Go to therapist for depression. Tell therapist your life sucks and that you’re depressed. Therapist says that’s sad. Therapist suggests taking a pill that tricks your brain into thinking it’s happier. Therapist charges you ridiculous fees for this.
Or you can get off your phone, go outside and solve the problems that are making your life shitty. For the problems you can’t do anything about, just dance. It’s proven to be more effective than SSRIS’s. Dance and dance and dance.
Ive done both. Getting out, making social connections, and building friendships helped me break out of depression, but I still needed to get back on an SSRI later in life because it keeps me at a baseline in regards to generalized anxiety. I thought I had overcome my anxious mind until I stopped drinking, and that's when I became aware of my self-medicating.
I think SSRIs can be helpful, but they are prescribed far too easily.
Agree that they are certainly overprescribed. I’m not sure what it’s like where you live but where I am almost everyone who wanders into a doctor’s office with low mood will be offered an SSRI.
Good luck with your mental health, stick to it my mate and don’t forget to dance.
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u/Compleat_Fool Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25
Go to therapist for depression. Tell therapist your life sucks and that you’re depressed. Therapist says that’s sad. Therapist suggests taking a pill that tricks your brain into thinking it’s happier. Therapist charges you ridiculous fees for this.
Or you can get off your phone, go outside and solve the problems that are making your life shitty. For the problems you can’t do anything about, just dance. It’s proven to be more effective than SSRIS’s. Dance and dance and dance.