Are you addicted to any medication?

[Ancap]

I take effexor too (225) and I think I am also addicted

Only Effexor or together with a benzo?

[Ancap]

Seriously? Why Espran made you gain a lot of weight?

It made me eat a lot.

[Hadouken]

Only Effexor or together with a benzo?

I have Tavor/Ativan for emergency situations only (severe panic attacks)

I take effexor in the morning and perazine/taxilan at night

[Ancap]

Is it just a mere coincidence that people from the third world and people who live in the worst and most deplorable conditions never suffer from so called depression when they actually do have every single reason to be depressed? People say it is a chemical unbalance in the brain but I rather say that our modern society has become too spoiled.

I am Brazilian.

[indo-uralopean]

This thread makes me want to try some opioids. Coffee has become boring.

[Seya]

nose drops

[Ylla]

Depression is a choice, not a chemical imbalance in the brain. Anyone suffering from so called "depression" has the ability to be cured if they choose to be responsible. It is just a standard nowadays in our modern society to look for negative behaviours or groups of behaviours and then assign them a label as a "disease".
Too many people think they are depressed when in fact they are not experiencing anything worse than all the others that get up in the morning and get on with life; but keep convincing yourselves that you are indeed really depressed and finding more excuses to keep on taking pills, that's what the pharmacists want you to believe anyway...

Thats why I left my job as a clinical pharmacist. It became about "hitting targets" rather than patient care.

[Insuperable]

I dont like people who have some stress and say they are "depressed" but depression IS a serious illness and as I told you I know very well that I am ill since I was a child and so are many more people . what you are describing are some individuals who are not really depressed (or mildly depressed only) and dont have real depression . you can not know it like me since I am in touch with these things so I dont blame you but you are being disrespectful to us people who really suffer

Depression is obviously an illness, but quite a distinct type of illness which is still researched (which came first chicken or egg). Stress can turn genes on/off and induce depression making it inheritable. I believe it can be turned off with life style changes and the power of will in the first place, but that is just me.

[Dragoon]

My grandmother drinks two to three glasses of wine everyday for more than 60 years, she is 92 years old nowadays and more mentally sane and energetic than youngsters hooked on pills and anti-depressives who look and behave like walking dead. Depression is a choice not a sickness, it is up to people to get over it.

Old people used to be outside more, move more, no consoles, videogames, computers, smartphones, and certain foods were healthier, less people lived in cities, less lights, and so on.
So above listed things might play a significant role on mental health. Some studies also claim religious people are happier on average.
Society has pushed "progress" without paying enough attention to the downsides.

As for your claim about depression, disagreed. There is a difference between "im depressed" vs clinical depression.

[Dick]

nose drops

What for. You barely have a nose. It's so small.