Thank you PP --so much hype about drugs and they are super risky. Drug companies are worked hard to market them to everyone. They claim they are used to treat a "chemical imbalance" that was never even proven to exist. But I'm going to correct you because even moderate exercise has proven to be more effective than anti-depressants.

Here's a video about the dangers of antidepressants from Mark Hyman (Bill Clinton's doctor).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg3KgRXDB3k

I have tried several, and nothing works for me except vitamins and super healthy diet.

Long-term effects of these drugs have not been tested. It's horrible they are given to children. Their brains are going to be troubled when they are adults.

Sorry, OP. How's your DH's diet? Has he seen a nutritionist? How about exercise? Serious exercise can kill depression like nothing else. Combined with diet, exercise can make it go away. Forget about the drugs. They enrich the pharmaceutical companies, but don't help most of the people who take them.

Anonymous wrote:DH is depressed and has been for about a year. He's just now coming around to considering talking to someone and won't consider meds. I've had my bouts with depression as well so I get it. It's a disease. But it's so horrible to watch someone you love sink deeper and deeper and not be able to help or fix. I'm being supportive and understanding but it's just a craptastic illness.

Sometimes its a disease sometimes its a symptom of something else entirely. Its important to do a full medical check up. I was going through depression and turns out my Vit D levels were non existent once I got them tested. it took months of supplements but made a huge difference. Could be his thyroid who knows.

Anonymous wrote:^^Sounds like your medication is causing mania. You should feel normal, like you do when you don't have a depressed mood, not glorious.

I imagine that feeling "normal" after a bleak depression is glorious, PP. Just being able to appreciate a new day. I dont think that poster literally meant she was seeing colors or on a,manic-like high.