I agree with those who have posted above viz. this being an extremely personal and case-by-case matter. That said, I *can* say from my own personal experience that these medications can be helpful under particular circumstances, and this is something you'd have to determine with the help of a doctor, perhaps a therapist, and most importantly, a lot of self-examination, since only YOU know what's actually going on in your life.

I completely understand your disinclination to "need" a foreign substance; several years ago I was going through an intensely difficult time in my life, and resisted the notion tooth and nail...after spending an entire weekend in bed, feeling well nigh unable to go to work, and realising that I was tipping the scales at a mighty 98 lbs (I'm 5'4" and NOT a Hollywood ingenue!), I agreed to give the idea a try, and it really, really helped me get things back into perspective. I was on the meds (in my case it was Zoloft, but there are many others available now) for about 6 months; I stopped taking them with the okay of my MD when I noticed that I'd been forgetting to take them for days at a time.

So: medication might be an answer for you, or there might be some other, equally effective answer. What I will say is that I think it's a mistake to automatically take against the idea without exploring it thoroughly. As a friend of mine put it at the time, if you have a massive boulder in your yard that needs to be removed, chipping away at it for years with a chisel will eventually remove it as well as a stick of dynamite (for that matter, time alone will erode it, without your stir!)...it's really a question of which tool you want to use to get the job done.

Good luck, and I hope that you feel better soon.

Best,

~D