Yes, but here's the trick once you are on the meds
its a heck of a time getting off- some alter chemistry to such an extent that it may not be advisable to get off...even though common sense would say so.
Here's my take, when Prozac was the darling of antidepressants I went to my HMO doc-who was a decent doc as far as allopathic goes, and told her about some problem- what do you think was next? The scipt pad came out and take these- with xanax-zan adoo!-which is addictive...
I took a months worth and lost any interest in medicating the pain and frustration of that particular problem.
It happened again when I went to a psyhcologist that my friend used, his standard treatment that 99% of his patients were on- same two drugs, then he spoke to you for an hour...and that was his regime. I opted out . So yes, some are just going day to day with
Depression and fearful emotions.
Try acupuncture, massage, energy healing, with a good diet and loving yourself for the bad, good, and ugly- cuz' it's you..and that's all you really have. Hot baths with
Epsom Salts . Candles with scents- every loving pampering thing you can think of join SOM-get mind treatments.
What blows my mind is that we have such a toxic cultural norm (norm?) so much runs under the surface- that little girls and boys are abused by persons of trust and we don't really do much to those individuals? I'm concern that the "only the strongest survice" really means only the the psyhcopaths survive, and the really dominant manipulative aggressive ones survive.