Whats the hardest situation you've gone through in life

For me it was usually down to perspective, or at least my sense of it. Yes I've had tough times, some real shítty times, but I always at some point looked to those who had it worse, usually much worse and if they got through it, then I could get through it. I grew up knowing rellies of mine that had gone through WW2 and hearing their stories of seeing close friends of theirs being killed or horribly maimed kinda added to that. Guys, barely men snuffed out who would have given anything to feel even my worst times and they died so I might have such human times.

I may be going through a personal hell at various times, but other hells out there I can't begin to imagine and even the simple things like the fact I have food in my belly and a place where I can lay my head and call home, is something too many millions, nay close to billions of people can't say. That's the kinda thing that does it for me.

That said I have noticed that people who are afflicted with a clinical thing like depression, one of the first things that seems to be robbed by that terrible illness is this sense of perspective, which why it's such an insidious illness.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Anti depressants are not addictive,

Well some consider that in some people such drugs may have addictive like properties. Link and Link and Link(yes I know it's the daily fail, but reporting on actual research) and Link. And that's but the briefest of web trawls. Though rather than addiction, maybe dependency is a better term, or at least it seems it can lead to that with some drugs in some people.

Anyway, you can't just use them when you feel like it - they need to be prescribed.

Indeed, yet there are already more than a few voices and questions raised about their over prescription in more than a few quarters. Yes they are very useful, amazing, even lifesaving therapies, especially for depressive patients at the more extreme end, but their efficacy for mild depression is no more than placebo in more than a few studies. So if someone can avoid their use, because he or she is able to resolve their emotional insults and trials through other means I can't see what the problem is.

It reminds me way too much of antibiotics and their overuse. Another incredible discovery and therapy that saved millions(if not billions), but was seen as safe and OK to use willy nilly for every sniffle and cough and look what has happened? I'll put good money down now that these wonderful and powerful anti D drugs will come back to haunt us down the line for not dissimilar reasons of overuse because they're "safe" and it's "easy" and most of all the patients demand them*.




*I don't blame the docs for this as some do, like with antibiotics too many people don't feel satisfied until they get their pill for every ill. I saw this recently with a mate of a mate, newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He was told by the docs that his case could be "cured" by exercise and a strict diet, and/or medication but of course he chose the pills. The easy way out. It was the easy way out that got him the type 2 in the first place. Irony or wha.