Wow, thanks for the support and advice to
everyone! I definitely plan to continue with the medication, I still feel groggy with it in the morning, but it does seem to be lessening a bit day by day, so hopefully it will dissipate entirely.
My diet and exercise routines are nearly non-existent, and I know that can be a huge factor with depression. However, I really don't have time for either at the moment with everything that's going on. When I *do* manage to get the time...I'm like UT, I just want to curl up in a ball on my bed and sleep until something else I need to do comes up, which is why I decided to get the medication for now.
Normally I manage without it because although I feel like crap a lot of the time, it doesn't inhibit me from doing the things that I like to do, and the things I need to do. But lately it's begun to interfere with my life, in a big way, and I need to have it looked at from a medical perspective. I plan to keep on this and see my doctor as she asks me to (I just got a new doctor as well, who I like and trust very much) and I also plan to keep up with my counseling appointments.
(PS: The reasons MTP gave for not liking anti-depressants, are the same reasons that I have for not wanting to be on them long-term if I don't have to be.)
Thanks for the encouragement, and I'm glad the cellar is so open and helpful, even to us anonymouses.
