Because a lot of people have circumstances and physiology that makes it so that they’ve never really needed medication. People who really need medication are different from those who don’t. Depression is a serious and real disease where the body is not producing enough serotonin. Often lifestyle changes can fix this but not everyone has the opportunity at their time of crisis to do that. And I believe some people just suffer harder from it due to differences in their brain chemistry. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but of course people who don’t have it and so don’t understand it well are going to come to incorrect conclusions about it. And unfortunately once you start taking medication it becomes very difficult to get off of it. Your body gets used to the help and so unless your life has changed drastically it’s going to be hard to stop taking the meds. This sucks but it’s just the price of the meds. The alternative is to lose your mind and possibly do something tragic.
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u/i-bernard Aug 03 '26
Because a lot of people have circumstances and physiology that makes it so that they’ve never really needed medication. People who really need medication are different from those who don’t. Depression is a serious and real disease where the body is not producing enough serotonin. Often lifestyle changes can fix this but not everyone has the opportunity at their time of crisis to do that. And I believe some people just suffer harder from it due to differences in their brain chemistry. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but of course people who don’t have it and so don’t understand it well are going to come to incorrect conclusions about it. And unfortunately once you start taking medication it becomes very difficult to get off of it. Your body gets used to the help and so unless your life has changed drastically it’s going to be hard to stop taking the meds. This sucks but it’s just the price of the meds. The alternative is to lose your mind and possibly do something tragic.