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I'm sure there is a "depression" component to it, but my current thought is that the "depression" is a result of the injuries. Years on various antidepressants with no real change and then being off them and feeling better tells me it's not a chemical imbalance thing, at least not for me.
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YES!!!!!!!!! Depression is just one of my TBI symptoms, not the cause of all the others. I have faced a lot of difficult circumstances in my life, but I NEVER had these issues before my MVA. It is all IN MY HEAD - but not the way ignorant doctors think. In fact, my injury has made me rethink the whole concept of "metal" illness.

People have to weigh the evidence, and make up their own minds, but I refuse to use SSRIs. There is NO study, not funded by the drug companies, that proves they work. In fact, the only large, independent study of their use in TBI patients, conducted at Toronto's Sunnybrooke hospital, indicates, AT BEST, that they are not effective.

Anecdotally, I don't find I'm any more depressed than brain boo boo patients, of my acquaintance, who are taking Zoloft, etc...