maleficent

I can go both ways on medication for depression... a few years back, I bit the bullet and went into talk to a shrink about some things that were bugging me -- about 10 minutes into it I realized that shrinkage was totally not for me -but what irked me was as I was walking out the doctor handed me a prescription for an anti-depressant. (I wasn't depressed.. moody yes, but not depressed)

A colleague at one of my clients about two years ago got dumped by "the one" or at lest who she thought was "the one" and was a little down about it-- she went to her doctor and got an antidepressant because she was she broke up with here boyfriend- -what's wrong with being sad for a while - your life has changed? Deal with it-- drugs seem to be a way of not dealing with the current situation.

I think that some of these drugs are way too much of a quick fix in the fast food society that we live in - -we want everything yesterday... I would believe that there are better solutions to everything, they just need to be found...

Then again, if they made a pill for self confidence and self esteem, I'd be first on my block to take it... because nothing else has worked. I have no issues with Brooke or anyone else taking antidepressants if they feel it's the right thing to do for their given situation., I would not be comfortable iwth it on a long term basis.

another colleague at the same client was on Paxil (or some paxil like drug) for a good while - i'd venture to say years... it started out as post partum depression, but her youngest was now starting kindergarden...that seems a little long. She didnt take them every day, and you could see really distinct personality changes when she didn't take them and she claimed that she felt completely different too - but never could say if it was good different or bad different. That long a time on a drug has got to have adverse effects on the body and the mind.

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