The first red flag is that they're trying to put something in somebody's body that they have to "ween off".
Have you ever met somebody who has been prescribed anti-depressants who were only prescribed them temporarily? Everybody I've ever known spent years on them and when they wanted to stop taking them were ALWAYS told by their "doctor" that it "wouldn't be a good idea to stop, even if you feel better now".
I'm 36, I've known dozens of people in my life prescribed that shit, they were handing it out like candy to people in my high school back in the 90's. Now days a ton of people I knew on them had to get off them on their own without doctors help, they spent years dependent on pills to even function. The amount of times I've seen posts on my social media like "This is the first time in years my brain has felt clear" from old friends who quit their anti-depressants and SSRIs and had to go through withdrawals on their own is crazy.
Those same doctors you trust to prescribe you that shit also get money from pharmaceutical companies every time they prescribe somebody that poison. Ever go into a doctors office and see how the pens and the notepads have pill brand logos all over it? You shouldn't be going to talk to a therapist and they have Prozac logos all over their office. It's fucking gross.
If you need proof of Doctors not giving a shit about you and shoving pills down your throat for profit read up on all of the stories right now about pharmaceutical companies flooding the Midwest (which is in an opiate addiction crisis) with fentanyl and oxy. Towns of 10,000 people having millions of pills in them......and guess who is handing out millions of pills to opiate addicted towns of 10,000 people? Doctors.
The problem with Doctors in therapy being "trained" is they don't have to update their skill set. A therapist in his 60's who got his PhD in the 1970's can still be "treating" patients without having learned anything new. They treat people with an archaic pseudo-science that hasn't had updates in decades and their treatments always lead to them handing you a piece of paper with the name of a pill on it.
The OP of this thread is 21 years old and is on prescribed anti-depressants. I highly highly highly doubt OP is clinically depressed. That's a major fucking problem with our society. These quacks are shoving pills down people's throats for being gloomy. They won't even have people try lifestyle changes first before going the pill route, they prescribe a pill on day fucking one.
@InfamousICON
You have some very valuable points and it's definitely a good thing to see a perspective that is completely against medication, I never thought that medication could necessarily be a bad thing at all, but honestly haven't been seriously educated at all on the effects, the science behind it, etc.
I've seen my therapist since I was a junior in high school, I'm currently about to be a senior in college. When I was in high school, she recommended antidepressants, but I always passed because I felt uncomfortable with putting pills I don't know shit about inside of my body. I also would say I had significantly less life experience back then and just generally was nowhere near as smart as I am now. Which is normal.
I'm a Christian (which also happens to be my name) and had breakfast with my pastor recently. He thought the same thing; you got to naturally heal, not rely on antidepressants to do the work for you. I would not classify myself as lazy at all, but I've been frustrated as fuck because I've been tryna change (learning from negative experiences with people and changing my behavior or even things like changing my diet and eating healthier) but I've still felt like at times ending myself and genuinely feeling like a piece of shit. I don't wanna feel that way bruh. I got a family and a younger brother with special needs I gotta look out for, supportive friends, career goals.
And that's what drives me nuts bro. I got a lotta good shit going for me. I'm well aware that people have it way worse than me, have had extremely rough upbringings, and just deal with way worse shit in general. And yet shit like ending myself pops into my head. I tend to not show a lotta emotion in front of others, but when I'm on my own my mind fuckin races. So I'm not sure what I'd classify that as if not depression, but regardless of what the term is I'm tryna change for fuckin good. Sure not everything is gonna be good all the time, that's life. But I'd at least like to feel good more often than bad.
Anyways, I appreciate your feedback bro you always have quality shit to say on here.