You've got a contradiction there. You say there is "no reason to trouble people" because you have "never faced anything in your life" as if depression is only something that is a response to stress and disappointments in life.

The type of depression we have is the kind that exists because of a chemical imbalance and often has nothing to do with events in our lives. That is what makes it an illness. To think it shouldn't be a problem would be like to have a broken leg and not want to get a cast for it because you think you don't deserve a broken leg because you weren't outside skateboarding on the stairs when it happened.

The medicine is the right thing to do but it isn't like a "one size fits all" cure. Just because you are taking meds doesn't automatically mean your biochemisty is back in balance. The fact that you still feel this way proves that it isn't. It may take some more time and some fine tuning to be fully effective. The thing to do is to try to understand that (I know it is hard when our emotions and negativity get in the way) and to keep going for treatment... see your docs, let them know what is going on, do anything you can to help yourself get past this, including staying in contact with the people here who can help and understand.

If you went to the doc for your leg and he put the cast on the wrong leg, you would do something about it, no one would expect you to sit around in pain and say "well it shouldn't hurt because I've got a cast now!" It's not like we have x-rays that can pinpoint exactly which brain chemicals are off and why, as we can with broken bones. The philosophy of treatment is the same, it only seems different because depression is so misunderstood and society is so reluctant to bring it out in the open as the true medical problem that it is.


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