anti-depressants Options

[Retrogressive]

what's your opinion on this generation using a lot of anti depressants? more than any other generation? could it be similiar to taking riddilin? sometmes it seems like our answers are always medicine nowdays... do you think anti-depressants are wrong or/and unhealthy? i read an article about how they can actually hurt people even more.

[nothing_plus_thi...]

yes. i have brains.

but i am also depressed/some other disorder i don't buy, and am on anti-depressants. but, i waited until it nearly destroyed my life to resort to it. which was a good 3 years, or until i turned 17 (although i had been periodically attempting suicide, hurting myself, and blacking out during mood swings since i was 9 or 10). i HAD to make sure it wasn't just hormones, high school, or a phase.

and, i attended counseling prior to agreeing to trying the medications. it was extremely rough for me to conclude that i wasn't just a normal teenage girl trying to find a reason and a diagnosis for my behaviour. but, it was also one of the best choices i've made in my entire life.

so yes, i have brains. but i'm also one of the few who are truly inflicted with mental illness.

[juliar]

mental illness has become one of the most disturbing and disgusting trends to hit the population of teenagers. there are hundreds of them running around screaming depression and cutting themselves and throwing around textbook reasons and definitions for things. everyone is so into learning about disorders and transforming themselves to fit the diagnosis. because they see it as "tragic" and "dramatic".

After I left my old school, this girl who, in the most basic of terms that I'll use, who was a whore started cutting herself. Alot of people were concerned, but I was confused. See, she was perfectly normal and happy and nothing happened to her. She would basically make her cuts VISIBLE to everyone and on AIM she'd put on away messages like "cutting...". It just irritated me because she just shamed everyone who is truly depressed.
But anyway, my own two cents about anti depressants:

People who are prescribed with them must be watched. It doesn't work well for a person to just get the pills and take them. They need to be closely observed by someone, a guardian, a doctor. I think that they need to go through some sort of treatment program as well.