Depression, like many other forms of physical illness, hit people from time to time. Mine seemed to come after being in high stress for a long time. I'm still not sure if it wasn't hormone related but in any case, it got to the point where I knew that I couldn't fix it on my own because what I was doing just wasn't helping at all. Finally, I gave in and went to see a medical provider in regards to the crying, horrible fatigue and blue feelings that just seemed to get worse instead of better. Effexor was the answer at that time to the current issue.
However, this particular antidepressant is much harder to go off of than it is to go on to. You do have to go on it little by little and check with the medical provider to make sure things are going ok. So I started this medication in 2002 and it did help, thankfully. I kept this little piece of personal information to myself because, I felt somehow ashamed that I needed this type of medication to "fix me." It worked and that was what mattered at that point in time, because I needed to be a functional human being that could deal with life and what was happening in life right then.
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