[perl4ever]

My point was that regardless of the nature of depression and how well drugs work or don't work, it's well known that psychotropic drugs lead to weight gain and diabetes.

People have an inbuilt homeostatic feedback system which can be naturally out of whack or it can be modified by drugs, and blaming them for not being able to compensate is senseless.

Also, the fact that it can be modified by drugs proves to me that weight gain should not be presumed to be a personal failing. The person who has weight gain didn't become a different person because they took pills.

It's analogous to having a religious experience through electrical brain stimulation - it should make you realize that having such experience is not to your personal credit or detriment.