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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.