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I was 1st prescribed prozac in 1990. Took it for a few months. Quit due to cost. 4 Years later had horrible panic attacks and was put back on. Was on it for 15 years. 2008 due to family tragedy I experienced a severe depressive episode and was one prozac + many other anti-depressants before I leveled back out. Then in 2010 I found out the hard way prozac “poops out”, stops working as it should.

Spent last 13 months in a terrible depressive state, always going up on one med while coming off another. Finally a few weeks ago as a psychiatrist was telling me she wanted to take me off Effexor and start Zoloft, a bell went off in my head. I went off the Effexor as prescribed and BOOM bad things started happening. Did some research & found that link.

Sometimes I have the emotional control of a 4 yr old. Snapping and cursing at people who I have no reason to ever speak that way. I may have alienated my priest for good. Best case I start getting better in 6 weeks. Might take 6 years.

Why God? Why? I need to know why.

I need to know why

Of course. Now, you are asking of the purpose in the act, or in this case, in the inaction (God did not make these men to act in the evil way that they acted, he merely did not prevent them from acting), -- of another person. That is always difficult. Moreover, that person is also the Divine Persons of God. Understanding God is not going to be complete or easy. But God is also not irrational; He is in fact the source of our rationality. So some understanding is possible.

To begin to understand the purpose of God as He allows evil one needs to look at the Cross.

Here we have Evil allowed to happen, even sought to happen. "That which thou dost, do quickly" and "behold the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners" are words from the mouth of God.

Well, we know the purpose of allowing THAT evil: the Cross of Christ gives us our salvation. What purpose has a cross of mere man? St. Paul writes: "[I] now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church" (Col. 1:24). Our suffering unites us to Christ. So that is the purpose. Christ could have chosen to restore man to his sinless condition right then on the Cross; He could even do so as He restored countless sick people to health. He did not choose to do that: rather, He went to the Cross Himself and now He wants us to imitate Him even on the Cross. We cannot be restored to heavenly life magically; it takes a lifelong work. “Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect” – is spoken as a directive. Not “behold, I make you perfect” but “behold, I go to the Cross” and “you be (or become) perfect”.

On the psychotropic drugs, in particular, there is a reason in this object lesson. Modernity teaches us that there is a magical cure, a pill, for everything, -- and it comes from technology, by human effort alone. Instead of becoming perfect by imitating Christ, we want to be made well by eating a pill. This error: that we want the cure but not the Christ offering a cure, -- cannot be overcome by preaching. It has to be a life experience of our technological society, that peace of mind, wholeness of body cannot come without wholeness of souls. Christ does not want us to suffer; there are many pills that benefit man, and we should not refuse them just because they are "technological". But he does not want us to be shaped by pills. Hence the failure of Prozac that you experienced.

It looks that you also on the mend. Praise the Lord.

God gave man free will. Man chose evil and because of this evil was allowed into the world. Evil is here because of man allowing sin and Satan helping - If God had not allowed us our intellect, will and reason, we would be no different from his other creatures (as in creations).. God wanted us to be special.

Of course God did not abandon us afterward and sent us the Redeemer. It is still a fallen world, however, and Christ opened the gates of heaven for us. This world won’t be perfected until the second coming and the new Jerusalem.

The point is we must not blame God for man’s follies. When tragedy happens we must remember that we (mankind) ourselves are responsible because of collective disorder brought about by our own disruption of God’s perfect order. This is not on a personal level, of course!! This is collective. In otherwords, once evil was introduced, helped by Satan, it became a sort of general infestation, kind of like Pandora’s box.

Also God does hear prayer and does work miracles - He does listen.

If we hadn’t had free will we would have just been robots/ ants, creatures with instinct only.

I have experinced depression myself and will pray for you.