text: i have  i am sad to say . i have been on a number of meds over the years for the most part prior to now i don't think anyone them were doing much to help with the depression . \n i am sure some of them made things much worse. once a doctor started giving me anti psychotic meds and that messed me up bad i was unable to sit and was in the end after 3 days of going out my mind and putting my car in the ditch admitted to the hosp with the help or my gf and mom.  the meds i had been given had made so so mixed up i failed the test i was given that is very basic IE what day is it and so on . \n that was one doctor  i am pleased to say that the doc was already under the microscope himself as they had in the hosp the director of a mental health hosp there to over see there pyschatric. dept and i was told by this head doctor it was all because of the doctor that put me on the terrible wrong meds \n anyway after that i went through a number of what are called ssri  meds selective serotonin re uptake inhibitors this is the newer class of meds used to treat depression . one is not the same as the next .i am sure you have heard of prozac well that is one ssri but it did not work for me nor did quite a few others\n over the years what was of help to me was anti anxiety medication benzodiazapam type they helped for me but they are \n addicting for many so you have to be sure just to take them really as the doc says or take less then your told. never more at least not much more without telling him.\n right now i am on a drug called welbutrin you might now it as ziban the drug used to help people quit smoking. that med on its own was somewhat helpfull but not much then at my suggestion i started a new med along with it called effexor . that with some use of the mild sedative i have has managed to help me more then any other med . now keep in mind this is just me and each person is different you might be really lucky and get on the right med for you first thing \n as far as the meds go remember this and its important you have the right the legal right not to take the med if you think its not in your best interest . i say that as the time i mentioned with the stupid doc was one of the worst times in my life pacing and so on a real trip one that was as a result not of depression but because of the meds and i knew they were the wrong ones for me but i was not aware enough to stop them soon enough \n another thing is that when you get on a med and it is helping you  come out of the depression this is when people hear about the meds on the news as the person has killed himself . sounds awfull and it is . the reason for this is odd to some but its really simple if you know depression from having it . a person can become so low that they just dont have the energy or will power to get up and do anything that is as difficult as killing yourself\n but when the med starts to work some of the people very few gain the energy back and there still along way from being not depressed so they now are depressed but with some increase in energy and concentration so this is when they are able to follow through with the idea of suicide. \n the med did not cause the sucides it was working just like it should have what if any thing caused the failure in the system was a lack or commmunication with the doctor and the patient and or the person just not knowing that its ok to just go to emergency room and tell them how you feel flat out. \n sure if your a threat to yourself saying you want to kill yourself you do get locked up . but that is only for a few days meaning 3 often and then a review takes place and you might get sent home or asked to stay in both cases if you volonteer to be admitted to the hosp or stay in the hosp longer it goes to show that your not unaware or unwilling to deal with the problem\n i was never locked up for more then 10 days nor did i see anyone in the ward that was there for depression that was locked up longer then 10 days . \n that is no