I too have gone back and forth about meds. I'm not on them at the moment, but I've thought about going back on them recently. There's no doubt I needed to be on antidepressants at one point in my life- I'd been in therapy for a couple months with an excellent therapist, but it wasn't helping as much as I needed it to. After a suicide attempt, I was put on meds. It took a long time to find the right meds at the right dose (and a couple scary incidents of being on the wrong dose), but eventually the combination of meds and therapy and exercise straightened me out.
I went off the meds after a couple years, mostly because I kept forgetting to take them and I was feeling fine anyways. I know I could relapse without them, given my family history and my own personal history. But for the time being, therapy and exercise are working well enough to keep me symptom-free. I don't think I'd be opposed to going back on meds if I started having symptoms again, but I'd also want to know a time frame- how long after I feel OK would I need to stay on them? I'm not OK with being on them indefinitely, but if it's for 6 months or a year to help with specific symptoms, them I'm ok with it.
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