Posted by Dan Perkins on December 25, 2004, at 10:34:09
In reply to to Dan, posted by linkadge on December 25, 2004, at 10:07:18
Yes on all counts. There is a history of depression on my father's side of the family. He has been depressed all of his life and he had an older brother who was depressed and who committed suicide. My older brother and I have both suffered from depression and my father was aware that we were depressed long before we knew what depression was.
I can't really blame him for trying to talk us into taking ADs. It is only after 10 years of going from one AD to the next that I have come to realize that medication is only a partial solution to my depression. When I have kids, if they are depressed I would never try to convince them to take drugs. But if my father believed that drugs were the answer and that, as he put it, they were like putting on glasses for the first time and seeing the world in a much more realisitc and happier way, then I certainly can't blame him.
Anyway, my father's pushing us really had no effect on my brother or I and, if anything, they turned us off to the idea of taking ADs. While my father first brought up the idea of going on an AD I was probably about 10 years old, but it was not until I learned about depression on my own in my Sophmore year of high school (5 years later) that I started on Prozac. And it was not until about 6 years ago that my brother starting taking an AD, which is probably at least 15 years after my father brought up the topic with him.
> That is strange. Did your father have reason to believe that you were depressed ? Did he suffer depression himself and benefit from AD medications ??
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