Reply #2: I think the cutesy commercials and names don't help...

[SemiCharmedQuark]

People think it is just an easy answer, and it's not. Going on medication is hell as anyone who has can tell you. The adjustment period is a nightmare. For me, at least, things got worse before they got better.

My partner used to always complain that I slept too much, was too tired, didn't have enough energy, etc. I was just starting seroquel and klonopin at the time. Anyway, I kept telling him that he couldn't understand because he wasn't on it. So I guess he decided to be a smartass one day and took one of my pills without my consent. That's how little he knew about it. He thought it was like an asprin or something that you can take even if you don't need it.

He passed out (I wasn't there, he says he was walking to the bathroom and he just got all foggy and didn't remember anything else). He slept for a day and a half before waking up. I came home the next day and every time I would try and wake him up, he would just say he was still too tired. He could have KILLED himself for being so stupid, he had no idea how powerful those little pills are. But, he never ever again said that I slept too much.

As far as the cutesy commercials, I mean the one for Zoloft with that cartoon and the giant cartoon of the brain and its "chemicals" (which I find so sad that it has to say that it is a dramatization). How can you take a serious condition seriously when the manufactureres of the drugs to treat it are dumbing it down trying to make a quick buck?

The cutesy names? SAD, seasonal affective disorder. They named it SAD on purpose making it essentially a joke. "I'm SAD" ha ha ha...ha.