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As someone who suffers from clinical depression, I think SOME medication is a good thing. But there are limits. Medication, in my mind, is meant to be used as a crutch--something that will help you get out of the deep, dark hole of depression. As I also suffer from anxiety, my medication helps keep all of my symptoms in check. Yes, I have gone without for periods of time, but for the sake of myself it's easier for me to just stay on the medication (meaning no chance of backsliding, which is the worst thing ever, I think). I do practice alternative therapies for my anxiety (yoga, meditation, biofeedback) and have tried counseling and other forms of therapy for my depression--but the fact is that nothing is as effective as medication. I would have liked to use my medication as a temporary crutch and to not have to take it every day, but the fact is that I do. The last thing I want in the world is to be medicated, but as it's the only way I'm a fully functional person, it's something I have to do.
I wonder if Tom Cruise realizes that for so many of us, medication is the last resort. Somehow I don't see vitamin therapy as helpful, though keeping the body healthy is helpful. However, as someone with clinical depression will tell you, trying to get yourself to do anything, anything at all, is like climbing Mount Everest.
It's obvious to me Cruise has never climbed Everest.
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