I've read horror stories about the anti-depressents. Believe me many docs probably feel i should be on one. No thanks. That is just too risky. You read these stories of people killing there families or the school shootings where the kids where on prozac or what ever. No thanks.
Its hard really hard I dont feel we as people where designed to live in a society like we have created for ourselves. So many people have nice big smiles on there faces and so many others sit around getting depressed wondering why there the miserable ones. I found lots of them with smiles are on some kind of drug to keep them that way. Sad but true and in todays world sadly they probably need it to cope.
Its a difficult road without those things but it can be done there are ways to make it tolerable and easier.