Sometimes there are scientific solutions for the problems we face. Having been depressed to the point of considering suicide at several points, I can say that antidepressants helped me a lot. I had a lot more energy and found it easier to concentrate. Moreover, I didn't have to drag myself through every single day by sheer will (in hindsight I'm amazed I survived in this state for any length of time). If you tell any doctor, and it doesn't even have to be a psychiatrist, that you're having thoughts of suicide, they'll prescribe these because there's mountains of data showing these drugs are effective.
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Self-Diagnosed Dec. 2010
135 Aspie, 65 NT--Aspie Quiz
AQ 40
BAPD--124 aloof, 88 rigid, 83 pragmatic
EQ/SQ--21/78--Extreme systematizing