Are you on anti depressants?

[bobwhitecrow]

I love the nightie!

Timely thread. I just started taking Lexapro today.

I'd love to see you out of it.

 

[FrenziedMaiden]

200 mg of Sertraline (anti depressant)
50 mg of Rasperidone (anti pyscotic)

I sell knives and guns part-time. Want to come over as a potential customer?

I sure do!

I am not on an anti-depressant at this time, but I did take Prozac at one time. It did me a world of good, and I still sometimes wish I had a perscription for it.

 

[caligula]

No pills here, I would rather feel life.

I lift weights regularly, that is my stress relieve.

 

[Extreme Bohunk]

No.
The Voices told me I don't need to.

 

[littlekateyes]

No, but most days I think I need something.

 

[warrior queen]

i have chronic cyclic depression and PTSD, so i always have a script for anti depressents in my bag.
my psych and i are at the stage where he let's me take care of whether or not i need to take the drugs - and i have been able to control my depression fairly well for over 14 years this way.
i am currently NOT taking the meds, and was last on them in early 2003 for about 7 months.
generally, i need them about 7-8 months in every 2 to 3 years.

 

[The Heretic]

Nope. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be on them, but I think most times I am depressed it is due to normal things and the depression goes away fairly quickly (a few hours to a few days). I find laughter or keeping busy to be better therapy and I fear that anti-depressents would make me way too lax about stuff that I already way too laid back about.

 

[smy3th]

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[Xelebes]

I was prescribed anti-anxiety medication in my grade 12 year and it literally fucked me over having me sent to the hospital with a freak scenario. Grade 12 was a very turmoilous year, I failed many courses during that year and barely passing Calculus IB. For a year after grade 12 I was convinced that I needed to be on some sort of medication to address my anxiety. Though, I soon found out that anti-anxiety medication is worthless if you don't know how to feel what you want to feel. For me it just needed a shift in how I addressed situations including just going out to parties and whatnot and just having fun and relaxing.

 

[The Heretic]

People who think anti-depressants are dumb or over-prescribed, probably aren't depressed.

I have an ex-wife who is a habitual prescription drug abuser - to the point of getting mad at her own daughter because she won't give her mom the leftover pain pills she has (she pulled the same crap with me - even offered to buy them from me), and she abuses anti-depressents too. So yeah, they can be over prescribed.

That said, I know there are people who need them and don't abuse them.

 

[SleepingWarrior]

I have an ex-wife who is a habitual prescription drug abuser - to the point of getting mad at her own daughter because she won't give her mom the leftover pain pills she has (she pulled the same crap with me - even offered to buy them from me), and she abuses anti-depressents too. So yeah, they can be over prescribed.

That said, I know there are people who need them and don't abuse them.

She sounds like someone who should be taking them though. Its sad that she got addicted to them and other pills though.

 

[Xelebes]

I was prescribed anti-anxiety medication in my grade 12 year and it literally fucked me over having me sent to the hospital with a freak scenario. Grade 12 was a very turmoilous year, I failed many courses during that year and barely passing Calculus IB. For a year after grade 12 I was convinced that I needed to be on some sort of medication to address my anxiety. Though, I soon found out that anti-anxiety medication is worthless if you don't know how to feel what you want to feel. For me it just needed a shift in how I addressed situations including just going out to parties and whatnot and just having fun and relaxing.

I forgot to also mention, my brother is on antidepressants because he REALLY needs it or else you'll find him two or three weeks later huddled under a bridge in the river valley. My sister was given antidepressants for a short while but it only drove her to attempt suicide once more. Clearly her "suicidal attempts" prior to the medication were in fact "healthy" forms of masochism - if I can use the word healthy there.

 

[JinXed]

I never have been, though after certain devastating situations in my life I considered requesting them.. but I have a fear of addiction. Or maybe it's a fear of losing control. Either way, I pulled myself up and out of my emotional muck and got past it.

I do think that too many use them as a crutch, because it's the easy answer to our problems sometimes but I also realize that a great many truly need them.

 

[dolf]

never taken them.

i know they work for some but i really hate anything that messes with the way i think and i prefer to try to find the cause for my feeling...getting through a long list there but i've made real steps this last year...though when it's hormonal i just have to put up with it.

 

[Matthew Craig]

though when it's hormonal i just have to put up with it.

Just you?

 

[The Heretic]

She sounds like someone who should be taking them though. Its sad that she got addicted to them and other pills though.

She is someone who shouldn't be on anything except maybe tightly controlled drugs to control her OCD. She has serious issues which were never helped by any of the drugs she has taken - the drugs were a crutch at first because she refused to address her issues, and later they became an addiction that she will not acknowledge. Her own daughter now avoids her and the only people who will tolerate her are her alcoholic and distrubed parents, and her brother who has been a pill head for longer than she has, and is now so far gone he just lays around his house in a stupor.

Fortunately my daughter takes more after me than her mother in this regard - she even has my good looks.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Just curious what percentage of lit members are on anti depressants.

Whether it be for anxiety disorders, depression etc.

Sheesh. Putting me on ignore would solve that problem, cheaper!

 

[dolf]

Just you?

lol, getting better at not reacting with my mood
i guess if anyone gets it it'd be the kids but i usually try to do something when i'm feeling like that {zoo, park, beach}. it cheers me up and removes some pressure from the situation.

 

[Quoll]

What I did before them was eat myself to over 200 pounds, which started many health problems. Lashed out at anyone within hearing range and I hated myself...thank God for Zoloft or any antidepressants that can change a persons life around so that they can once again love them selfs and change their lifes.

Apart from the eating, what marksgirl said, that and nearly destroying a very good marriage.

 

[hogjack]

No, but everyone around me is.

Except for the cats. And my friends on the home-shopping network.

 

[mornin_cutie]

No, not yet. My therapist today told me I should talk to a medical doctor about getting some till my divorce is finalized.

 

[JinXed]

No, not yet. My therapist today told me I should talk to a medical doctor about getting some till my divorce is finalized.

Just a word of warning -

During my divorce, actually during our child custody hearings - I was asked, by several lawyers (his and the guardian ad litem assigned to our son) if I was taking any anti-depressants. Now, I had always thought that was something that couldn't be brought up - naive of me I suppose - but it can be. I'm unsure as to whether it could have been viewed negatively had I been..

 

[uprocessor01]

antidepressants

i'm not on any medication currently , but a couple of years ago several doctors were more than happy to presribe me haldol, lithium, depakote, prozac, zoloft, and a few others. i think most psychiactric doctors are full of bs. While some people may need those drugs for actual reason most do not

 

[mornin_cutie]

Just a word of warning -

During my divorce, actually during our child custody hearings - I was asked, by several lawyers (his and the guardian ad litem assigned to our son) if I was taking any anti-depressants. Now, I had always thought that was something that couldn't be brought up - naive of me I suppose - but it can be. I'm unsure as to whether it could have been viewed negatively had I been..

My ex was just put on them today...So I don't think that will be much of an issue.
But thank you

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

Oliver Clozoff,
You list of 'benign' drugs frightens me. I feel sad for the patient whose general practitioner thinks everything on that has relatively the same drawbacks.

I'm not sure I'm following you, Never. You're worried that GP's can't/don't distinguish between the side effects or risks of these medications? What frightens you about the list? I assume you take issue with my characterization of 2nd generation antidepressants as benign?