good article here

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...s-the-victim-0

I tried Prozac to increase prolactin levels (which it did) for MS. Can't say it helped MS but i'd never want to quit it (only 10mg's) cause it makes the day a slightly brighter one.
Smile in a bottle.

I wish I could taken an anti-depressant. Every one I took had serious side effects for me.
It is my belief that we are living in a world that has become so depressing that it would be abnormal not to be depressed to some degree. I need not list what is going on. If you watch TV or listen to radio news programs or even peruse the internet for news, you already know.

Becoming depressed about "what is going on", in the world or in one's own life is different than the depression caused by changes in neurochemistry. The latter responds well to AD, while the former often does not.

With love, Erika

So true, thanks. You can't just "cheer up"
and get rid of MS/demylinating depression.

I read the article and read about the blame game. I thought it funny that they blame the persons parents and family. So they played the blame game in the article. Main stream psychology does that quite a bit and I'm not 100% on board with that one. Some people become depressed for reasons other than their "conditioning" in childhood. I know someone who when through a period in their life when they did a lot of bad stuff. Now they are clean cut but the remorse of what they did is causing them grief and depression. Whatever happened to this person in their childhood had nothing to do with what he did and what he is experiencing.

There are others that I know that had horrible and abusive childhoods and have become outstanding adults. They were able to recognize the issues from their childhoods and turn their lives around so the pattern did not repeat itself.

I agree with Erika as well. There is situational depression as well as depression caused by ones chemistry. For a lot of MSers, it is a neurologically based depression and there is treatment for that.