[oatmeal1]

As someone with treatment resistant depression, it is odd people are against medication. Medication is proven safe and effective for treating depression. Therapy and medication should be used immediately in conjunction because 1. therapy is most effective when paired with medication, and 2. depression is a vicious cycle. The longer someone spends depressed, the more likely they will spiral into deeper depression, isolation, unemployment, etc.

No one should delay any part of depression treatment.

[fastasucan]

Same for me. Its so odd having an illness, and taking medicine against that illness, and mostly reading an "universal truth" that the medication that helps you is bad someway. As you say, therapy but also getting a better sleep hygiene, better nutrition and exercise is so much easier with medicine.

[anyfoo]

Note what I actually wrote:

> And while I don’t doubt that there are serious physiological conditions that warrant, even necessitate, medicating, my impression is that the first response to “depression” in general shouldn’t be medication.

It’s very well possible that you, and the person you answered to, are solidly part of the “needs medication” fraction. I do not believe that medication against depression is bad in general.

[afpx]

I know a surprising number of people who take ibuprofen daily but will avoid stretching and exercising.

[KellyCriterion]

Ive read from people having written more than 600-700 applications and are still without _any_ job - and those may have a mortgage.

How shall "proven and safe medication" help here?