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Originally Posted by Molten
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/drug
Read definition 1. Vitamins in the form you described above falls under this definition of a drug. It really doesn't matter whether or not it is natural.
Also, The link I was sent to suggested there is a correlation between perfectionism and high achieving. It stated that perfectionists tend to have depression. I'm not arguing that point. Perfectionists may. I don't know, I'm not one. However, I'm saying that perfectionists are just one of many types of high achievers. I'm the kind of guy that comes acrossed as lazy, doesn't study much for tests, and often don't pay attention in class. Definitely not a perfectionist or your "standard" high achiever. However, I've got a 3.7 GPA and am half way to my mechanical engineering degree. It isn't about what a person does that makes a person depressed, its how they choose to accomplish.
Disclaimer: Not suggesting everybody does things my way, just saying they do work for me.
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Just to comment on your behavior, I think you are right in the sense that it is how you choose to do things. I'm far from being a high achiever but I do fairly well in school without needing to focus. I've also hit points of depression so I can see both sides of this spectrum. Essentially I live my life stressfree because a friend of mine taught me that there is no limit to apathy. Now I'm not saying you should be apathetic about everything because I think that that would be a really bad idea but sometimes you just need to not focus so hard on life and just go with the flow of things. I hate it when things don't go the way that I want them to or the way that I figured that they would go but I've learned to deal with it by just being apathetic about it. I know that it isn't the best advice but you sometimes need to just live life for you and not care about the rest of the world. Give yourself the time and space you need to get rid of anything causing depression. Taking a step back and looking at things from a different perspective is generally one of my favorite techniques to overcome anything that is bothering me.