Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code
I'd love to hear more people's thoughts about his "Just Say Yes To Drugs".  I'm at the point of considering drug treatments, but intellectually, I'm very biased against them.  I avoid illegal drugs, and rarely take legal ones.  I'm not absolutist, but I'd go out of my way to avoid coffee and ibuprofen. For his example, yes, I would feel the same way about blood pressure and cholesterol, and would work very hard to change my lifestyle before relying on the drugs.  On the other hand, something needs to change.<p>I'm scared of both the dependency and the effects.  I think my basic fear is that if I find something effective, it will be suicide-light, that I'll be killing off too many parts of my self that make me who I am.  It's hard for me to trust the testimony of the treated --- I presume that there are many satisfied frontal lobotomy patients as well. So oddly, I guess I'm more interested in second-hand accounts. My personal experience with treated friends is mixed.  A few seem to be more functional versions of their previous selves, others are much closer to zombie shells.<p>It's a hard subject to discuss, though, and I don't understand whether the differences are chance, personality, or drug regimen.<p>How do you feel about your newly drugged up friends?  Specific treatment details appreciated.