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Depressed and Coping: Treating Depression When Medication Fails

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This article give hope to those who can't take drugs. My daughter has had horrible side effects from Zoloft and Effexor. While I have no side effects being on these drugs, it just proves that some people can't tolerate medicines for depression.
Only now there is hope of approaching it another way. Thank you

kaye of OK 7:38PM February 05, 2012

Check this http://ehowsolutions.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-get-rid-of-depression.html to know how to get rid of depression

ehow Solutions 4:39AM December 26, 2011

This has certainly given me a guide on what to start doing. I appreciate it. I am a combat veteran from the Viet Nam era who suffers from PTSD. I have been in treatment for about 10 years and have not seen my Psychiatrist in about six months. It is almost the anniversary of one of the tramatic events which started my eventual depression and I am aware of that.

Luther Brock of CA 8:42AM November 11, 2011

Like most writing on this wall of no responses, I have been depressed since childhood. And like most writing here, I've been unable to find true treatment for it. Most doctors just want to collect their fees and make sure you have insurance to cover their ridiculous costs. One psychiatrist wanted me to see her every month so she could "monitor medication" which was nothing and then also pay to see the therapist...because the psychiatrist didn't want to talk, she just wanted a fee for writing a prescription.
I have little faith in these doctors; I don't think they were trained very well. I honestly feel they don't know what they are doing and don't care; they just want to be paid.
Best advice--do what you must to survive.

Marian of LA 8:10PM August 28, 2011

I've been dealing with depression for most of my life I'm 42 now, it started one night after my grand mom had died and my mother had went on vacation and left me and my brother home alone for the first time I couldn't have been more then 14 or 15 years old I was sitting with my brother playing a video game and it was like a ton Of life dropped on my head, I had no idea what had happened to me but the next thing I know I was laying in my bed shaking and thinking I was all alone in this world and was never the same after that, I delt with those feeling for the next couple of years not knowing what was going on with me and not really Caring either I was young till my girlfriend left me for another guy and this was someone I had been with most of my life so I moved back home and feel into a deep depression still not knowing what depression even was till I talked to my father one day on the phone he had left us when we were younger that's why we had moved into my grand moms anyway he told me that I had depression and panic attacks and I should see a doctor so I did and he gave me Paxil and it worked because I wanted it to so bad I was so tired of not being able to leave the house some days and after three years apart me and my girlfriend even got back together had two kids got married and started living the life we had always wanted till October 11 2007 when she died unexpectedly well of course im depressed and dealing with alot of stuff, fast forward three years and I'm now 42 i finally go to the doctors to get something to feel beter again my magic pill so he gives me Paxil again I take for four days and almost kill my self so I stop taking that fast and start to heal slowly from that trama then I come across this post and in reading it noticed that my doctor never even asked me any questions about my depression he just said it worked before so here you go these doctors need to stop doing this to people he almost compleatly ruin an already hurting family.
Signed
Hanging in there

Marc kelleher of NJ 1:55PM August 07, 2011

I have questions rather than comments.. My boyfriend has depression for a very long time and the pills he is taking now arn't working he is very worried about going to the doctor again because the last time he just upped the dosage of the medication. He is feeling depressed all the time and is getting forgetful. We want to know how to cure it!
Can anyone help? Does anyone know of someone we can talk to that will give us straight answers?
I'm in canada

andie 8:49PM July 17, 2011

wow! I cant even see clear from all the tears I cry. Yeah nice to know Im not alone, but it sure seems like it most of the time. I have never had treatment, but I smoke Medical Marijuana, it DOES really work, however, im painfully finding out, that JESUS, is the ONLY REAL Cure. Love You! Remember in life we must go through trials and pain, but as long as I have breath in my lungs, I will be thankful for this life I do have because there is always someone, somewhere who reminds you that yours isnt so bad after all

MS of CA 12:00AM November 05, 2010

I have been there where the is no rainbow, only the shadow of despair and decline.
The only friend you have there is constant fear, consistent failure and downgrading.
You try to reach out - knowbody cares-, so you huddle alone in the corner and watch the world go around - you are just gone beyond repair.
perhaps there is hope - try to find her!!!
good luck mother prudence

crw of NJ 5:17PM October 14, 2010

I have been depressed since childhood and have tried every medication under the sun. I have become very discouraged and self-medicate with alcohol. I know this only makes matters worse. I stop for a while only to go back to it. I am in such a rut. I have been in bed for weeks now and things are getting worse. I am hurting everyone around me. Its nice to know that I am not alone though. This is my first step at reaching out.

Kim of RI 3:31PM September 11, 2010