Sorry if it sounded like I was suggesting to just drop all medications. Obviously, there are safe ways to gradually come off medication. I have just seen (and experienced) that medication is often times the actual problem. Doctors, particularly psychiatrists and psychologists, don't seem to recognize what normal behavior is any more. We are all prone to states of depression when we experience major life changes. I do not believe that those warrant a medication. I think the process of experiencing grief, anger, etc. are key to a healthy emotional state. The medication seems to numb or even block out what would otherwise be normal, healthy emotions.