Yes, I do take anti-depressants. Do I like them? No, I fucking hate them, but without them, I can be a harm to myself and the public. I'd be dead or in jail without them, so I tolerate it and have accepted it as something I need.

To me, there are a few kinds of a depression. Chemical imbalance depression, and trauma depression. Trauma depression I think is can be related to abusive childhoods, parents/friends/relatives dying, being a teenager and etc...those, to me, are a temporary solution. Do what you have to do to get through it, but that isn't something they will need forever.

Now, what I have is a chemical imbalance, along with others as well. I have a lack of seretonin flow in my brain. It is completly out of hands and there isn't a switch or any amount of talking, or cannabis, that will help me. I have to take these pills and I have accepted that, and if people don't understand, there is a saying, "the inexperienced are always the most ignorant" and that's a saying for a reason.

I take Effexor, 75mg, the lowest dose. At first, it made me short tempered, and the doc. warned me that it will feel like a drank a bottle of rye (not impaired, but rage-ahol) without anything else to balance it out. Me, being stubborn, said no, and he gave it to me anyways...a few weeks later I had to go on an extremely low dose of Zyprexa to balance me out.

Since then I have felt great, so there.