Thank you for sharing your journey, CD. I could relate to a lot of what you said. One of the things I love most about homeopathy (having first been a patient and then becoming a classical homeopathy) is the fact that it deals with removing the reason for the symptoms. It doesn't just mask them, as you've described here with drugs. The drugs don't make the reasons for depression disappear. Or anxiety. And same with many of the treatments, surgeries, drugs etc. of conventional medicine. EG - Cut out the tumour, but then see a homeopath so your body doesn't make another one!
Meditation is truly a game-changer in many ways.
Thank you for sharing your experience.