Depression is almost never caused by actual life circumstance - just by your response and usually a delayed response.

Also you should try your SSRI prescription. They really aren't very strong drugs. You might get mild relief or if you're like me and the majority of people you will see no effect whatsoever. It's worth a try anyway. You won't get "high" or "dull" or any of that nonsense. At best it will lift your mood a bit. But more often than not, just won't do anything.

Well, all the n number of times I have been depressed in the past has been resolved by a change in life circumstances, so perhaps I am just an outlier?

> SSRI prescription

I'm supposed to take an NDRI (Bupropion) and not an SSRI, which is kind of like Ritalin or cocaine. The problem is that I already take amphetamines every single day, so I am not sure why this is really the one my doctors settled on.

> Also you should try your SSRI prescription. They really aren't very strong drugs. You might get mild relief or if you're like me and the majority of people you will see no effect whatsoever. It's worth a try anyway.

Someone else in the thread's testifying with personal experience that there were significant withdrawl symptoms after only a few months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999622#46008522

Are they lying, or are you misrepresenting something?