Anyone on Antidepressants?

[wutangnomo]

Damn many of you are living through pills. Pills to be happy, pills to sleep, pills to fight pain, pills to keep emotions in check, pills to think, pills to etc etc etc. Whatever happened to addressing the underlying cause and not solely the symptom?

 

[Daeo]

Does anyone regret taking them for any reason???

 

[Sub-Zero]

if by antidepressants you mean birthcontrol, then no

 

[Sub-Zero]

I was pretty down and depressed for a long while, just too much shit going on you know, life started to feel overwhelming, I stopped taking my pain meds I've been on for almost 2 years, I couldnt sleep, I was having panic attacks, I stopped running/eating/talking, shit was pretty shitty.

Then I talked with my doctor and he put me on lexapro, it didnt seem like it worked right away, but now after 2 weeks or so I think it has really helped. Plus then he gave me some xanax for anxiety and what have you, plus some halcion for sleeping, I think most of the time Im actually pretty happy.

Although I do crave the yummy feeling of some percs, vics, or OC's, but I cant go back down that slippery slope again, the bad shit would just happen all over again.

woah man, im really sorry to hear that...im not sure what the last pargraph means, but what happened to make you so depressed?

 

[Lestat]

woah man, im really sorry to hear that...im not sure what the last pargraph means, but what happened to make you so depressed?

that last paragraph means he loves prescription pain killers.. opiate derivatives such as Vicodin or Oxycontin.

he was hooked on them, and has recently given them up, but now he feels depressed, and as much as he'd like to get high off the poppers, he doesn't want to go down that road again.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Does anyone regret taking them for any reason???

Me...I took some zoloft to eliminate premature ejaculation with a hot date who promised some loving.

It nuked my sex drive so I didn't try much...wasn't interested.

That was only one of several things that went wrong that day.

 

[Sub-Zero]

friend of my family is currently takig about 7 different scripts. she has gained about 35lbs of fat and water and now seems almost brain dead or noncoherant. its almost like watching the anna nicole show all over again.

ROFL!!!

 

[Ulcasterdropout]

Iron. I'm not trying to be a smart ass. Lifting keeps me in check. Off the pills, the bottle and the gun away from my forehead.
I have no doctor. I got my shit from over seas pharms, some did little to nothing, others made me a veg or stoned me so bad I couldn't walk.
I have problems, but untill I try to hurt, mame, rape, kidnap, or murder someone else, I'll let it fester....

 

[wtlftr]

antidepressents fucked with my memory and i slept for 15 hours a day. God Dam GHB fucked me up

 

[Spartacus]

you have to find what works for you and it helps immensely to research and become educated yourself about neuro-transmitters,etc. etc

I basically tell my GP what I want,what dosage and how many
and he's a very capable MD

and no I'm not "living through pills"
I mitigate my consumption and attempt to "get by" with the minimal

when you share some of the same mental characterisitcs as your parents and siblings you know it's not all about environment etc.
I think personally my genetic make-up was suited for the era when we had to kill our food daily and survival was day-to-day