Question for all forums re posters

If you're considering using medications yourself. The negatives normally out way the positive, because they claim low seratonin causes depression but cannot actually prove it. So their only evidence of support is when antidepressants help someone out. So its a gamble with each person. And because they go off that it helped a certain person. They think it will help everyone out. Actually their has been a studies done, about seratonin that disproved it causes depression. The study was done on veterans. The doctors gave them an increase on a vitamin that is said to help boost seratonin levels. The depression didnt go away or get worse. So psychiatrist don't actually know the cause, they just know the symptoms. And how to make pharmaceutical companies happy,

I wanted to thank everyone for there responses of which are many. I am pretty new to dealing with the meds as it is not for me but for my adult son. I really have turned a blind eye as I don't know, don't understand. It just makes my mind go nuts. But I realize that someone needs to be an advocate for him I just don't know who can. Each person has there own bias including myself. I try and hope that each person involved is truly trying to help not make things worse. In past years dealing with alcoholic. I soon learned through alononan that I did not have a problem. Made me think this will get worse and made me more aprehensive. So that organization was not the answer. In recent years a problem that I had been dealing with an offspring has gone from one problem into a whole other problem as my son has aged. FRom diagnosis of adhd to now to depression and  bipolar. I do realize that there are varing states of bipolar. I am just not sure that what the doctors are saying is true. I don't see the behavior that is bipolar (the rage at least) some of the behaviors that they spoke about the indecisiveness have been there since birth. I have always told people he came out then decided he didnot want to come and changed his mind. Then 24 hours later Doc said are you ready for this little boy to join us. At that time I said yes doc it is time for him to arrive whether he wants to or not.

?I guess what I have been hearing from folks is that there is not clearcut diagnosis. So what we get is trial and error. Quite frustrating in that I hear every day that someone does something crazy in the news and that some are treated. Makes me wonder how many of those people are on medication or maybe didnot take their medication or maybe they should be using medication. And wondering when I am going to have to join the party. I am sixty three years old and am not on any medication except for drops after cataract surgery.

?Sorry for the rant. Any more I guess I am like a lot of you looking for answers but just getting bits and pieces here and there.