Thank you for all your responses! I appreciate them. I promised myself that I would take the first pill tonight but I chickened out once again. You see, my parents are against the idea of me taking medication because they say that they would rather me deal with it naturally. I would too, to be honest. The only difficulty in my situation is that I have 8 weeks (is 8 weeks a long time??) left of school and I know that it's school that's making me depressed. The depression is making me unable to focus on my school work, and if I get bad grades this semester I won't be able to continue my education later in life like I had originally planned. So my ideal plan was to take the medication while in school, and when summer rolls around, see if I would still like to take them.