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Tickling and depression

I know where you're coming from, Arson. I tend to get the same way (from a 'ler point of view), and as Marie pointed out, it's likely because I know that it's something that makes me happy. Therefore, I'm going to use the thought of tickling to hopefully make myself feel a little better.
 
QueenBeeBeeMari said:
I have tried a million antidepressants they were all SSRIs and none worked at all so,I am done with that.I just can't deal with them anymore.One had me crying nonstop it was awful and I never want to go through that again.

No,I thought it was from anxiety.The neurologist said it was nothing neurological that it was all psychological but I looked up stuff and came across nervous tics and the description and symptoms all fit perfectly.Nothing can cure it.Muscle relaxants can help but I am not going down that route since they are addictive
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Some meds have what are called "paradoxical" effects on some people, which is why amphetamine-like drugs are used to treat hyperactive kids.

As for the tics, I'm glad you've nixed the muscle relaxants, which can dope you up. I'm not sure what natural remedies or supplements would cut it if they aren't Tourette's-based.

gadilici said:
...But yeah, I like Kop's statement about swearing in blood. I had horrific problems with psych meds when I was an early teen. I really didn't need them, I was just introverted and hitting the natural chemical shifts that age brings. but I got them, and it was a very short time before my mom took me off them. And I never saw that quack doctor again. And I never took a psych med again.

Christopher
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National Public Radio had a gutwrenching story about a kid, now in his sixties, who behaved "erraticly" when his parents got divorced (duh!). He was treated with a lobotomy, at the behest of his stepfather if memory serves. This was the mid-1950's and lobotomies were considered (you'll pardon the expression) cutting-edge. The guy who got famous for inventing the procedure (whose name escapes me) was a show-off (he used to do two lobtomies at once in public) and probably hated his charges as most mental health workers of that day did. Whatever's the fad at the time, that's what you use on the kid, right? Oh, the horror stories I could tell you about clueless doctors. Not necessarily incompetent ones, just ones either who learned ONE WAY of doing things and by God, that's how they're going to do them, or willfully ignorant ones who won't pay attention to new developments or confer with other doctors about things. And yes, the quacks, the charlatans who just want to deliver radical results quickly in order to collect a fee. Harried parents are a prime target for them.

Your experience, Chris, points up an unhealthy condition which American society as a whole seems to suffer from - the idea of "normal". (Do normal people like to be tied up and tickled, hmm? Just sayin! 😀) No one's allowed to go through or be guided through dark phases of life, which would make more sense than medication. But that makes no money for Pharma, does it? I can see using medications and such if the situation clearly and unequivocally calls for them. But as far as most Americans are concerned, EVERY situation calls for them, whatever the nice people on the TV tell them to use.
 
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I know I get depressed and I think tickling is a good idea.I know the actress Drew Barrymore trys it as a therapy for her and she feels it works.
I can imagine it would be good therapy for the person who's being tickled.
 
Interesting. I've wondered this as well...

Just a thought, but I'm willing to bet tickling releases dopamine (also released from smoking cigs, eating tasty food, sex, etc) and possibly even serotonin in the brain. I've thought about this before, and find it interesting that y'all have discussed tickling with regards to depression. I'd be really interested to see the incidence of depression amongst us ticklephiles. I've definitely had short-term depression, and grew up with anxiety, which is of the same etiology as depression. Paxil worked for me.

QueenBee... Question for ya. How long were you taking your various antidepressants before you tried others?
 
eric4f33tal said:
Just a thought, but I'm willing to bet tickling releases dopamine (also released from smoking cigs, eating tasty food, sex, etc) and possibly even serotonin in the brain. I've thought about this before, and find it interesting that y'all have discussed tickling with regards to depression. I'd be really interested to see the incidence of depression amongst us ticklephiles. I've definitely had short-term depression, and grew up with anxiety, which is of the same etiology as depression. Paxil worked for me.

QueenBee... Question for ya. How long were you taking your various antidepressants before you tried others?
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They were all tried for different periods of time.I've tried Prozac a million times and it's never worked.Thing is I AM NOT depressed I just have terrible anxiety.I keep trying to tell them this and they refuse to hear me.
 
QueenBeeBeeMari said:
They were all tried for different periods of time.I've tried Prozac a million times and it's never worked.Thing is I AM NOT depressed I just have terrible anxiety.I keep trying to tell them this and they refuse to hear me.
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Hey marie you should take paxil thats what i take for my anxiety and it worked great i mean it really did help me alot.
 
QueenBeeBeeMari said:
I think they tried it already.
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Oh really, because i had worse anxiety when i was 15 like what you have and it helped me alot but it didn't cure me of it i still got it and i try to control if i can buts its hard to control.
 
I guess I expect to much from the medications.I thought it would go completely away with medication.
 
i'd say tickling will help with depression only if you enjoy it. its just like any other thing that would make you happy.
 
QueenBeeBeeMari said:
They were all tried for different periods of time.I've tried Prozac a million times and it's never worked.Thing is I AM NOT depressed I just have terrible anxiety.I keep trying to tell them this and they refuse to hear me.
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I get panic/anxiety attacks too. (Very embarassing condition for a man, btw) There are ways to bring them down without medication. For one, treat the panic itself as a problem; it's not the normal level of reaction to a crisis, it's more like the maximum reaction that's humanly possible. Think of it as an overactive gland or something and not your true emotion.


I recommend an awesome "old-school" book; "How To Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie (the "How to Win Friends" guy from the 30s or 40s) I have the audiobook version. It's really a gigantic help.
 
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