# DEPRESSION AND REALITY (don't read, very depressing)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 3, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depression-and-reality-dont-read-very-depressing/555932 "2010-10-03T17:44:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depression-and-reality-dont-read-very-depressing/555932/19 "2010-10-04T04:14:00Z")

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> [@Markxxx](#):
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> If you’re depressed you need some sort of help. Meds can help. This is not a quick answer as it may take weeks or months before you get the right kind and the right dose. But at least you’re trying to get things right.

Been there, done that, didn’t help.

Been in & out of therapy since I was 9 (I’m 49), the last 15 years it was continuous with more than a dozen different meds. No change, no help, so in April, against doctors orders I quit taking the meds and seeing the doctors. Some people are just broken and nothing can be done for them. I’m one of those people and I want out.

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