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I'm going to a funeral tomorrow night for a gal who fought depression for years and then blew her brains out over the weekend when she was fired from her job.

7 posted on 09/24/2003 1:58:24 PM PDT by dirtboy (CongressmanBillyBob/John Armor for Congress - you can't separate them, so send 'em both to D.C.)

First off, I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. Depression is awful. Anything that can help depression I'm for. Some of these drugs are incredible.

10 posted on 09/24/2003 2:10:11 PM PDT by Hildy (SUCKER: Short-sighted Uncompromising Conservative Kool-Aid-drinking Elitist Republican.)

I'm going to a funeral tomorrow night for a gal who fought depression for years and then blew her brains out over the weekend when she was fired from her job.

Sadly, although the medical community does not want the public to know about this (for a good reason, I must admit) 20-30% of people with major clinical depression cannot be successfully treated. No amount of antidepressants and/or therapy ever helps them, or at least doesn't help enough to matter too much. Though I suppose being able to "improve" such a patient from being constantly suicidal to merely being constantly miserable is better than nothing ... and I even have my questions about that.

It's enough to make me wonder if there even IS a God.

16 posted on 09/24/2003 2:31:02 PM PDT by Timesink

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