had to experiment with different meds, and I had such a turn around. You are very lucky you don't have to go through it, but you need to understand that some things are so difficult that no matter how strong you might be, you're not strong enough to get through it without help. Depression can battle you down very far!
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Well someone who's suffering from serious depression most often benefits from both drugs -and- therapy. Think of the drugs as a little lifesaver that help the drowning person float while the therapy is the actual swimming lessons to help them deal with the core issues that may be causing it. Of course, taking any psychotropic drugs like anti-depressants should always be monitored since many times the results of each drug on each individual may be vastly different (we don't know how exactly many of them work) and not everyone may benefit from the same drug. At the same time the drugs are necessary in the sense that not only are people dealing with life problems, but possible biological dispositions that make them susceptible to suffer serious mental illness as a result of those problems. n.b. I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist, just an undergrad student who has studied and come across this for many years.
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