[merylsilverburg]

I've been diagnosed with a mild depression. I went to the doctor today because I wasn't feeling well, and he went off and talked to my sister, saying that I do have a slight depression. I've been getting ill for a long time (ever since freshman year) and missing a lot of school....and everytime I go to him, he always asks if I'm stressed. I am stressed out, but I brushed it off because I usually can handle it. Well, it got to that point where I am actually a very healthy person, but because of my depression, I've been getting sick more and more and feeling more stressed than normal. So, he prescribed me anti-depressant.
I always knew I was depressed, but I always kinda denied it. What he said was the way I talk (very monotone, but I didn't realize it was from depression) and the way...that there's just something not right with me. Like...he said I'm supposed to be a teenager, but there seems to be an unsettling cloud over me that it's just doesn't feel right. Like I'm never at ease; always stressed out. So, that's when he suspected. And now, I have a choice whether or not to take the anti-depressant. Now, I don't know what to do.