Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes

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152. particularly when alcohol is itself a depressant

THis thread is making me sick. More shitting on people with mental illness. Anyone that has not suffered the utter hell of depression or anxiety or both has no damn room to talk. This is the exact stigmatizing BS from those that haven't a clue that keeps people from accepting much needed meds for mental illness and to want to get off of them far too soon when they finally accept them. It's this terrible and totally unwarranted stigma that made my mom refuse meds when my father died and she went into such a violent depression she stopped getting out of bed, and actually DID temporarily lose her marbles having no idea where she was or who she was or anything. That finally FINALLY convinced her to take the meds and it was a miraculous improvement. Yet because of that damn stigma she was constantly wanting to get off the meds even though she knew how very much they helped her and how desperate she was without them. SHe crucified herself on the alter of the stigma that went along with taking meds for mental/emotional issues. And for God's sake she was a nurse her whole life!

Good Lord, and here we have someone in here actually advocating self medicating with booze. Holy Mary and Joseph, there are just no words to describe how thoroughly fucked up and dangerous that is.