I hated my antidepressants, they resulted in me gaining 25 odd pounds and all sorts of other fun and dandy side effects but I felt a lot better and it got me through a seriously bad time. I see them as a temporary or circumstance based tool.
Poll: Antidepressants, do people really want these?
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There are plenty of situations where "depression" is not "feeling bad," but having a lack of physical energy or motivation despite proper eating, sleeping, and exercise habits. Not everyone who takes these medications are trying to avoid suicide.
I wouldn't mind trying them but mainly just out of professional interest... i'm training to be a psych so i feel like trying them to feel how they work... apart from that though, meh? my arrogance ensures that i feel above getting "depressed"
People want them if the benefits outweigh the side effects.
The side effects you describe are common during the initial induction period and will likely wear off within a month if you continue to take them.
They are just medications that affect brain chemistry (or spinal cord chemistry if you are taking them for pain) in a way the benefits some people with certain conditions. Nothing to make a big deal over.
The side effects you describe are common during the initial induction period and will likely wear off within a month if you continue to take them.
They are just medications that affect brain chemistry (or spinal cord chemistry if you are taking them for pain) in a way the benefits some people with certain conditions. Nothing to make a big deal over.
That was not the question of the topic. Last time I checked people was a a word used to point to group of people. Unless you got more than few split personalities.Canid117 said:
probally because people want to feel happy at all costs. I could used them a few years ago maybe I could have finished school earlier that way.
I didn't ask why you would want them, I am very sure I asked why people want them by this I refer to other than you.Canid117 said:
Did you read the OP or did you just have a blink on the poll?
Anti-depressants suck, they suck so much.
They didn't help out with my problem, they just made me feel weird. It was like an unnatural feeling of happiness, and the fact that it wasn't real just ended up pissing me off when it wore out.
I just quit using them. I haven't suffered any ill effects from it.
They didn't help out with my problem, they just made me feel weird. It was like an unnatural feeling of happiness, and the fact that it wasn't real just ended up pissing me off when it wore out.
I just quit using them. I haven't suffered any ill effects from it.
Well sometimes this drug is what is needed, it depends. I never really wanted to use antidepressants and then I fell into clinical depression and that is what I need to use to function correctly. I do not want to use them and look forward to a time when I do not need to use them but for now I need to use them to get better. I have not even had any of the side effects I just do not like medication.
Given how bad the depression was, I was perfectly happy to try anything that would lessen the effects, regardless of any side-effects. Actually, that's not true; the depression was such that I was incapable of offering my own opinion on the matter, and when my GP suggested the medication, I just kind of nodded and went along with it. I can happily take the increased number of migraines and sleep problems when compared to everything that went before.
Seriously, if you told me I was regularly going to be bleeding from every pore in public whilst using the things, it would still be preferable to the mental fugue I'd been in beforehand.
Seriously, if you told me I was regularly going to be bleeding from every pore in public whilst using the things, it would still be preferable to the mental fugue I'd been in beforehand.
You're forgetting that not everybody speaks English. In German, for example, there is a clear difference between being depressed and having depression. So no confusion there.Gxas said:
I see your point though, depression is treated like the sniffles nowadays, the general image is that everybody gets it at some point or another. Many people don't realise that anti-depressants are for people with a real mental disease.
Antidepressants,
controlling tools of your system,
Making life more tolerable,
Making life more tolerable.
My mother is addicted to Xanax. It's a physical addiction, since if she does not take the pills she get headaches and gets dizzy. She had this problem for almost as long as I was alive and since she started swallowing Xanax she stopped feeling like shit all the time. Still, those pills can't be good for her. At least the pills I eat are not addictive (MDMA
).
controlling tools of your system,
Making life more tolerable,
Making life more tolerable.
My mother is addicted to Xanax. It's a physical addiction, since if she does not take the pills she get headaches and gets dizzy. She had this problem for almost as long as I was alive and since she started swallowing Xanax she stopped feeling like shit all the time. Still, those pills can't be good for her. At least the pills I eat are not addictive (MDMA
).
I actually used to think I never needed them. Ever since I started using them, I am no longer feeling down all the time. Just two days ago I got rejected by 2 women on the same day. I was down for only one day and I perked up immidiately after. Before I was on the pills, I can guarantee I would be crying like a child right now. Though I will always fear lonliness, that will never change, but at least I am no longer handicapped by it.
Also to OP, it sounds like your docter is using you like a guinea pig. If you feel unconfortable using the medication, then stop using it! Also unless you signed a contract, she has no right to tell you what you should do and what you shouldn't do, unless she has a logical excuse like your body has to get used to the medication before it takes full effect. If not, then get on something else. Then again, I don't know the laws of your nation. >.> So I am only assuming.
Also to OP, it sounds like your docter is using you like a guinea pig. If you feel unconfortable using the medication, then stop using it! Also unless you signed a contract, she has no right to tell you what you should do and what you shouldn't do, unless she has a logical excuse like your body has to get used to the medication before it takes full effect. If not, then get on something else. Then again, I don't know the laws of your nation. >.> So I am only assuming.
Risk/Reward. Most potent medications have strong side effects and should be proscribed carefully. Though if somebody is suffering from clinical depression then they may save that person's life and are worth headaches and other problems.
It's a good thing there's antidepressants for those who need them. It's not a solution to the problems one may have but actual neverending emotional instability or depression is an illness as real as any other and should natuarally be treated. Of course one can be sceptical to the more casual prescriptions where there are actual real life causes to ones problem where therapy might be more helpfull but that's for the people involved to descide, itäs not a treatment without side-effects.
On the personal side, my emotional state is already pretty flat with outbursts of anxiousness being possible for me to intelectually link to the world around me and therefore deal with so I've never considered anti-depressants as usefull since I'd just suffer the for a healthy person somewhat scary imparements(side-effects).
On the personal side, my emotional state is already pretty flat with outbursts of anxiousness being possible for me to intelectually link to the world around me and therefore deal with so I've never considered anti-depressants as usefull since I'd just suffer the for a healthy person somewhat scary imparements(side-effects).