Advice on Anti-Depressants

[AndyFromMonday]

Have you ever considered taking marijuana in order to treat your depression? It sure as hell helped my friend. No reason why it shouldn't help you.

 

[WolfThomas]

But i speak of Antibiotics on a Daily Basis to Help Prevent sickness and not treatment for sickness.

Well yes, that's stupid, it just breeds antibiotic resistance.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Have you ever considered taking marijuana in order to treat your depression? It sure as hell helped my friend. No reason why it shouldn't help you.

Because people don't all react the same to marijuana and if they're one of the people that THC triggers a paranoid/depressive cycle that's the last thing someone suffering with depression needs.

 

[justnotcricket]

Have you ever considered taking marijuana in order to treat your depression? It sure as hell helped my friend. No reason why it shouldn't help you.

Because people don't all react the same to marijuana and if they're one of the people that THC triggers a paranoid/depressive cycle that's the last thing someone suffering with depression needs.

Also smoking anything = not the best for your health generally. I mean, if that's the only thing that works.. but still, I'd try to seek other alternatives. Even if they are just to help in conjunction with the meds. Someday you might want to come off the drugs, and if you do you're going to want some good habits in place for continuing to stabilise your moods and keep you smiling =)

Perhaps going far away to college won't be such a bad thing? I know being in a new environment away from the familiar can be intimidating, but it's also a fresh place and a fresh start where you can get away from circumstances that are holding you back. As for your ex/friend, then if you have a solid friendship you'll be able to maintain it no problems, and it might be healthy to get some space between you and an ex you're clearly not over. Sometimes that friendship that you develop after a relationship can be a very destructive thing, no matter how good both of your intentions are - it prevents old wounds from healing because the presence of the person you love is always there, reopening them.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Have you ever considered taking marijuana in order to treat your depression? It sure as hell helped my friend. No reason why it shouldn't help you.

Because people don't all react the same to marijuana and if they're one of the people that THC triggers a paranoid/depressive cycle that's the last thing someone suffering with depression needs.

We don't know that.

Also smoking anything = not the best for your health generally.

I never suggested smoking. There are other way to use marijuana that do not require the smoking of tobacco.

but still, I'd try to seek other alternatives.

Don't anti depressants have certain side effects that marijuana does not posses?

Someday you might want to come off the drugs, and if you do you're going to want some good habits in place for continuing to stabilise your moods and keep you smiling =)

The same can be said about anti depressants.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

They vary between person to person. When I first taking my anti depressants; for the first week I felt tired, woozy, felt like you might want to throw up, dehydrated a lot and mood swings.

But as mentioned your doctor will prescribe a low dose before going for the heavy and he/she will know what one to prescribe to you.

 

[WolfThomas]

Exactly. It just weakens your immune system if anything.

I would have to look into medical literature to respond to that statement, while it's true some drugs (e.g. steroids) can cause degrees of immunosuppression, I'm pretty sure that is not the case with antibiotics. The main concern about unnessecary antibiotics use is not that it makes you weaker, it make bacteria more resistant. Kill off 99% of bacteria and that 1% comes back stronger and in greater numbers.

Once again I see no reason why anyone should just be taking antibiotics just for the sake of it. We seem to have come waaaay off topic. Anti depressant use =/= antibiotic use in similarity.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Ask. your. doctor. Seriously.

The only person prescribing anti-depressants should be your doctor and he/she knows what's best. Don't ask people on a random game forum about vital health information.

And because this stinks of possible trolling: Don't make fun of people who take anti-depressants, its a serious medical condition.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I know for a fact millions have it worse than I do. Still in love with ex who loves another, can't get hired by any job anywhere (and I've searched for three years), have no money for anything, and really low self esteem, and I have no doubt that I will end up a bum with no family of my own. >_<

Had that myself. Went on Beta Blockers. Left me numb for a bit and then towering with rage afterwards. Pills don't help. (Though PEELZ might )

First of all, get well rid of the ex. Second, get a job, ANY job. Third, get out of the house and do something valuable.

