Accutane is synthetic vitamin A, it shrinks the pores on your skin...and is not just dangerous to you for depression..
The reason they check your blood every month is bcause they are monitoring your liver... accutane can cause liver problems because taking vitamin A at large doses is extremely toxic and people have died. I was on accutane and thankfully I still have a functioning liver, but I have had friends with worse news...
while I was taking Accutane I didnt know anything about it.. all I knew was I was like everybody else and I worried about how i looked even tho my acne wasnt that bad.. little did I know that after that period of my life I would "outgrow" acne.. anyway, looking back on it for me I wouldnt redo it...