Should You Take Antidepressants for Money Worries?

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Pharmeseutical drugs offer little help and mostly really bad side affects. Why would you trust an arftificial (manmade) imperfect substance when mother nature has already provided it for you with NO side affects.
Marijuana is the best way to relax as no one has ever been killed from it, it is far safer than any pharmacy drug, is legal in 14 states, does not cause cancer or give the user insomnia (like most anti-depressants) and works about 100x better. You can get medical marijuana in so many forms its ridiculous. Brownies, cookies, mints, drinks, vaporized form, butter, and much more. There is absolutely no reason to smoke it.
Before dismissing the idea, please visit this website (http://www.marijuanamedicine.com/)
Marijuana has thousands of years of study and use. It was only banned in 1937 to protect the paper industry and for largely racist reasons. Getting a perscription is very easy, at least in california and colorodo, and recieves nothing but praise from the patients.
If not then by all means, go support drug companies that want nothing more than your money. Go put you health and your quality of life on the line because you believe in stereotypes of marijuana users. Go choose a lethal drug over a healthy drug (marijuana). Go choose to take a drug millions say makes them feel like zombies (pharmeseutical anti-depressants). Go look at any major news poll over medical marijuana and you will see that 70-80% of americans believe people should have the freedom to use the more effective and safer alternative.

Daniel Hess of CA 6:19PM March 23, 2010

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JaOogiyZpb of ID 4:10PM March 10, 2010

As the article says, benzos can be habit-forming (addictive)!!
Don't add to the problem of being out of work by getting an addiction.
Do try a support group or therapy group with others who are trying to cut back financially and trying to develop new career paths. If you can't find a such a group, form one: you can do so easily now by www.meetup.com, and helping others in this way will help you, too.
Remember these are trying times and the job market is NOT about you! Plenty of good people were out of work in the first Great Depression and they survived by turning to connections; by remembering what that these struggles are temporary; by moving to a new location and taking jobs that were far from their dream jobs but which gave them food and shelter. You can, too!
Don't forget about your faith community. Let this be a time that you can draw on your faith and that you can let others know how to help. Don't expect them (or your family) to be "mind-readers."
If you need psychotherapy turn to a psychologist and if you need a referral call your state psychological association for a referral, including to one who works "probono" (for free or on a sliding fee scale).
Do something constructive each day, and something free each day to make you happy. You will be more likely to find a job if you keep yourself happy, and your job interviews when they do come will show you to be a positive person who is so very resilient. These are the qualities that any company needs in employees.
Many of us have lived through such times and can tell you that the sun will shine again and that so please, borrow some hope from us!

Deborah Cole, Psy.D. of MD 9:55AM August 23, 2009