"Clinical Depression & Medication"-Chanel's Story Chanel: "After my mom died and the depression started manifesting itself, I really just thought, this is something that is episodic, and it won't happen again, or it might happen again, but if it does, I will deal with it by myself, and I don't need drugs. I saw drugs as really a, like a crutch; I don't need it, I'm fine, that's for people who are weak. And I eventually found a doctor who said to me, if you had a broken leg, would you kind of walk around with a broken leg, or would you like, put it in a cast? It just seemed so obvious to me, that re-framing, like oh of course, this is a chemical issue, this isn't like a weakness in character, or anything like that. I'd spent so much time feeling terrified and like powerless, that if I was on medication or in like therapy then I would be, I dunno, I would have a quality of life back that I hadn't really seen in awhile. Things would be clearer, I don't know, I would be healthier again, and I don't wanna say that the drugs fix it, and then everything's awesome, but I guess it's a recommitment to the process in believing that I deserve to be healthy."