Against antidepressant medication

[Ella1980]

Hi all

Basically there are lots of very traumatic things going on in my life at the moment and it has caused me to feel very mentally unwell. I have had extremely dark thoughts and my sleep is averaging around 4 hours per night.

I am having weekly counselling which sometimes helps, sometimes doesn't. My fiance stressed that I should see my GP. I did, and he prescribed Setraline for me.

However, try as I might, I just don't want to take medication. I don't see the point in masking issues with drugs and taking them is not going to solve my problems and make everything OK again.

My mum and my fiance both disagree and want me to take the pills but I really strongly feel against doing so.

Anybody ever felt the same?

I take sertraline and have for a while. I have chronic depression.

I wouldn't be without it, I have the type of depression where you are sad /empty for no reason whatsoever. Great hubby, two great children and a newborn baby. A good life. So why depressed?

I firmly believe that these meds help me to get through things that I couldn't without them.

If that makes sense, I'm half asleep after a 4am feed with baby x