I came off it a while ago but after a few months felt myself being pulled dangerously towards the event horizon of the black hole. I quickly found a psychiatrist who'd help someone with no insurance, and got more medication. I'll try to bring myself off it again, using herbal and nutritional supplements, but I'm aware that I might always need to be on it. I need to wear glasses or contacts to correct my sight, and I need Effexor to correct a chemical imbalance in my brain. I'm sick of the stigma attached to taking anti-depressants.
Depression is an illness.
It's a serious illness - the majority of suicides are committed by people suffering from clinical depression. In my experience, it's something that far too many people still know far too little about. I went into a black hole and I came out the other side. A Patient's Guide Alt.