[Kory]

Not that I endorse self-diagnosing, I think with depression it's pretty easy to tell when one has clinical depression. It's very common, I think more common than most people realize. :(

I also really, really haaaate those ads for medication.
A person (who is not a doctor or any kind of professional) should NOT be able to walk into a doctor's office and tell *the doctor* that they want to be put on (insert med) without any research or any thing to go off of other than some 30 second ad that says "this will cure your bipolar/depression!"

I hate that medications like that are even advertised in daytime TV...

The wrong medication can really severely mess a person up, not just with side effects, but other things as well.

I just think it's not a good thing for people to basically "shop" for medications like that. Medication isn't something that should be lightly considered or be "shopped" like a new purse or a bike .