yes....I personally was helped for a long time using Elavil and valium....but I was taught that my depression was going to last a lifetime...there was no talk about going off these drugs...they were helping me....but I couldn't get off of them....every time I just would fall apart...what I didn't know ....maybe these drugs changed my brain and it would be hard to stop them....and I found it was VERY HARD...I still cant get off the ssri...the valium is only in reserve now...

so what do we have here....we need to know what psych drugs do to the brain...bad and good...

as a psychiatrist the mainline of treatment is drugs....