So I’m sitting here reading all this stuff about adolescence and antidepressants & I can’t help hysterically crying. I’m so scared these horrible things will happen when I start taking them.
Someone please assure me my last chance at living a normal life won’t take my life… )’:
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It sounds like you have co-morbid anxiety issues, as well as depression?
Provided you work as closely as you can with your doctor – tell him details about how the drug is effecting you, as well as talking to dr. about any concerns you may have, you should be okay. There are many different antidepressants and not all are made equally – they all have different ways of working, and will make you feel differently. If one doesn’t work, there are others you can try which might provide a better result. Don’t give up 🙂
Hmm…
As someone who has taken psychiatric drugs for 6 years, I personally have found that it numbs the pain and makes me feel more competent, but in reality I feel like I could just as well be drinking. Same effect: It takes my mind off the problems, but that also means I never deal with them.
That said, it’s different for everybody. If you stick to low doses, and only take one drug at a time, anti-depressants shouldn’t be directly dangerous.
However, they can be risky indirectly, because they can lead to complacency and suicidal ideation, etc.
So watch out.
My most important advice: Listen to your heart at all times. Do what feels right for you at that moment.
Take care of yourself. 🙂
P.S. My advice is also based on what I have observed in friends who started taking psychiatric drugs:
Several have put on a lot of weight, which is actually really unhealthy, and doesn’t exactly ease the depression.
People seem to grow more reactionary: I.e. they complain and argue about stuff (I’ve started doing that myself a LOT too), which they would normally just have ignored, or not considered worth the argument.
My impression is that (just like alcohol and illegal drugs), these pills make people very articulate and argumentative, but also very passive when it comes to actually DOING stuff and changing their circumstances.
Personally, I’ve also become endlessly cynical and jaded, where I actually used to be kind of naive and idealistic.
Sorry, this isn’t about me, just to give you my two cents and experiences and maybe make you keep your eyes open if you start using these drugs.
Again, take care. Much love.
Drinking always seems to multiply my problems, although it does help the consequent anxiety from picking random fights and doing otherwise moronic things. Antidepressants always made it easier to handle issues in my life in a more careful, and far less destructive way. I’d give anything to be back on them right now, but I can’t afford the stupid things at the moment. So anger/anxiety/irritation all peak at once and not much else changes.
Read a book called “Unstuck” which has a lot of research about anti depressents, etc, and made me decide never to take them again. It is really revealing about how they test (don’t test) them and how so many studies are just not right.
I was on them before and they did nothing for my being depressed and just gave me strange side effects. If they work why is everyone still depressed? I don’t have an anti depressant shortage, its not like when you don’t have enough vit d and so you take a supplement. They dont even know how they work, other than a really crude understanding of it. Even when they show in illustrations how they work, it is like something a 5 year old drew. They just dont really know all the things they do in the body and brain and how they afftect everything else.
And my doctor said exercise and other non drug methods in studies show as much good as the anti depressants.
I stay a mile away from them. The book i mentioned, it is really interesting. Best wishes. <3
As I said, there are a lot of different kinds of antidepressants, and some work better than others depending on the person. But unfortunately, the anti-psyche movement is more full of shit than the pro-psyche doctors are. They use the same sort of experimental studies when developing psychiatric drugs as they use to create vaccines and antibiotics. They do know how they work by using fCAT surveys to differentiate the changes in neurochemistry between people who aren’t using the drugs, and people who are. On a purely physical level, these drugs are quite easy to understand.
When I was taking them, I wasn’t depressed. I know they work because I’ve seen huge improvements in my life while on them.