[bobabob]

lol this thread is cancer.

a bunch of wiki-google-doctors that think they know more than the people who actually studied for at least a decade; get away while you can.

> These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them.

This is bullshit. Antidepressants have mild side-effects for most people who take them. Some people have bad side effects and then they try a different one with a different side-effects profile and that usually helps. The only thing I have on Zoloft are annoying night sweats. Without it I was unable to function and had chronic anxiety and panic attacks.

> Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?

You said it yourself. You tried therapy, you tried all sorts of coping mechanisms and nothing helped. So yes, find a psychiatrist and talk to him about taking drugs.

There's absolutely nothing wrong about drugs. Some people need blood pressure medication their whole life; the brain is just another part of you that responds to medication.

It is a fact that the mechanism of almost all of these drugs are not completely understood, but fully understanding the mechanism of a drug is not a requirement for it to be therapeutic. Sometimes you just find that stuff works and then you spend a whole lot of time trying to understand why it does.

[ChrisRR]

This whole page reads like an argument by anti maskers on facebook. It's terrible

The number of people shouting "Doctors don't know what they're doing" is stupid