I'm one of those people for whom all neurochemical medications are potentially dangerous, even fatal. Non-psychiatric meds that affect brain function even marginally are bad for me. I genuinely envy those for whom the drugs work.

It's like calling insulin 'happy shots'. Anti-depressants aren't even... anti-depressant in the way most people think of it. They're chemical regulators that help restore the brain to functionality. They don't remove depressive thought patterns or bad situations, they just normalize function so that one can do the heavy lifting. I think people are vastly misinformed about what depression is, because it's not being 'sad'.

Further, that attitude always seems to me to be so puritanical, as though one is devalued by not 'suffering through'. Even if they were 'happy pills', what would be so terrible about being happy with just a pill? Ridiculous.