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Bump and information on what happens once you enter the psych medicine system for depression.

I don't get it.

You are obviously brainwashed. Anti-depressants are not the solution to your problem. They ruin you, you get addicted to them. You change and aren't yourself anymore. It's a drug, a damn bad one.
A good therapist will make you better without any drugs, i can assure you that.
In the end it all depends on you though. No pill will give you an amazing life full of happiness, make your mom a nice person and good grades. It's all about what you decide to do.
I'm also depressed but at least i accept the fact that it's myown fault for the way i feel. A pill cannot give me a job, give a good paycheck, finish school for me and give me loving parents

Like my therapist said, life is mostly suffering and nothing can change. You must learn how to live and cope with it. A pill cannot make you do that.

Oh OP and you are 17?! You don't really know how damn tough life will get when you are all by yourself. When there's no parents to feed you and give you money. I mean, they do that for you now, right?
Be thankful for that and work on yourself.

>>8691599
What if say you have an overactive amygdala and are prone to severe anxiety. Antidepressants usually work well for that.

>>8691599
Anti-depressants exist to get you up to a functional level / level you out so you can get over the problems that are causing your depression. They aren't a magic pill, but they're not a placebo either.

Since my depression is almost completely disabling, obviously medication is something that is necessary.

>>8691623
If I get out by myself the way I am, I'll be homeless or dead.

Also, I am working on myself; condescension is unnecessary.

Hi world, I'm annoying and still wish for feedback. Have a nice depression related comic while I'm at it.

>>8691829
many studies say that anti-depressants are just barely passed the point of statistical significance when it comes to how much they are than placebo.

they work because you think they do.

>>8692066
Links/sources? I've seen the opposite results; depression is greatly helped by antidepressants, but therapy and antidepressants shows the greatest results (both at once work best, only one works 'meh', although therapy>antidepressants if you had to choose one.).

>>8692078
working on it, forgot where I found the article

>>8692078
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/303/1/47.short?home

>>8691829

This anon knows what the hell they're talking about.

As a person who takes a form of anti-depressant (Ciprolax used to treat anxiety), anon makes a good point that medication is used just to get you to a functional level. That being said, I noticed a major change in my overall well-being after taking the medication. Imagine Ron Livingston's character becoming hypnotized in "Office Space". Essentially that level of comfort.

>>8692103
Huh. Makes sense, really; antidepressants have a negligable effect if your depression isn't that bad and a huge effect if your depression is severe.

...Well, actually, since we don't quite know how antidepressants work, it doesn't really make much sense, but it makes sense as far as my philosophy on antidepressants goes.

Thanks for the link; very informative!

>>8692233
it goes back to your point. anti-depressants are to get you to a point where you can get out of the house and do shit. however, that doesn't help people like me who are functioning by their definition but are still a hair width from jumping infront of a bus.

in some ways people like me are in much more danger

Whatever your depression is, I guarantee mine was more severe. I'd spend months never leaving the house, OD'd on sleeping pills to induce suicide, tried to drown myself several times (Never had the balls to use a heavy weight and cement the process)

A thing I learned, a simple elegant truth, is this. One can embrace the sorrow, live in it, cry depression whenever there's a problem, or laugh, and laugh. Seriously. Learn to simply laugh when you're sad. It might not work at first but eventually it will and you'll get into kind of a laughing fit. For me, I go on youtube and watch bad movie clips until I'm in a laughing fit.

I'd do that for several hours, listen to upbeat music, and exercise. I'd change my diet because I noticed when I'm sad I eat more to fulfill the unhappiness, when I'm happy I'm never hungry. I exercise, I socialize, I make many friends and try to make a ton of female friends because when one wants a relationship I'm the first one there (Try some free dating sites, shit is unbelievably easy and the girls are cute) With all that, I try to change my social status, pursue artistic endeavors and change my self image to be one of someone who is not necessarily a winner, but rather overtly happy. I learned that sadness is easy, casual, and useless, and happiness is magnetic, and the more you can find happiness, genuine happiness, not the kind that comes from falsely hoping and wishing, but the kind that comes from just being chill and cool and nice to people, is so much more valuable.