Battling Depression

yeah, right not for me i'll stay depressed they said it is'nt a cure let the Dr. that invented it try it and see what they say about it.

this sounds very much like "trephining" did during the middle ages...just drill holes in the skull to let out the "evil spirits"...think i'll stick to the Paxil, thank you

this seems to be a good remedy for the depressed who think they have no hope to be cured but most of them think theres nothing wrong with them and many a times they enjoy their state of depression. nevertheless, i believe this should work but more research needs to be carried out and doctors have to be sure before tehy carry out their surgery.

yikes no way jose!

Why doesn't the medical profession consider something besides talk therapy @ $???/hr. and very expensive and obviously often ineffective health care recommendations? i.e. exercise, removing dietary substances that cause depression, etc. And why does the FDA approve for human consumption drugs that have suicide as a side effect and fail to advise the patietns that the psychotrophic drugs have "discontinuation syndrome". The goal of psychiatric care isn't to get patients off the drugs and the treatment; it's designed to keep the patients for life. When President Bush has gotten Congress to approve funding for MANDATORY mental health screenings for ALL Americans in the "New Freedom in Mental Health", irreversible surgery would be just the ticket to silence political opponents. Why does every county hvae a "Mental Health Center" and not a heart and/or diabetes public center? Never in the history of human kind has there been this unpresidented alteration in mental function via drugs. Do a websearch on M K Ultr,go to ssricrusanders@yahoogroups.com and stop consuming aspertame.

I cannot believe someone actually believes people enjoy being depressed. I suffer from depression and I hate it right now I am up because I am so sad and cannot even sleep. Yes I would love to stop feeling this way.

the saving grace is the fact that there is much research being done to combat this horrible beast that plaques so many.as to enjoying this state of mind (as one comment suggested) who is doing the thinking here? the depression or the person? it is a puzzle.

Sounds great; go ahead and lobotomize me so I'm not aware of the state of the post-Bush world. Everything is wonderful!

I wish my beautiful red headed son could of had this option. He committed suicide last month with a very small gun his ex-girlfriend's dad gave him to do the job with!!! (He was depressed over not seeing his son in 2 years because the mother was a total @#$% and used the little boy to extort money from my son because he owned his own business. I'm in the process of writing a book about the whole deal, because not only did my son lose his life but the ex-girlfriend's mother also committed suicide 3 months later, I guess due to feeling so guilty about everything.

Oh wonderful, a new form of lobotomy. WEll a new way for psychiatry to take what God gave you , your humanity. Why don't people try praying first and asking God for help. the drugs are there to help in that too and those drugs are designed to be used temporarily, not permently. the yareto help you to find your right state of mind so you can findGod to get off of those drugs . And not to reduced to any form of lobotomy or brain surgery that will change your mind or mood. I believe that any form of drug or any thing that is used to alter mental or mood is forbidden . I believe itis even written in some form in sacred texts such as the Bible.