Happy Pills

[MattH]

We really didn't need to know that.

[Ecthy]

four times a day isn't too much, I've had more before

and yes, anti depressant medication does a good job here. shows how overstressed we are usually...

[st_swithin]

Paxil was developed by the same company as the company that developed Viagra. Wonder if there's any connexion?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by st_swithin
I used to be on Zoloft for years, until the side effects outweighed the benefits of comfortable synthetic numbness.

These days I'm usually pissed-off and moody instead of chemically indifferent, but I find that that is a much more natural state of being for me, and it's really helped my writing.

Now all I gotta do is find a brilliant-yet-predictably-stable-and-independently-wealthy muse to move in with, have a rocky and tumultuous relationship, develop a SERIOUS drinking problem, get kicked out, crawl back, get kicked out again, crawl into the bottle, crawl out of the bottle, pen The Great American Novel, and finally become rich and famous based on my own merits and not those of my wealthy benefactor.

If only my name was Chuck Palahnuik - that would solve all my problems and I'd have achieved everything I ever set out to do by the time I'm 30 years old.

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS, KIDS.

Just say no!
Stay in school!
And whatever you do, DON'T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!!!

That's so crazy that it just might work!

[st_swithin]

Who says it didn't?

:|

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Carlos113
I think if the source of depression is really from a bad synapsis (sp?) in your brain then you can´t fix it by "facing your fears", "tough it up" "whatever" IMHO, same as you can´t fight a bad infection without antibiotics (well you can try but...).

Edit: But I agree with this too,


If the problem isn´t severe, wich is something that a profesional should judge, not a bunch of people in a web forum , then you don´t need them... as somebody else said meditate or something, spend more time with your family, friends, etc.

Yes, get yourself to a physician and have him / her decide exactly what sort of problem you have. A lot of people are depressed for physiological reasons, and all the bucking it up or therapy in the world isn't going to help them with that.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by PLATO
Asher, in many cases medication is indicated. In many it is not. The problem is that the medical community is predisposed toward medication. In your case the medication may be the best solution. It is not insensitive to suggest that in other cases medication may not be the best answer. Given the emerging data on the long term effects, one would be wise to consult all options before deciding on a treatment option. Simply going to see a professional and letting them decide is an abdictation of you responsibility to yourself.

What a load of crap. The professional isn't going to decide anything for you, you have to do that. What they will do is give you their opinion of what is wrong and suggest a treatment plan. You can take it or leave it, they aren't going to let you decide your own treatment plan if they disagree with it. So the only ways that someone is going to end up on anti-depressants who shouldn't be are these:

1) Misdiagnosis. If you are afraid that you have been misdiagnosed or just careful, get a second opinion.

2) Malpractice. Either your doctor made a stupid mistake, or he is unethical. Sue him and find someone else.

3) The current standard of care is the best we have, but it changes as new evidence and techniques come to light. Perhaps in the future these drugs will be considered to be less than optimal. They might even be considered dangerous. Based upon our current data however they are a lot less dangerous than the chance that you will commit suicide if you don't treat your depression. Add to that the improvement in the quality of life that many people here have testified to and taking the drugs seems a reasonable risk.

[Q Classic]

i got off lexapro. i'm not dizzy in the mornings anymore. i'm back on wellbutrin... four weeks before they really start working....

i feel like i'm sinking...

maybe things will look better in the morning.

[Ecthy]

maybe we should all commit collective suicide

[Drogue]

I never thought I'd see 'Poly turn into a suicide cult

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Zylka
I'm on PAXIL, and I HAVEN'T HAD AN EJACULATION SINCE FOUR (4) TIMES YESTERDAY

My girlfriend is very angry that I'm on Lexapro.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Lorizael
I've observed my lack of motivation, my disinterest in doing things beneficial to myself, my lack of desire to even do the things I'm supposed to love (reading and writing).

That sounds an awful lot like me.

[st_swithin]

I was on Wellbutrin for about 2 months - then the seizures started, and I was hospitalised as epileptic before one orderly was intelligent enough to look in my stuff and found the Wellbutrin. He'd been in a clinical study for the crap, and he'd had seizures as well.

[Elok]

Yeah, Wellbutrin's a load of crap. Nobody should judge the usefulness of antidepressants based on its example.
And we couldn't possibly be a suicide cult. We'd disagree about how to kill ourselves. Bods would strike every method we came up with until we found one that hadn't been used for lynching by the KKK, Swithy would refuse OD pills and suggest alternatives nobody would be able to understand, many of us would argue against various methods for their poor symbolism, Obiwan and Albert Speer would get into a fight over what deity we were sacrificing ourselves to, Sava would make fun of both of them, Ned would interject periodic provisos about getting the Pope's approval...we couldn't even solve the problem by killing each other, because Ming wouldn't let us. Let's face it; as a group, we are too contrary for death to handle.

[Whaleboy]

I never thought I'd see 'Poly turn into a suicide cult

I'm game if you are! Anything to avoid college!

Simple solution, we recognise depressives for the superior beings we are, giving us near omnipotence. That way, the world will be run by people who know how to do it, and we get to exorcise our demons by the application of absolute power!