This is a response to a review written by Poetry and Music which reads:

Just curious, why the hell would you try to convince someone to stop taking their anti-depressants? Seriously, depression is a screw up in the chemistry of your brain. Anti-depressants fix it. No sane person would try to get someone to stop their anti-depressants. It's like begging for a suicide attempt. Ya know? Overall, good story. I just feel like you didn't take the time to research what you were writing about.

i was going to just rid of the comment but since it's now allowed here, I'll just post an answer to it.

I didn't have to do the research, it was all about me to be honest. I've been suffering from depression for over 10 years (I'm 26) so I do know how it is to be a teenager and to be depressed. It sucks and the Blaine in this story knows it. Kurt wasn't asking him to get off the pills. He was just surprised that he was back at them after they broke up. For all he knows, he has 'fixed' Blaine. But the truth is, there is no 'fixing' in depression. It's a chronic imbalance of neurotransmitters responsible for mood regulation in your brain.

Kurts's reaction is similar to what I have received from family and from friends. It made me feel ashamed of my disease. It has forced me to keep my depression a secret. I had , for years pretended to be better and at one point , tried to get off my meds. It drove me far deeper into depression that I realized getting off of it will destroy me. But even on it, I still have my bad days. I still wake up saddened by the fact that I am still indeed, here.

It is however, not surprising to see people like Kurt in real life. People who think love could make everything better, that every disease has a cure. They are closed minded, unrealistic and maybe a little ignorant.

If you still think I know nothingt of this disease, well I guess I can't do anything about it anymore. I just felt the need to explain myself. But I understand that not many people get it. Maybe you are one of them. Maybe you just have a different view. Tha way I see it, with or without pills, depressed people feel the same: life sucks, we don't deserve anything, we are better off dead, nothing in life is worth fighting for and lastly, there is no cure.

Now that I've said my view, I hope you get a better insight to my story.

Sheena