Please link me to whatever infomation you have saying SSRI's are "horrible" for you. This is the kind of statement that just makes me so sad because it's obviously said out of complete ignorance or from someone who has no REAL idea of what clinical depression really is. Are they more horrible than being so unhappy you want to die....you actually do things to yourself to try to die?? Yes, they're horrible all right; so horrible that I'm still alive. How come mj didn't fix that? (and yes, i was using it at the time.)

That's why I don't offer more on this board. I've been treated for clinical depression, including suicide attempts, alcoholism and am now facing lung cancer. So anyone who answered this question who has been through more will be someone I will listen to. The rest of you are just guesses, wishes, and ignorance.