No, of course not. My answer tried to get away from "needing or not needing drugs" because I don't think that is an answer your husband is accepting. He believes nobody needs drugs. I am saying you are an individual and you need to make individual choices. Whether you see it or not taking meds is still a choice. Being out of control and ill is still a choice.

I think it is a spectrum where most people taking meds today fall in the middle and some people fall at the ends. If you are at one of the ends meds may be the only method we have to function the way our culture wants. You mentioned side effects as an additional deterrent to going of the meds. I don't know you well enough and I didn't know when you started well enough to know if you would have taken the same path if you started today. I do think there is research not getting enough attention that would move us away from such dependence on meds. I am really hoping some of the shifts in thinking that think tankers have discussed for this century happen. I believe that will help too (purposefully leaving a lot out because it would be too long). While it may not help you don't you want to see others benefit from that? Don't you want future gens with severe mental illness not to have to take meds or at least so many? Well I believe there needs to be a paradigm shift before that can happen.

For me. I chose drugs and I am not comfortable with it. That is not the same as regretting the decision. It is more about doing what I can to find an alternative. Needing drugs is not the issue. What I "need" is a way to deal with the depression. It doesn't have to be meds (except for the damn dependence factor).

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