antidepressants

[smallmovesal]

well, my sister wants me to go to see someone about my dosage... as much as i hate therapy maybe i need it.

i am still making work at design school...

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Anti D's are the most OVER-prescribd drug out there. They come out with symptome like "tired" OR "having bad days" or "trouble eating'...hey it's fucking called LIFE.


Sometimes i can't sleep. Sometimes my appetite is fucked (especially with chick problems...we've all been there) - fucking SHIT HAPPENS.

But Skywalker.....doesn't my doctor know better than you???


Maybe - but your doctor is a member of an HMO that subscribes to a druig rating company - which rates the drugs that should be most often prescribed.

Guess who owns them......you got it, pharmaceutical companies....

and if a doctor doesn;t choose from the list, he/she runs the risk of getting kicked out of the HMO (and losing his/her income) so at the end of the day

YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE BEST DRUG FOR YOU



anit-D's are a sham.

 

[sathanas]

"i think people that stay depressed for long periods of times are just weak minded people. again, i have never ever gone through some kind of depressing period."

Zampon I can tell you that many "great" and intelligent and accomplished people battle with depression.
Why don't people understand that depression really doesn't need a "reason".Then again if you need a reason there are plenty.Only stupid people are always happy.

Smallmovesal,I've also cycled Effexor at 75mg max and it has helped me.How long have you been on?Like said,it takes awhile to kick in and depression can sometimes worsen in the beginning.

 

[smallmovesal]

i've been on since about the middle of august

 

[sathanas]

Skywalker,again,depression can be so severe that you cannot function in life at all.Drugs have sides but they have prevented lots of suicides also.
You can't say to a depressed person to just "snap out of it".It just doesn't work that way.

 

[musclebrains]

well, my sister wants me to go to see someone about my dosage... as much as i hate therapy maybe i need it.

i am still making work at design school...

Um, who prescribed the Effexor? You would be much better off getting a full work-up with a psychiatrist. They don't do anything but study these drugs now, typically. Your dose is probably too low, in any case.

I assume you understand that one characteristic of depression is stasis, a kind of hopelessness about any remedy, so it is natural to resist therapy in that state. (It's almost as if the depression has a mind of its own and it is easy prey for the cultural myth, repeated here, that depression and drugs to treat it are all a big game and scam.) Might I suggest you follow X's advice and read William Styron's "Darkness Visible." It is the best piece on depression I've ever read. (I'm glad we agree on something X!)

I do think certain sacrifices or compromises are made when you decide to medicate but, in a very black depression, these are usually worth taking on. I urge you to see someone right away. I'm sure your sister has made the point to you that depressions of the type you are describing seldom resolve themselve spontaneously with any efficiency.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Skywalker,again,depression can be so severe that you cannot function in life at all.Drugs have sides but they have prevented lots of suicides also.
You can't say to a depressed person to just "snap out of it".It just doesn't work that way.

I never used those words or belittled depression. You have put ugly words in my mouth - VERY UGLY.

All i did was call attention to the reality about doctors and what is prescribed.

 

[Test boy]

smallmovesal...this is what you need to do:

Don't worry...be happy. I always wonder how you came up with the name 'smallmovesal'.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Skywalker,again,depression can be so severe that you cannot function in life at all.Drugs have sides but they have prevented lots of suicides also.
You can't say to a depressed person to just "snap out of it".It just doesn't work that way.

I never used those words or belittled depression. You have put ugly words in my mouth - VERY UGLY.

All i did was call attention to the reality about doctors and what is prescribed.

 

[smallmovesal]

my family doc prescribed it... i only went at the urging of my sister.

anyway, i'll likely be going pretty soon.

thanks..