Go ahead and take mine away. See what happens. I dare you.

Were you clearly diagnosed with clinical depression?

Or did your doctor not know what was wrong, said it was stress related and gave you pills to go away?

Oh yeah definitely. I always knew I had it, I’ve had it my whole life. You try being a suicidal 7-year-old and see how well you like it. I didn’t start getting better until my 30s.

You have my sympathy.

But I’m sure many lemmings reading this recognize the second “lazy doctor” scenario.

But I’m sure many lemmings reading this recognize the second “lazy doctor” scenario.

You’re wrong and an idiot and a shitstain

I have experienced lazy doctors who dismiss everything as stress.

Ask your doctor friends what the phrase “stress related” really means.

I have experienced lazy doctors who dismiss everything as stress

You think people are getting depression diagnosis and SSRIs on that?

Just admit you’re completely uninformed and stay out of discussions in which you are so in future, dude

No. I made that distinction at the top of this thread.

You don’t need clinical depression for a lazy doctor to prescribe Xanax.

Like I said, you don’t know what you’re talking about: Xanax isn’t an SSRI, it’s a Benzodiazepine, literally a depressant

You prescribe Xanax for anxiety because it relaxes you, you prescribe SSRIs for depression to help with serotonin processing, they are not even the same class of drug

Ok, Prozac then. The specific drug is not the point of this conversation.

You realize that in order to get an SSRI you have to go see a psychiatrist right? Like the regular docs won’t / can’t prescribe them? You don’t just go see some GP and be like ‘i r the depress’.