Life does get better, but those periods are just shitty and need to be worked through.

This

I know for a fact millions have it worse than I do.

proves you will get through it.

Good luck.

 

[The Man With the Soap]

Don't get drugged!

 

[zombiesinc]

Keep in mind that these pills won't make you happy, they'll numb you. They're meant to make it easier for you to make the changes necessary to get yourself in a position where you can be happy with your life and who you are.

 

[justnotcricket]

Have you ever considered taking marijuana in order to treat your depression? It sure as hell helped my friend. No reason why it shouldn't help you.

Because people don't all react the same to marijuana and if they're one of the people that THC triggers a paranoid/depressive cycle that's the last thing someone suffering with depression needs.

We don't know that.

Also smoking anything = not the best for your health generally.

I never suggested smoking. There are other way to use marijuana that do not require the smoking of tobacco.

but still, I'd try to seek other alternatives.

Don't anti depressants have certain side effects that marijuana does not posses?

Someday you might want to come off the drugs, and if you do you're going to want some good habits in place for continuing to stabilise your moods and keep you smiling =)

The same can be said about anti depressants.

I love it when people selectively quote me. The next line in my post says: 'I'd try to seek other alternatives. Even if they are just to help in conjunction with the meds. By 'meds' I refer to whatever chemical means you're using to help manage your depression - whether that be marijuana or prescription medication.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Have you ever considered taking marijuana in order to treat your depression? It sure as hell helped my friend. No reason why it shouldn't help you.

Because people don't all react the same to marijuana and if they're one of the people that THC triggers a paranoid/depressive cycle that's the last thing someone suffering with depression needs.

We don't know that.

We also don't know why it helped your friend, do we? Nor how the OP reacts to THC.

Annecdotal evidence from my circle of friends over the past 20 or so years, OTOH, would suggest to me that individual responses to THC and its interaction with depression are not uniform and can range from zero effect besides getting wasted, to chilling about things, to an increase in symptom severity.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Solve that, and you won't need medication.

Unless the depression is caused by an uncorrectable chemical imbalance.

 

[FalloutJack]

To be fair, I'm not a fan of anti-depressant drugs at all. I've never been able to quite understand what actually causes you to be depressed in a manner of brain chemistry and not your emotions, essentially forcing you to be depressed for no reason. It doesn't make real sense to me, and even if you DID make it make sense to me, why doesn't the 'cure' just flush you back to normal and not all manner of possible weirdness.

 

[SimuLord]

Personally I feel those happy pills don't really solve anything and cause way more hell than they'll ever solve. Just for starters you'll end up dependent on the damned things just to function in society. Then they wreck any chance of getting into the military or police. Probably other careers too. Then there's the very common effect of them actually making it worse before they kick in proper. I have a friend I'm trying to break of these things, so that's just what I've noticed first-hand/read off his pill bottles.


It's kinda like a car with a loud knocking sound. The pills simply tape over the CEL and turn the radio up. No more symptoms? Problem must be fixed. Then the engine explodes.

I feel the only way to fix depression is to fix whatever is making you depressed in the first place, not screwing with a chemical balance we know very little about. I vote you not get the pills at all, instead try to find out why you are depressed and act on that instead.

Speaking as a shell-shocked veteran of the "treatment" process (fuck you, Mom!), I agree 9001% with this advice. Anti-depressants are just legal versions of the illegal drugs and alcohol that people otherwise turn to in order to alleviate the pain of a broken life. In the words of Chris Rock, "The government doesn't want you to take YOUR drugs. They want you to take THEIR drugs so the drug companies can make money off you."

I know it seems like psychology offers an irresistible answer, especially if you've struggled for a long time with depression. But all the drugs do is turn you into a socially acceptable addict.

Speaking as someone who conquered depression with some freelance cognitive behavioral therapy (shouting at myself in my R. Lee Ermey voice in front of a mirror every morning for the better part of a year), I can tell you---drugs paper over. Determination changes. And real change is better than fake change.