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Anti-depressants
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Leo tickles
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No amount of pills will substitute what you can do for yourself.
Take something ugly, turn it into something beautiful, even if it is just a goal, achieve, live.
Take something ugly, turn it into something beautiful, even if it is just a goal, achieve, live.
I definately appreciate the advice and agree 100%.Sometimes it is just a little beyond that though.....
Leo tickles
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No it isn't.
When somebody tells you it is for any reason (including chemical imbalances), that just adds to your brain that you can't do it because of __. Ignore them, know that YOU can.
As long as you know what you have, nobody else needs to.
When somebody tells you it is for any reason (including chemical imbalances), that just adds to your brain that you can't do it because of __. Ignore them, know that YOU can.
As long as you know what you have, nobody else needs to.
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I swear I read that in a fortune cookie back in '92.
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I was 3 years old in '92. So either I sit all day and look up quotes from fortune cookies, or I use the common sense that people never find in themselves.
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Yes, I have been on Celexa for many years. And things have been much better in the eight years or so since I have been taking it than before.
I can, for the first time, enjoy a lovely day for the simple reason that it's a lovely day. And that's something that simply would not have happened in the decades before I took a chance to try and turn things around.
It's simply a way to help balance some things out. And that is not a bad thing even though there is a perception "out there" that people who are using such things are looking for a crutch of sorts.
If you feel you need some help, then do it. You are not weak for wanting to get some help.
I can, for the first time, enjoy a lovely day for the simple reason that it's a lovely day. And that's something that simply would not have happened in the decades before I took a chance to try and turn things around.
It's simply a way to help balance some things out. And that is not a bad thing even though there is a perception "out there" that people who are using such things are looking for a crutch of sorts.
If you feel you need some help, then do it. You are not weak for wanting to get some help.
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If taken correctly, antidepressants can make u feel better. When u feel better, u look at the world with a different outlook. Things don't seem so bad............or at least if they do, u can handle it with a clearer head. Good luck.
If taken correctly, antidepressants can make u feel better. When u feel better, u look at the world with a different outlook. Things don't seem so bad............or at least if they do, u can handle it with a clearer head. Good luck.
Mixed emotions~as one from a family of pharmaceutical hating "realists", they considered them BS, a mask for what's really wrong with you. As a medical professional, I used them myself for a time with great results. But. Is it like a lot of things~they work, they have power because you beleive they do? 
At any rate, if your doctor is worth a rat's, they know they'll need to play with the dosage most likely to find one that works for you~don't give up. NO good doctor will prescribe drugs without a therapy program as well. If you're truly depressed, I apologize, but there's no fast tracking your way thru this one. It probably took you years to get here, getting out will probably do the same...
XOXO
At any rate, if your doctor is worth a rat's, they know they'll need to play with the dosage most likely to find one that works for you~don't give up. NO good doctor will prescribe drugs without a therapy program as well. If you're truly depressed, I apologize, but there's no fast tracking your way thru this one. It probably took you years to get here, getting out will probably do the same...
XOXO
Anybody here on or have been on anti-depressants?If so,what is your view on them?
Yes doctor Phil.
I used to be a scientologist, so I was pumped full of anti-psychiatry anti-drug rhetoric when I was a kid. Moving past that crap, I realize these drugs do help folks. They need to want to help themselves, but if you honestly don't think they don't work then you have never met a critically depressed person. Drugs aren't a substitute, but it's an aid. When you've been in the shit and you can't claw your way out of it then goddamit you want all the help you can fucking get.
Honestly, until you've had to pull a M4 rifle out of someones mouth I don't want to hear shit otherwise.
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If I was fighting a useless war, I'd be pulling M4's out of people's mouths, too.
I've met and helped critically depressed people who were on the brink of suicide. And I didn't do it with any drugs, so there goes that theory. Until YOU do that, I don't want to hear shit otherwise.
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Anybody here on or have been on anti-depressants?If so,what is your view on them?
My view is that I think that they are very helpful for those who really need them, but I also think that a lot of people think that they are a quick fix for whatever, and since they feel "sad", "depressed", that these medications will fix everything. You need to diagnosed by a doctor, find the appropriate medication and dosage for you (which is not easy and a lot of the time can take a long time). I was diagnosed as clinically depressed over 9 years ago, and have been on a variety of different medications over the years, until finally finding something that worked for me. Unfortunately, over the years I also found myself feeling better (a false feeling), so I discontinued the medications on my own, only to end up back where I started or worse off from where I started. So basically, I think that anti-depressants can work wonders for people who are properly diagnosed, and when the right dosage and medication is found.
