I went off my medication for depression but then

Just I went off my medication for depression. It was something of a disaster.

The reason I did so is because, like many, if not most, people with a mental health condition, I sometimes bridled my diagnosis with it. I had moments of doubt that my "feeling down" was based on a biological basis, and convinced myself that perhaps it was based on ill-adapted coping habits developed in early childhood, oppressive social and polit....