Anyone on Antidepressants?

[DannoMight]

also i strongly agree with gambino. in fact i'm str8 torquin daily.

 

[wutangnomo]

Wow is everyone on medication these days?

At what age did you guys start medicating yourselves? Just curious.

 

[Raina]

I was 19 or 20 when I went on meds. I was so off the wall out of my mind I didn't really get all that much say. It was either be on them or get pulled out of college and move back to MN where my parents could watch me more carefully.

I'm better than I've been but I was proud of myself for going back on this last time (just a handful of months ago). I knew I was in a downward spiral.

 

[Gambino]

I'm going to get my dose upped again but I feel more "myself" right now.

This is what the drug companies love to hear, their product makes peeps feel more like "themselves"

 

[Raina]

It's easy for someone to say that's what the drug companies want to hear etc. I know myself well enough and am aware enough of my emotional state to know when I can handle things and when I might need some help.

When I'm doing bad I tend to wind up 5'7 and 90 pounds, out of my mind in ways you'd never even imagine. There's a difference between taking something just for the hell of it and actually trying to make yourself feel a little more "normal" whatever "normal" is. I just don't ever want to let myself slide down as far as I've been. So deem me weak or whatever for needing meds or counselling or anything else. You're not in my shoes.

 

[PoyeBoy]

exactly Raina, My meds make me feel more like I should feel, I dont care what anyone else thinks or if I have to take them the rest of my life, when I wasnt on them a few weeks ago I was a complete mess and thinking about taking unpaid leave from work so I could straighten my shit out, now Im pretty okay and am feeling more like my old self, I think that says alot

 

[Gambino]

It's easy for someone to say that's what the drug companies want to hear etc. I know myself well enough and am aware enough of my emotional state to know when I can handle things and when I might need some help.

When I'm doing bad I tend to wind up 5'7 and 90 pounds, out of my mind in ways you'd never even imagine. There's a difference between taking something just for the hell of it and actually trying to make yourself feel a little more "normal" whatever "normal" is. I just don't ever want to let myself slide down as far as I've been. So deem me weak or whatever for needing meds or counselling or anything else. You're not in my shoes.

touche
but you really have no idea what type of shoes i wear or the places they've been. or the shit they have stepped in.
all i was addressing was how great a company would feel to read a consumer claim their product made them feel more normal. their marketing, research, and distrubtion have coordinated perfectly to get that type of consumer response...

 

[SoKlueles]

I actually never thought that anti depressants would work on people...since i had never really been on em.....but when i took the elavil......it was like.....dang....i dont give a crap about anything
Of course when i went to see my dr i was a crying basket case....i was sooooo depressed.
I still have the 2nd bottle......i only took a few.....i took myself off of them because i was feelign better

 

[c-sharp minor]

Exactly..it makes a person SO apathetic to daily life that suicidal thoughts creep in unnoticed

I know my ex was on some form of anti-depressant when she committed suicide. I should see if I can find an old prescription bottle or receipt and find out exactly what she was taking. She had made 2 or 3 attempts, that I know of, during her last few months alive, and had been taking her anti-depressant for about 5-6 months.

hmmm.....

 

[SoKlueles]

when my uncle killed himself he was taking anti depressants but i went to his house the day after it happened and he had only used two of the pills.....didnt give them time to work...