I think unhappiness is an emotion and depression is a state of mind, the opposite is happiness or euphoria. I don’t understand why people take medications when they are going through hardships in their life, as if they have a disease. Life contains the full spectrum of emotions, including happiness, anger, sadness, etc. Do people have to always be happy, saying “I’m good” when people ask “How are you?”, smiling with shining white teeth? Why do you always have to be a happy, positive go-lucky type of person who pops pills whenever they are feeling less than fabulous? Isn’t depression natural?

I have been very depressed before, so I’m not marginalizing people who have serious depression. It was a dark period in my life and I got over it. My doctor tried to give me antidepressants but I point blank questioned him and asked why I should take them. He tried to explain the “chemical imbalance” crap to me and I asked him to do a test to show that I have a chemical imbalance in my brain. He didn’t have anything to say to that. I refused to take the medication. I wasn’t going to take MORE chemicals to fix a “chemical imbalance” that doctors thought I had, without doing any tests.

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