  chris wrote me a great comment pertaining to my post on the quiz. here's what i say to him: mmm celexa.
celexa is my friend and has been for some time. i'm a big proponent of medication when used in conjunction with psychoanalysis and other forms of therapy, as well as alternative forms of therapy (yoga, acupuncture, biofeedback, etc). i think a lot of doctors and patients alike think that SSRIs and other psychoactive drugs will simply cure them, like an antibiotic cures a case of strep throat.
that's one problem i have with my mom. she takes her meds (which definitely make a huge difference), but if she has a bad day, she thinks she needs to have her dosage upped or her meds changed, when actually it just could be she had a bad day, or didn't work on her own reactions to the bad day. awhile back i went off meds, thinking i could actively contain my "moods". for four months i was doing great.
then i stayed up for two days and was hallucinating at work on the third, and scared the shit out of family and friends. meds can be a crutch, but when used as a form of treatment, they can make the other treatments more effective. and that's what i gots to say about that. 
