Sex is a temporary fix. It may make you feel less depressed now, but in my opinion, every person you sleep with takes a part of your dignity and self-respect away. The more you use sex as a temporary fix the more immune you will become to the effects it will have on your emotional health. Pretty soon, it will become so much a part of you that it will lose all its meaning. It will just be a physical act.

The reason I can say all this is because I've been there. I don't know how old you are, but I'm relatively young and know too well the damaging effects of numbing your depression with sex. It use to be a numbers game for me. It got to the point for me that I didn't even care who the guys were, as long as I got what I "needed" I was fine with it. I know you said you are protecting yourself and that's good, it's one of those things, if you're gonna have sex, at least your being responsible. I just don't want you to feel that you need to use sex as a drug to mask your depression. I want you to want what's best for yourself.

And why doesn't your mom want you back on the meds? This seems odd to me.

I wish you the best,
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