Great! So is that the title of the thread? Prevent Depression? Because I have been losing weight to prevent prediabetes. Well, I think I was edging towards that (prediabetes) and my health care provider had an online program for me to follow, which included diet. But then I read that cetalopram often caused patients to gain a ton of weight. I called my doctor and told her I could not afford to gain a "ton of weight" and that it would increase my depression as well as anxiety about diabetes, which runs in my family. In this case the side effect of "weight gain" makes the drug kind of dangerous for those edging towards prediabetes, right? The doctor said not everyone experiences weight gain but if you go online to community forums the number of people reporting weight gain on cetalopram is staggering. Besides feeling suicidal on cetalopram, I went off it because I did not want to put on 50 pounds in 3 months, as some people report happened to them.