Having
lived with a housemate who has suffered with quite severe depression for 4 years now, I have heard some wonderful ideas that people come up with as "cures". The best one was my ex telling me "She should just think herself better, anyone can do it". FFS she's 19 and on venlafaxine and mirtazapine! If she could think herself better by now don't you think she'd have done it, you insensitive twat?! I have also been dragged (protesting loudly) to a "faith healing" where the guy in charge was claiming that people would wake up the next day and their depression would be gone so they should try coming off their medication, on their own, without their doctors' advice!! That is truly terrible and irresponsible. I do claim to be christian myself but when people like that start spouting rubbish like that it makes me sick and want nothing to do with what they call "christianity".
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Wed 7 May 2008, 18:16, Reply)