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2stop · 08-01-2003, 07:43 AM

Just wondering if anyone lives with depression using more cognitive retraining and behavioral changes wothout meds. My husband has said maybe I don't have clinical depression, maybe the drugs for 20 years is what depressed me..I don't know..I have come off the Remeron, it only agitated me more, so I'm glad I don't take that. I have taken almost every anti-depressant in the book and none really worked that well. In a way I am scared of the suicidal depression if I don't take the meds but I also have read many stories where people have been able to lead productive lives with no medication. What are ya alls thoughts on this?

08-01-2003, 07:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
2stop ~Author of My Life~ Join Date: May 2003 Location: Doing what I thought I couldn't.... Posts: 4,794	Anyone live well with depression w/out meds? Just wondering if anyone lives with depression using more cognitive retraining and behavioral changes wothout meds. My husband has said maybe I don't have clinical depression, maybe the drugs for 20 years is what depressed me..I don't know..I have come off the Remeron, it only agitated me more, so I'm glad I don't take that. I have taken almost every anti-depressant in the book and none really worked that well. In a way I am scared of the suicidal depression if I don't take the meds but I also have read many stories where people have been able to lead productive lives with no medication. What are ya alls thoughts on this? __________________ Many Hugs and Hope too, Tammie "Think of all the beauty still left around you and BE HAPPY." ~Anne Frank~ "Things do not change, WE change." ~Henry David Thoreau~