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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:01 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:59 am
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I have a friend who has been diagnosed with clinical depression. She has attempted suicide several times and has come pretty close to succeeding. She goes to therapy regularly and has been prescribed several different kinds of antidepressants. She takes the pills for a while, but she doesn't like the way they make her feel. She says she feels dull and unlike herself. She is a writer, but she can't write when she's taking her meds, so she stops taking them.
I have known other people who pop antidepressants like candy every time they feel sad. One of my college roommates would go to her therapist for drugs every time she got dumped. All she had to do was tell the woman she had suicidal thoughts, and she could get a prescription.
I'm not a doctor; I have no training in psychiatry or psychotherapy, but I am pretty observant. It seems to me that my friend who doesn't take her meds is happier with herself when she is depressed, while my roommate was taking unecessary meds because she didn't want to admit that she didn't like herself very much.
I think drugs are overprescribed. Of course, they can be helpful for some people (I know another woman who cannot take care of her children unless she is taking her antidepressant medication), but it is not necessary or natural to be happy all the time. All the commercials and media make people think that they should be happy all the time, but if that were true, then why does everyone on the planet get sad sometimes? It doesn't make sense.
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:14 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:51 pm
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:26 pm
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:53 pm
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:22 pm
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:29 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:24 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:45 pm
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