To start, let me respond with the following that we had discussed earlier:<br><br>My POV is that anyone who might be subject to PMS or being teated for depression should include or carry their own choice of medicine, OTC or prescription, under "personal medications." If it was a family survival kit and one or more of the family were taking such meds, they would be packed as part of personal meds section.<br><br>It is certainly worthy of consideration as to whether you should include something for PMS in a more general survival kit with indeterminate users. In fact, I've added this to the list of items for consideration when we update our Arizona Wing CAP survival kits in the not too distant future. We already include feminine sanitary products for both their given use and as a first aid item. What advantage it may or may not have over the standard three OTC analgesics we already include is questionable.<br><br>I'm not too sure what can be done regarding depression. That's far too complicated a disease to be trying some drug of unknown reaction on someone. I'd have to say that anyone using such drugs had best plan to carry their own meds. <br><br>I asked my consulting docs about this issue and here's what they had to say: <br><br>There is nothing, including St. John's, which will work fast enough to counteract depression whatever the cause except for amphetamines or cocaine. Hopefully, the person who has depression related PMS or manic depression is already on meds and should continue taking them. If they are not on meds and have one of these problems, treatment starting suddenly just is not going to work.<br><br>Doug Ritter<br>Editor<br>Equipped To Survive