Open for discussion
Getting older is not for whimps and I believe many older folk become very depressed thinking about what to do for the future, and what happens beyond this life etc. etc.
Being on the new type of anti depressant which is NOTHING like the old Vallium is something I believe a God Send, as it balances out the thoughts of feeling hopeless and sad for the things we are not now able to do, and also the health issues I would think probably all Seniors have, plus any shock diagnoses re a serious illness.
Many Seniors, and not so Senior people, find it difficult to go on, in a happy state of mind because they worry to much. My Sister-in-laws sister committed suicide because at 40 found things getting difficult, but if these caplets had been around I do not think she would have, leaving two young children.
They just fix the imbalance a brain may have, and in the right cases "a miracle". I have a Doctor's wife who is a friend, who will never go off them and neither will I :)
Phyl I think most of us on here who have known you for a long time were relieved when we heard from you that anti-depressants were prescribed after what was a traumatic time and helped you so enormously that you came back as your old self. Nobody should underestimate the disaster that depression makes of a persons life, thank goodness that there are such a medication such as anti-depressants, too many lives have been lost needlessly in previous generations. It is great that the old you is back.