Depression is a real thing but medications won't really help if your depression is extremely bad. I went to lots of therapy, with different people, my mom wouldn't let me continue seeing the one therapist who actually knew what he was talking about, I was too young to have any say in the matter. I had a Christian therapist who was a real sweet talker but totally full of shit, I didn't realize what an asshole he was until I had already been seeing him for some number of years, I regret ever seeing him. I had a female therapist who specialized in something called "neuro feedback", basically it's a machine with electrodes and they put the electrodes on your head and you sit there and read a book or play a game on your phone or whatever and the therapist monitors your brain signals with the machine, the intended goal is for your brain signals to gradually become more stable over time, and mine became more stable but quickly went back to shit upon stopping the treatment. I am not at all convinced that the method I just described is a suitable treatment for anything. I've been put on several different medications over the years, like honestly I've tried most of the medications they make. I didn't find SSRI's effective at all, while SNRI's (similar but not the same) worked a lot better. I don't really struggle with depression, it's mania that's a problem for me. I am currently taking a mood stabilizer, an anti-psychotic, an SNRI, and an anti-anxiety. I no longer receive any kind of therapy, and I have become deeply pessimistic about therapy in general.
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