After all- why buy only one tablet here or there when you can convince someone they need your meds daily for months if not years....
I agree with this. I can take an occasional a/d and it works perfectly well, for a few hours or so, which is sometimes all I need. It doesn't take six weeks to work; I can feel it changing my mood within c 30 seconds. This may be placebo, but I am not sure you could achieve that degree of change of mood when you are really down without an active agent.
With a/ds I personally find no need to take full doses for months. The side effects retain their severity, while the a/d effect wears off, and I find that I have to up the dose to maintain the effect. So I prefer to take nothing, because that way I only have the depression, and not the s/fx. That is why I tried SJW instead, and I much prefer it.
At present I need more, so am taking full dose SJW daily, but as soon as I can cut back to one or none a day, I will. This is much milder than drugs from the doctor, and just as effective against depression. I am sleeping really well, and waking up without that horrible, 'God, I am still alive!!' sinking feeling. And considering what is happening at present, I think I am managing really well. <Crosses fingers.>