Dear Christina,I have a BS in Psych and worked many years as a social worker. In TX you need a masters in Psych to be a psychologist. I know about depression and I, too, am on Effexor XR. I guess it's as good as anything. Group therapy can leave you speachless and in a knot if you have any social anxiety or don't like sharing with a group. Can you go back to individual T? School was highly anxiety-provoking to me. I got a job immediately after school, and it felt like a vacation, comparatively speaking. So, things will look up. What you say sounds a little like slipping, but really more like just a bad period, that will return to baseline, given medication compliance. Abnormal Psych is fascinating, don't you think. I have a book called Psychosis and Spirituality which visits the gating theory of hallucinations - the breakdown of perceptual filtering. Although I never got to work as a psychologist, I worked 25 years in State psych hospitals, where you get to see it all, essentially. Things should get better with time. If not, I am now disabled with time on my hands and plenty of it to listen. I love PC ~ billieJ