I am not comfortable taking medications to alter my moods. I prefer to figure out how to deal with whatever life has thrown my way which included my daughter's emotional problems and eventual addiction to heroin.
I spent a heck of a lot of time, money and energy trying to tame the heroin beast within my daughter. I took risks that I never would have otherwise imagined. The more I tried to fix/help/support her, the more broken I became. Depression does not do justice to my emotional state at the time.
In hindsight, it was not my daughter and/or her addiction that were dragging me into an abyss. Rather, it was my own ego and reactions that were killing me. I learned how to save myself from stickies /posts in this forum.