I'm wondering if like Time? Magazine dubbed us, we are truly becoming a Prozac Nation. Seems like all my friends are either on anti-depressantso or coming off them. I try to stay away from those trying to come off. Withdrawal seems to make them weird. And I don't think any who have taken them for any amount of time has succeeded in stopping anyway.
I took Paxil for a few weeks after my last divorce. I loved it, but I felt that I was depending on it too much and I was becoming so impulsive. It was difficult, but I just stopped taking it. Later I read some foreign research that identified loss of impulse control as a major side effect and extreme depression as a result of withdrawal.

However, I have never heard any religious implications. I've never heard a sermon about it or any scripture either. Does anyone know any scriptural references? Just curious.
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Good question smile. I don't know of any. I just know that depression is real and many people truly need medication to manage. I would love to believe that faith in God could cancel depression, but I've known many faithful women who have needed the help of anti-depressants at one time or another, even always.

I have to believe that God can change anything including depression, but I also believe that He is the God of science and medicine and uses them to make changes. I can't imagine the God I know wanting any of his children to be in pain if there is a solution.
If there are Scriptures about it, I'm still curious.
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