[ross-life]

But drugs are awesome :D

Completely depends on the drug, person and context.

The painkillers when I dislocated my shoulder and they had to reset it? Wonderful.

The antidepressants that after several weeks (so once they'd started "working properly"), made me feel "not unhappy" but like a robot and then also gave me vivid, real nightmares in which I died horribly over and over again? Not so great...

I'd never touch antidepressants ever again. For some people they do work, but for others they don't. Yet we still push them on everyone.

[pyre]

Yet your experience doesn't necessarily match the experience of everyone. It's just a anecdotal to say that your issues with anti-depressants (all of which work differently on different people; even drugs within the same "family") are the same for everyone as it is to invalidate someone else's depression with some BS "I was depressed once, but I pulled myself up by the bootstraps and got better, so that's what everyone needs to do" story.

[cnp]

I think what they're saying is: "side effects are real"