Once my mother and my aunt worked for a place where their boss told my aunt to "just get over it" after her baby died. Things are not as simple as that.
to remedy depression: get som excercise, get some talk-therapy, and if after a couple of weeks the doctor suggests medication, take it.
After a month of talk therapy, only then did my therapist suggest medication. And man, let me tell you, it helped. It's not a common result, but I noticed a positive effect the very first day. After a year, year and a half on medication I was weened off of it. I grew tired of the medication making me tired. SSRI's apparently make you a little sleepy, and they help people with chronic pain sleep better. I didn't have chronic pain, my therapist just old me I'd been operating in a depressive state for six or seven years, and only after a tramutic event did I sorta stop functioning. Oh man, I can't say this enough....They helped. Only after being on them a year did I notice that I could do without the side effects. I started with Celexa and ended up with Lexaopro, which felt like it had less side-effects--being sleepy, no energy, etc. A friend of mine made a joke about it: if you don't take medication you're too depressed to get out of bed, but if take medication you're too sleepy to wake up in the morning. Gladly, I accepted that effect because those little pills and the talk therapy changed my life.
After being on them for a while, I found out that my best friend in college was also on the same medication. He got on them relatitivly the same time as I, and that spurred manl long discussions about how the medication was working, etc. He was like my own personal support group. That was something to be thankful for, I guess, now that I think about it. Apparently, he has a family history of depression or substance abuse which masked as a way to deal with depression. Weird. Look to your family, and it's something people don't like to talk about, but somebody could have it in your family. Two after I got on medication I found out what medication my grandmother was taking: Lexapro. I told my dad what that stuff is and told him all the ins and outs of it. Seeing as how the SSRI helps with OCD tendencies, my grandmother finally seemed calm and happy instead of always having to run around and worry about something. Apparently I carry their traits because I ended up on the stuff too, after a couple of years of substance abuse. If you really could use this type of medication, it will help and improve your life ten fold.
