BudFox, I'm not going to debate medication with you. You may not need medication at all to manage the symptoms of your depression. If not, fantastic. I agree that not everyone needs medication treatment and that far too many people are on meds with symptoms that can be managed in other ways.

Severe mental illness also wrecks many lives short and long term, and people are helped and their symptoms better managed with medications in many cases. People have to be treated individually and make those decisions for themselves. Unless you yourself are living in a person's mania or psychosis, you really can't know what may or may not work to address their symptoms.

End of my part of this discussion.