Quote Originally Posted by Infamous
Well, thats what differentiates being normal and being depressed, you are basically saying that a lot of people on these drugs were feeling low for a few hours and thought they were depressed. Do you think a doctor would prescribe such drugs to someone who'd had a bad day? MOST depressed people feel so shit they can't even help themselves and end up leaving it months before they seek treatment. To be honest you cant really say much on the subject until you've gone through it personally.
Really Infamous? You know me on a personal level? You know that I have or haven't been depressed before? Thats amazing that you can see what I've been through my whole life by reading 2 paragraphs of text on what "I" think about depressants and my experience with them.

I have been depressed, I went through a few months of my life wanting to do nothing but stay in bed cause it seemed like my life was over and everything I once loved was just a blur. I did NOT take any depressants, and stepped back, looked at the bigger picture and decided that life is really not worth the time to be sad.

Quote Originally Posted by Weedhound
Infamous.....don't even bother......the guy has no clue.....seriously. He speaks from complete ignorance. It's those types that certainly are NOT worth my energy.
I'm pretty sure calling it out like that is actually hypocritical cause its actually ignorance on your part to say that.

for example: Lets just make up a story to compare: Lets stay I say "the holocaust never happened" and give a few "reasons" that I might think that.

and the next person that replays says. "Infamous.....don't even bother......the guy has no clue.....seriously. He speaks from complete ignorance. It's those types that certainly are NOT worth my energy."

Is it ignorant to say that without giving any types of facts or reason to rebuttal my argument.

Quote Originally Posted by Infamous
I see your point :thumbsup:

Its just that i've heard all these people who have no idea what its like commenting on how weak the sufferers are. If only they knew how difficult it is to get out of depression - it can be a vicious cycle that some people never manage to escape, I know this from first hand experience. But to be honest I don't care if i have no backbone as long as i've still got my front bone :stoned:
How can I have no idea how hard it is to get out of depression when I said that 2 of my CLOSEST family are/were depressed. I don't know about you, but living with someone with depression CAN actually make yourself depressed, cause whatever YOU as a person do, nothing can change or help them unless its themselves.

Its quite funny, that from what I read, it sounded like I didn't give any reason why I think ALOT of people are on anti depressants and they shouldn't be.

I said that the 2 people that I know are on or were on them, not only did it NOT help them, in one case, IT MADE the depression worse than what it was BEFORE the meds.

EXAMPLE: My bro, he has OCD, hes depressed all the time, he was on one med that was doing wonders for him, he decided it was time to get off it. He got off, he was doing fine(from his words) he was working, school, friends, he was living life like what it should be lived for. He went to see his doc about loss of appitite, and poor sleep, but other than that his mental status was great. THE DOC gave him a type of anti depressant that would help him sleep and eat, 1 week later he tryed to kill himself. out of no where, he fine at night, and the next morning, I walk into his room where I step into a pool of his blood and then proceed to fight him for 20 mins until the cops came to detain him cause for those 20 mins, he was beating the fuck outta me trying to get to anything that would be sharp enough to stab through his temple.

4 days later he was off the depressants and was a totally different person, for the better side.