Hello H3rmit: Yes, I agree with your assessment regarding depression. I've never really had any psych testing of any consequence & none of the professionals I've worked with have ever offered anything in the way of a diagnosis. They just keep prescribing SNRI's & other things, from time-to-time none of which I end up staying on for very long for a variety of reasons. So I've been on Cymbalta only, for about 2 years now. It's not great. But it's the best med I've tried; & I've given up thinking that there's anything better out there. I don't have a therapist.

Nowadays I think everything gets chalked up to depression. It's easy, there are SSRI's & SNRI's one can take & there's no need for expensive long-term therapy. It's like we're all rolling along on an assembly line. One guy stamps our foreheads with the word: "depression". At the next station, they give us our prescription for whatever SSRI or SNRI they happen to pull out of the prescription box. Then the last guy tosses us out in the street & yells: "Come back in 3 months!" And there we sit on the sidewalk, with our prescriptions in our sweaty little hands & with dazed looks on our faces! And they wonder why we just keep getting worse! Oh well, at one time I guess we'd have been chained to the walls in a crazy house. So I suppose we shouldn't complain too loudly.