This may be a 6day old topic, so if I get yelled at for reviving it or something, sorry... I just felt I wanted to add on to this...

I took many different anti depressants to treat my "severe" depression. Some, like Prozac made my condition worse! Well I began smoking about 6 months after the start of my depression, not for medicinal, but just as recreational use.

Over the time of smoking, I began to notice the med (or so I thought) I was trying was actually working! So I stopped smoking to see if there was a full benefit from that, and it stopped working. So curious, I stopped taking the med for 3 days and continued my smoking. To my surprise, I was fine. I've been fine ever since, I've had not ONE anxiety attack or suicidal thought since I started smoking almost 5 years ago.
Willard_420 Reviewed by Willard_420 on . If you are depressed, read this I've had to deal with depression for much of my life, and now am in the process of getting off meds, so I have been searching for other methods to keep me from sliding down. I found the best book- It is called The Zen Path through Depression by Philip Martin. It is a slim book, only 143 pages, and is broken down into practical actions one can take to reduce depression. It's very easy to read and follow, so I would recommend it to anyone (you don't even have to be Buddhist to benefit from the Rating: 5