Quote From: frisco1959Even more so than some physical illnesses, because it is "hidden". There are no blood tests for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and clinical depression. I thought I was "lazy" when I could not keep up the housework and was exhausted after work.
Please, just because you're lucky enough NOT to experience these diseases, don't disparage those who suffer from them. Suicide often seems the only way out as a way of escaping years of side effects from endless medications, time lost from work and constant depression.
...and don't alienate people that have not been down that road either. That's elitism and that solves nothing.
I've actually taken Lexapro for depression, but it really didn't help. The reason it didn't help was that I actually have ADD, not really depression, although I had depression-like symptoms (including suicide ideations when I was a teenager) because they were actually a reaction to my "failures" resulting from ADD.
