I hate taking tablets for Parkinson's, but realised I do need them, after going cold turkey for six weeks, and seeing the physical deterioration when I didn't take them.
I was told yesterday by my neurologist that he wants me to take another drug, as well as the ones I'm on now, because it will increase the long term benefits of the other drugs. However he's delaying prescribing these until after my holiday, as it is in the form of a patch...and I don't want to come back with any white bits.
I agree that the amount of young people taking antidepressants drugs is worrying. Depression is a very real illness, but very often drugs just mask the underlying causes, and talking therapies can be a more effevtive long term treatment, and all without side effects.