I just skim read through this thread and noticed someone talking about depression..
I have to say I have suffered strongly with these things: Depression, anxiety, anger, emotional break downs on rare occassion, thoughts of indirect suicide (which i would never carry out), fustration, despair etc... Now I feel alot more balanced... there where 3 things that attributed to my feeling better and avoiding taking anti depressants:
1) Homeopathy, (it fucking works.. I have seen it work my whole life as my dad is a Homeopath)
2) Heavy social interaction (part of my depression was feelings of withdrawing from people and a feeloing that I just kept fucking up new friendships... thanks to 3 of my closest friends patcience and honesty I've gotten alot better. Particularly one friend whom I have become closer to in the last few days, without his and also another friends constant encouragement I don't think I would be able to cope living in Albury.
3) Going to the gym and just doing something that gives u a sense of achievement. Doesn't have to be gym.. just has to be something u can look back on and say hey... I did that and I don't need to justify myself to u... U think ur better than me? Explain it to the phat end of my baseball bat.. lol jk... But yeah to answer the question:
no I've never been on drugs as in medication.... why? because they are usually physical suppressants that cause alot of side effects after prolonged use and if u suddenly stop using them they fuck u over with another few side effects. Doesn't mean all are bad... just means for phsycological and or physcial see a homeopath for a natural cure... may take yrs to minutes to heal.. but its a fuckload better than hard drugs...
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