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though i am not for behavior modifying drugs, i'm not totally against them. for your average Joe, something like a new hobby, or even just a group session, seems more practical. however, for those that are just in a whole 'nother world, those drugs are often necessary. the problem, in my opinion, it that these drugs often need other prescriptions to counter-balance things, and more drugs to stave off the more serious side-effects.
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I'm on Lithium tablets (Which I think is a strong form of anti depressants) Cause of my Bipolar, I have to be on them. As if I wasen't on enough medication already. =(
Leo as much as i respect your opinions etc....i'm afraid you are wrong here...i hate medications of all sorts...however three years ago, after my mother died of starvation..due to refusing her shock therapy and her behavioral medicines, i went into a severe depression myself..for the first time in my life, i wasn't in control of my mind...and believe me, i lay on that couch and thought all the common sense i could think...and nothing got me off that couch..each and every day i tried to talk myself out of the depression..for three weeks...finally at my husband's insistance, and due to the fact i wanted help myself...i got that help...and yes i had therapy, but i also was given paxil...which i'm still on..there are times when meds are needed... for schizophrenia...for bi polar..these things cannot be talked out of...
i admire the fact you can talk people out of suicide etc...wish i had known you three years ago...maybe you could have talked some common sense into my mother...that would have proved interesting, as she wouldn't even talk to me..
i admire the fact you can talk people out of suicide etc...wish i had known you three years ago...maybe you could have talked some common sense into my mother...that would have proved interesting, as she wouldn't even talk to me..
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Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of sweeping over-simplification...But to each their own.
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Y'all don't have to agree with me. The OP asked for an opinion and I delivered one. In the end, it's what works for you, and what doesn't. What works from me may be (and usually is) what works for other people.
Oh, and before taking my advice, IF you plan to, also keep in mind there is a very fine line between helping yourself, and creating an illusion.
Oh, and before taking my advice, IF you plan to, also keep in mind there is a very fine line between helping yourself, and creating an illusion.
Yeah, I have to disagree with Leo on this one too.
I come from a long line of people with mental health issues (big surprise there, huh?). My mom is bipolar, codependent, and all kinds of other things. If she doesn't take the witch's brew of medication she's prescribed, (welbutrin xl, cymbalta, xanax, etc. ) she becomes very abusive to the people around her and has violent mood swings.
I'm on a very low dose of prozac due to my anxiety issues (hmm...wonder where I got them) which maintains a healthy level of seratonin in my brain so that I don't freak out at every sudden noise or spend all day with a feeling of fear in my stomach for no reason.
I can understand where Leo is coming from, and normally prefer to do things myself, but when you're waking up every morning and vomiting from anxiety, or you can't function like a normal person because you have a chemical imbalance, you need to get some help.
Telling someone to basically "Suck it up, cupcake," just doesn't always work.
I come from a long line of people with mental health issues (big surprise there, huh?). My mom is bipolar, codependent, and all kinds of other things. If she doesn't take the witch's brew of medication she's prescribed, (welbutrin xl, cymbalta, xanax, etc. ) she becomes very abusive to the people around her and has violent mood swings.
I'm on a very low dose of prozac due to my anxiety issues (hmm...wonder where I got them) which maintains a healthy level of seratonin in my brain so that I don't freak out at every sudden noise or spend all day with a feeling of fear in my stomach for no reason.
I can understand where Leo is coming from, and normally prefer to do things myself, but when you're waking up every morning and vomiting from anxiety, or you can't function like a normal person because you have a chemical imbalance, you need to get some help.
Telling someone to basically "Suck it up, cupcake," just doesn't always work.
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I can say that anti-depressants do work because I am on one called effexor. A couple of years ago my grandmother died and I was extremely close to her. Then a couple moths later my best friend died from a heart attack and he was only 22. Now my parents are getting a divorce and my sisters were taken from home by the goverment because they are afraid of their dad, and my mother has been in the hospital for the past few months and most likely won't be home for thanksgiving. Now tell me I don't need an anti-deppressant!!!
