I took myself off of my meds without my doctors permission.l didnt like feeling like a zombie. I am used to being sad all of the time and now i cant even be sad at all. The meds are definitely doing its job but i just dont like not being sad. i know that sounds absolutely crazy but its the way i am and the truth. I wonder if my parents will wonder that i am not taking my meds. i wonder what my psychiatrists will think when she finds out. ITs a risk im willing to take. NO MEDS FOREVER!
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While it may seem great to be off meds at first, to be off of your “crutch”, per se, in the long run the effects may be negative. Obviously, they were prescribed for a reason: to fight sadness. And, they seemed to be working, since you said they were.
As for liking the sadness, I can relate, as I’ve been in similar situations where I kind of.. enjoyed it. Nonetheless, positive things aren’t always enjoyable, at first. However, I guarantee in the long run you will be thankful that you had those meds, if you decide to stay on them.
its just so tough. Its liek im addicted to being sad.
i know how you feel being sad is like a addiction i should be taking 75mg of anti depressants but i just do not like taking them being sad is just apart of me now it has never really gone away once it came it was there to stay. you are not alone
not taking meds is so tempting for all sorts of reasons mine is there are so many of them not so much how i feel
They never worked for me.
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I wish I had the guts to do that. I hope to hear more of how it works out. 🙂
everyday i dont take the meds its liek i am getting back to my old self again!! i love it. im getting sadder and sadder and i am actually able to feel. its like i am breaking out of my shell! im so excited to be getting sad. that is so sick but its so true!
I find it pretty awesome that you’re accepting the sadness because you feel what you’re doing is right.
I guess that was my problem the last time I tried:
I expected everything to be peachy, so when I started feeling sad, I started taking the medicine again.
Good luck.
i guess its like a never ending cycle. im just worried that my psychiatrist will send me away because i refuse to take my meds becuase i like being sad.
ive already been sent away for suicidal tendencies but can you be sent away for this?
I dunno if you can be sent away for that? but hopefully if you can, the doctor would just threaten you with it first to give you a chance to go back on the meds, before actually doing it. Are you under age or are you a legal adult? that might play a big part in how much they can do. Oh and I think its pretty cool that you took your self off your meds. At least you tried them and you gave them a chance. Then you looked at the person you were on the meds, and the person you were without the meds, and you chose which you would rather be, thats awesome.
i am a minor im only 17. can you actually have withdrawl from antidepressants? and yes i stopped cold turkey.
You risk going through moderate to severe withdrawal. If psychological issues stopped you before, wait until physiological comes into play.
I believe weaning yourself off meds gradually is better than just stopping all of a sudden.
I think they need reason to believe you’re a danger to yourself or others. I don’t think going off meds necessarily constitutes that.
ok good cuz that is one of my biggest fears.!
well hopefully when you tell your doctor why you went off the meds he will take your feelings into account and try to work with you. Maybe try something else that you might be happier with.
i hope so. i mean i honestly dont think that anthing will help because i like being sad. so its liek taking meds would make me happy or atleast not sad but i will eventually go off of those too because i liek being sad for some weird deranged reason.
Well you kind of get used to anything, being sad is well sad but if you are sad long enough that just becomes normal for you, you get comfortable with your sadness, it kind of just becomes a part of your identity, part of who you are. So then that gets taken away and replaced with just some numb emotionless void and you kind of lose a part of yourself and become someone else, but you don’t want to be someone else you just want to be you.
im so fricken happy right now… its a good thing i went off my meds or i wouldnt be able to feel the feelings i feel for my NEW BOYFRIEND!!i know you saw what i typed. i said new boyfriend!! im so excited. I think because i was feeling ballsy from going off my meds that i would just talk to this guy because i wanted a boyfriend and it just so luckily happns to be the best boyfriend ever and i wouldnt have been able to do it with going off my meds. 🙂
hmm isn’t that a contradiction though, you said you wanted to go off meds because you wanted to feel sad but now being off the meds is making you so fricken happy?! but but you don’t get to be sad like you wanted :P. aww congrats Stacy thats awesome!!! Well make sure you tell your doctor that when you tell him/her about why you don’t want to take your meds right now! The doctor will most certainly be a lot more receptive if you have some really good news to talk about along with the going off the meds.
i know right?!?! its like everything fell into place