Rainbow--I really fought the med thing for awhile too. I was like, "I'm not EVEN depressed!" After talking to my friends, they all said "What do you have to lose?" That was an argument I couldn't win, because I could only gain. We know enough information I think about anti-depressants where its not like you are foraying into the dark.

The good thing is, your T can recommend a pdoc. Mine did, and I love him! Also, we started off VERY slow. I started off at 50mg of Zoloft, and stayed like that for a year or two. Then things started getting worse, so we've been upping them. I'm now at 150mg. THEN everything went to the s**tter at work, and my boss begged me to see him. So now I've added Wellbutrin! I feel like a pill factory sometimes.

But you know what, I have no other explanation as to why I'm not crying all the time, or that I can focus at work...etc.

That being said, I was in denial about needing them for 2 years. I didn't believe I was depressed until maybe 5 months ago. But I kept saying to myself, "You have nothing to lose."

I don't know how your body reacts to medicine, but I had virtually no side effects with either Zoloft or Wellbutrin. I would get intensely nauseous for about 5 minutes if I took the zoloft on an empty stomach--but my pdoc told me I would, I am just stubborn!