Pick a new choice for yourself

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Stay away from SSRIs, they have been linked to suicide, are known to cause dependancy, and have been known to wear off after awhile.

As I understand it, the brain trying to retain homeostasis will downregulate in response to the extra Seratonin, causing the level of Seratonin to go down canceling out the effect of the SSRI. Then when the SSRI is taken away the Seratonin that is lost makes the situation even worse. Also, I have heard that SSRI can limit brain function in the long run.

A bit reductionist. It is a problem that there can be problems associated with antidepressants. It is why anyone taking antidepressants should be closely monitored, but scaremongering like yours is also not correct...millions of people have been helped by SSRIs. And the alternatives? You think counselling is going to help those who genuinely cannot be talked around?

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat

WTMI

WTMI? Way to myocardial infarction?

[Sava]

Originally posted by Elok
Maybe it eventually causes some cognitive downgrade, but I haven't noticed that either. In Sava's case I'd say the more important thing would be to stop playing stupid crap like GTA and rap, which he's evidently been doing recently to judge by his avatar and sig. Immersing yourself in wannabe-street-thug culture and then complaining that life feels empty and meaningless is like going to a Times Square brothel and then complaining when you catch the clap. Duh!

I don't really listen to rap that much. But don't diss GTA biyatch!

It's all in good fun Elok.

[Dinner]

Sava, when I was 24 and still in school I worked as a waiter and delivered pizzas. There was nothing wrong with that since it paid the bills, had flexible hours, and offered something a starving student couldn't refuse... Free food!

As for the girlfriend issue. Those type of things work themselves out if you let them just put yourself into positions where you will meet new people and get out more. Go for a jog, hike some local trails, join a sports team, start playing chess at coffee houses, go to plays, in short get outside because that's where the girls are.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Sava, when I was 24 and still in school I worked as a waiter and delivered pizzas. There was nothing wrong with that since it paid the bills, had flexible hours, and offered something a starving student couldn't refuse... Free food!

yeah the pay is good... I make like $10 - $20 an hour, depending on how busy it is.

As for the girlfriend issue. Those type of things work themselves out if you let them just put yourself into positions where you will meet new people and get out more. Go for a jog, hike some local trails, join a sports team, start playing chess at coffee houses, go to plays, in short get outside because that's where the girls are.

I'm trying online dating... so far I've met 1 good one, that turned out bad... and one weird one, that turned out bad.

I've got two other maybe's that I'm working on.

[Dinner]

Online dating does work. A friend of mine met his girlfriend on Craig's List plus my father of all people has gone on two dates with women he met on Match.com. I'm actually happy to see him dating because in the nince months since my mther died all he did was mop and drink to much. This gets him out more.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Agathon
I'd be Jesus and tell you to stop persecuting gay people.

How do you know he didn't say that and it just got edited out the Bible, along with being nice to Arabs and not setting people on fire?

One thing I'd change about my life? I'd like an instant heal for my arm. I'd find it a lot easier to face life if I wasn't screaming so much.

[Dinner]

What did you do to your arm?

[molly bloom]

I'll reattach the conjoined twin to my forehead.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
WTMI? Way to myocardial infarction?

Way too much information

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Sava
I'm seeing one therapist who keeps telling me, "just think happy thoughts".

That's what I tell my kids after they have a bad dream. I think a therapist treating an adult with depression should do better than that.

If I could change on choice:
I would have placed more emphasis on my friends during college instead of wasting so much time on my then girlfriend. Now they're all gone - gf and friends.

[laurentius]

One thing?

I would have probably expressed my emotions to the most beautiful girl in the world at the time. I did ask her to run away from home with me to Rome but perhaps it was too vague. GOD what a crush I had on her.

[Elok]

Actually, I'd recommend exercise on a lot of grounds, Sava. Not only for the chance to meet chicks, but to lose the weight, vent some stress, give you the feeling of doing something effectual and rewarding...did I mention that exercise is linked to better mood and self-image in like a bajillion studies, which makes it a better-proven antidepressant than anything chemical?

And regarding the rap thing, good fun or not it's best to be safe. Bad music can have unexpectedly far-reaching effects. In high school one of my classmates was a huge fan of Marilyn Manson; she took on a research project in which she was in charge of one group of mice, and she played her favorite music while she observed them, of course. Her mice KILLED AND ATE EACH OTHER. The control group she had no access to acted like normal, decent mice. See what lousy music does to mammalian brain function?

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Elok
And regarding the rap thing, good fun or not it's best to be safe. Bad music can have unexpectedly far-reaching effects. In high school one of my classmates was a huge fan of Marilyn Manson; she took on a research project in which she was in charge of one group of mice, and she played her favorite music while she observed them, of course. Her mice KILLED AND ATE EACH OTHER. The control group she had no access to acted like normal, decent mice. See what lousy music does to mammalian brain function?

Do you have a reference to that paper, and has it been repeated?

[Al'Kimiya]

I would like a third arm, that would make me special.