I suffered from depression at one time. A letter from my friend in England came and I was reading it to my Mom when I started to cry. Later I watched a movie that was sad and started to cry again. I didn’t know why I was crying, I’ve been through many sad situations before and could always control my emotions. I made an appointment with my doc and was told I was suffering from depression. She put me on Cymbalta and it eventually helped. I was already on numerous anticonvulsants and pain medication 100 times stronger than Morphine that had destroyed my sex life and the Cymbalta only made it worse. I was determined to get off as many meds as I could.
One day a delivery man came and we talked awhile and he said “You have a choice you can be happy or sad.” It made since to me and I knew I had to make changes in my life. I thought about seeking help but did it myself. Some people need the help of counseling, psychologists or psychiatrists along with medication but I believe right or wrong that it takes a lot more than medication alone to get over depression. I was lucky that as hard as it was it wasn’t easy to overcome my depression but easier than most I believe.
I hope this makes since, I had to reconstruct it several times.