Comments by "Ellie" (@ellie698) on "The Antidepressant Epidemic is a Disaster" video.

  1. You were grieving and quite possibly, almost certainly, traumatised by what you'd been through. You needed support and affection from someone who could help you process and cheer to terms with it all, someone to just listen to you, care for you and be with you. The last thing you needed was drugs. I'm so sorry for your terrible loss and the way you were treated. I hope you have come through it all 🙏
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  2. People need to feel 1) that they matter to (at least one) someone 2) that they have a future and things to look forward to 3) that they make a positive difference in the world 4) they feel a sense of achievement and agency If you haven't been parented well, you're going to struggle with all of these. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy isn't going to help if you have a crushing feeling that you have no value and that nothing you do will ever make a difference. Coming from a terrible family wasn't a "lifestyle choice" and until the vacuum of love and care that was NEVER provided by caregivers is addressed, no amount of TALKING about "lifestyle choices" will help
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  3. I'm so sorry your mother was so awful ☚ī¸
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  4. Thank you for a comment that shows understanding and compassion for others 🙏
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  5. It's impossible to get counseling on the NHS, it's far easier to keep someone on antidepressants for their whole life. It keeps a large proportion of people functioning, not happy and their underlying issues untouched but at least they're not suicidal. But given enough extra stressors and the inability to cope, connect with others, self, soothe, cognitively deal with they're problems, some of those on antidepressants will inevitably succumb to their depression and choose to end their lives. There simply isn't the social support and one to one counseling/prolonged therapy that everyone needs. If more social support and truly effective talk therapy (much of it just isn't.... for all sorts of reasons too long to go in to here)was available more people would be able to cope, survive, even thrive. Thinking outside the box further, many people are unhappy because they haven't been properly and adequately parented. More emphasis on good parenting skills, relationship skills, conflict resolution skills etc would help parents and their children cope better with the ever present difficulties that life continually throws at everyone. So much to say on this subject.
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