Manic depression?

Erm, wouldn't visting a doctor be a better idea, rather than diagnosing yourself?

Don't go on tablets, whatever the doctor says.

Don't go on tablets, whatever the doctor says.

Don't go on tablets, whatever the doctor says.

Please keep your medical advice to yourself, unless you are a qualified doctor.

Bull****. If the doctor feels you're going to kill yourself within the week unless you have the tablets, then you take the bloody tablets. Certainly don't take them if you feel you don't need them, but if your doctor insists you take them, then take them. Side-effects are nasty but so's depression, and for some people a numbing of emotions is better than being depressed.

Please don't tell me what I can and can't do unless you are my mother

Please don't tell me what I can and can't do unless you are my mother

Don't go on tablets, whatever the doctor says. You do need to see a doctor though, the internet is a hive of rubbish any idiot can put stuff on.

Manic depression is not the same as just being sad all the time, you go through hyperactive phases, you miss them when the tablets take them away.

Ahem.

Well duh; we're posting on some ****ty health forms and none of us are medical experts! Anon asked for our advice. Not going on tablets is my advice on the matter. They're mood-killers.

I'd rather be dead than apathetic.

Please don't tell me what I can and can't do unless you are my mother

Fine.

OP: follow this idiot's advice if you want to cure your depression by killing yourself.

Giving out medical advice regarding something as serious as depression is not something you can do as a layman. As far as I'm aware, you have no experience of treating patients with various degrees of depression, and as such have no real idea as to the method of treatment that will suit the OP best. Hence everyone in the thread urging the OP to visit a doctor where a proper diagnosis can be given, and the most appropriate course of treatment ascertained.

Haha, you are taking this so personally, chill out; you're gonna give yourself a heart-attack. It's the internet! No-one cares what any of us think.

Right, there are good and bad points to taking tablets as there are with anything. Let's be more productive and give good point and bad points? Yes?

I'll start; they can be addictive and hard to come off, you can become dependant upon the tablets and believe you NEED them to stay happy.