I probably would have killed myself if not for antidepressants. I cared for my elderly grandparents through the end of their life. During that time I saw a ther

I probably would have killed myself if not for antidepressants. I cared for my elderly grandparents through the end of their life. During that time I saw a therapist to talk about my depression that kept getting worse as I slowly watched them die. I kept asking her to prescribe something for me but she said she didn't have the ability to write a prescription. What she didn't tell me and what I didn't learn until my third call to the suicide hotline is I could just ask my primary care physician. I thought I needed a therapist to sign off on it but it wasn't needed at all. I ended up quitting her practice for not bothering to tell me I could just ask my doctor for a prescription we ended up having a fight because she argued that I didn't need them. Meanwhile 3 weeks after I got them I was no longer suicidal. Anecdotally, people say antidepressants are over-prescribed but I've been on that prescription now for 8 years, the last of my grandparents passed two years ago. It is my personal opinion that talk therapy is what is over-prescribed because it didn't do a fucking thing for me while a $7 dollar a month prescription solved in a month. Don't let people tell you what you should do to stay sane, that's between you and your doctor.