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Old Dec 23, 2019, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by mgb46 View Post
I agree with you in your approach to meds. I would only advise meds if it were extreme situational or chemical depression and for short term use. Meds tend to muddy the waters and complicate. Then you you spend years trying to get off once you start the meds. Intense therapy w minimal, if any meds would be my recommendation. You have been without meds for so long. Don’t polydrug. Will the med bring about a serious improvement in your question of life? Then possibly.
I have to say I respectfully disagree with this. I would be dead and in the ground long, long ago were it not for multiple meds. Granted, I have bipolar depression and not MD, but still, the concept is very similar. The idea that serious depression is just about wrestling with life's questions is, I believe, a rather simplistic approach to what serious, life-threatening depression is. Just my take and, of course, everyone's mileage may vary.
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