My response to a MUMM where a girl said she tried to commit suicide. I don't believe antidepressants are always the answer. Here are my words of wisdom (I just by chance found these quotations today when I was hanging out at the bookstore).....
"Depression is the surface manifestation of a deep, multilayered dynamic. It is painful beyond what those who have not experienced it can imagine, yet it covers for even more experiences that need to be unearthed and healed."
"If you use the times of relief that anti-depressants provide to look deeply into your life, they will be an aid to you. If you use them to return to the same unexamined life that created your depression, they will be a crutch that you will find increasingly undependable."
"Depression, like every painful experience, brings your attention to what needs to be changed in you, by you."
"Every personality in the Earth school has lessons to learn and gifts to give."
-Gary Zukav, author of Soul To Soul.
I share with you these quotations because I want you to realize that yes they may have diagnosed you as being Manic Depressive or Bipolar, but perhaps your depression is stemming from something that is actually pressing you. As a wise woman said to me once: Depression is when something is pressing you. You have the power to overcome it. It is not ALWAYS a permanent thing hon. Maybe it is a chemical imbalance which you were born with and you are to learn how to become a stronger person because of it. I myself was misdiagnosed as being Bipolar and was put on Depakote for it. The truth of the matter is I had a lot pressing me that I was afraid to face. You have to challenge yourself, but with support of your loved ones, to look deeper within yourself. I wish you nothing but the best.
"If you want a rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."
