My ambivalence comes from seeing people who literally walked into the doctors office and said "I want prozac|zoloft|etc", and the doc said "OK" and wrote the script. No therapy, no examination.
Well, really, that's not a problem of the medication. That's a problem of the doctor not doing his job.
Hell, one friend of mine was on SSRI's in college. Not that she was depressed, she just didn't want to be the ONLY girl in the Sorority not on an antidepressant.
Ugh. That's sad in several distinct ways.
But I do know that people - such as you - disagree strongly based on their personal experience. And I can't gainsay you - either I'm not affected by the depression, or I deal with it in a different way. That's the problem with problems in the brain. Thus my ambivalence.
The basic factor at work here, I think, is that not all brains are created equal, and not everyone reacts identically to any given medication. It seems they work very well for house_pundit. On the other hand, for me, they're like throwing a monkey wrench into a finely-tuned machine.
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Ugh. That's sad in several distinct ways.
The basic factor at work here, I think, is that not all brains are created equal, and not everyone reacts identically to any given medication. It seems they work very well for