My advice is get a good doctor. Medications help, but finding the type, dosage and combination is as much of an art as it is a science. If you invest the time to get to a combination that works for you it can make a major impact.
Basically the worst thing someone who suffers from depression can do is to try and be a hero and do it on their own.
Treat it no different then if you tore an ACL. You arn't going to get better on your own, and if you dont take the right steps to heal you will limp along your entire life.
I've seen this first hand with more then one very close friend.
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