Who here is on anti-depressants?

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I've been on Paxil for almost a week now and I gotta say I'm glad I finally decided to. The first 5 days were awful, right from the first pill I felt SOoooooooooo tense on it; even causing me to clench my teeth. But my body's finally adjusted and my mood is actually relatively stable for the first time in a long time. Coupled with some painkillers that actually work, I actually feel like a human being!

So I'm just wondering who else is/was on anti-depressants, how your experiences with them were. Did you find them effective? I'm hoping my body won't get used to the paxil and have it stop working, it's nice to not be mentally tormenting myself with cyclical thoughts that can last for weeks at a time.

[Infamous]

I'm supposed to be on Fluexotine (Prozac) but I stopped after about 2 months. It didnt do anything for me...... I moved onto pills of a different nature and got a lot happier.

[StickyfingahZ]

I was on Effexor XR...up until a week or two ago.I was taking some fat burners and excercising in the mornings and I started taking the Effexor XR that the doctor gave me,I could not stop sweating or moving and found myself gritting my teeth.Sweat was just dripping off my nose and chin,even if I was just watching TV.No one told me,but I guess your not supposed to mix anti depressents with fat burners.
I also used Wellbutrin for about 6 months....It didnt do anything for me,and then I was given Cymbalta,and again nothing.
After I got my Medical MJ card,Im cool as a fan.....havent taken my meds since I started using weed.

[GrinS]

I think (majority) more and more people are turning to anti-depressants when they are feeling down and just refuse to help themselves so they just turn to a pill to fix the problem. 2 out of my 5 closest family members are/were on anti-depressants and not only did I think they shouldn't be on them, but it actually made a situation A LOT worse (suicide) then before (depressed).

People have to start getting some self control. Maybe start actually having a backbone and fix there problems themselves.

I know I am get a lot of heat for this, but when I feel down, I know its just a mind set, and a good 8 hours later will be a new day, new attitude, and a new adventure.

[Weedhound]

I take Prozac and have for about 12 years.....there was a point where I went off them and sunk right back into depression. I can even tell if I haven't taken them that day.....the self-demorilization and guilty, depressing thoughts (I didn't even DO anything and still feel guilty for something....) come right back.

Maybe at some point......some day.... I won't need my meds but as long as I do I will take them HAPPILY. It seems utterly ridiculous to me to live in such a horrible, unhappy, wondering "if I die would I finally not feel so damn exhausted, lonely and apathetic" way.

And why....to prove I'm a PURE human being or something......what a joke. :wtf:

[Weedhound]

Hey and put Prozac (fluoxetene) in your poll. It was the first SSRI....and a true miracle drug imo. ;)

Ps....Gandalf....if you haven't read a book called "Listening to Prozac" you should.....it's excellent and I firmly believe it's info covers all of the SSRI anti-depressents.....although it was written when there was still just Prozac.

[Infamous]

I think (majority) more and more people are turning to anti-depressants when they are feeling down and just refuse to help themselves so they just turn to a pill to fix the problem. 2 out of my 5 closest family members are/were on anti-depressants and not only did I think they shouldn't be on them, but it actually made a situation A LOT worse (suicide) then before (depressed).

People have to start getting some self control. Maybe start actually having a backbone and fix there problems themselves.

I know I am get a lot of heat for this, but when I feel down, I know its just a mind set, and a good 8 hours later will be a new day, new attitude, and a new adventure.

Well, thats what differentiates being normal and being depressed, you are basically saying that a lot of people on these drugs were feeling low for a few hours and thought they were depressed. Do you think a doctor would prescribe such drugs to someone who'd had a bad day? MOST depressed people feel so shit they can't even help themselves and end up leaving it months before they seek treatment. To be honest you cant really say much on the subject until you've gone through it personally.

[Weedhound]

Infamous.....don't even bother......the guy has no clue.....seriously. He speaks from complete ignorance. It's those types that certainly are NOT worth my energy.

[StickyfingahZ]

I think (majority) more and more people are turning to anti-depressants when they are feeling down and just refuse to help themselves so they just turn to a pill to fix the problem. 2 out of my 5 closest family members are/were on anti-depressants and not only did I think they shouldn't be on them, but it actually made a situation A LOT worse (suicide) then before (depressed).

People have to start getting some self control. Maybe start actually having a backbone and fix there problems themselves.

I know I am get a lot of heat for this, but when I feel down, I know its just a mind set, and a good 8 hours later will be a new day, new attitude, and a new adventure.

You sound just like my dad when the subject turns to Marijuana,my dad says stuff like that,"people need to get some self controll and realise they dont need marijuana or any drugs to feel good" My dad is the king of Tolerance,He doesnt even take numbing shots when at the dentist.

But not everyone has the same strengths or the same life as everyone else.
For me I didnt just walk into the doctors office and say "I'm depressed help me" My doctor suggested I take them when I was talking to him about not being able to sleep and when I did I was having these "CRAZY" dreams.After answering some questions,I found out I was depressed.

Hey,maybe its the Doctors,maybe their in cahoots with the pharmaceutical companies.;)

[Infamous]

Infamous.....don't even bother......the guy has no clue.....seriously. He speaks from complete ignorance. It's those types that certainly are NOT worth my energy.

I see your point :thumbsup:

Its just that i've heard all these people who have no idea what its like commenting on how weak the sufferers are. If only they knew how difficult it is to get out of depression - it can be a vicious cycle that some people never manage to escape, I know this from first hand experience. But to be honest I don't care if i have no backbone as long as i've still got my front bone :stoned:

[sociobud]

I've been on and off antidepressants for about 10 years now, and I can honestly say, I am much better ON. I agree with weedhound, why be miserable when you can be happy. Saying that, I also think more and more people are being prescribed antidepressants incorrectly. It's the new "wonder drug." My mom is on Zoloft. She doesn't need to be, she's just in a bad marriage.

Secondly, I want to note that, even though I didn't believe this at first, Zoloft can make someone "high." When I take it, I can seriously "feel" the drug start to work. Its like a stimulate to me. Gives me so much energy, I literally bounce of walls. I personally like the feeling, so I don't complain. Then again, it could be just "working" and not making me "high." Either way, who cares!

[SFGurrilla]

I just smoke

[scagster]

Back in high school, my parents forced me to take Paxil and pretty much every ADHD med. In college I took lexapro for a while. That shit has HORRIBLE withdrawl, was giving me ridiculous eye tics and tremors, so I weaned myself off it, and have been happy ever since. Plus.....it doesn't help the sex life at ALL.

[zebulon]

anti-depressants?...i only take some good'ol Mj....

[daihashi]

I've been on Zoloft before for depression. Honestly I am probably always going to be depressed however it's not as bad as other people have it. I've since gotten off the Zoloft and just lift weights and I have an extremely strict diet.

I quit smoking (cigarettes) and made sure I didn't drink so much (alcohol are... dun dun dun depressants.).

With all that I feel somewhat normal. Alot of my depression stems from my feeling of self worth and my self image.

Since I started exercising and dieting I felt ALOT better from myself. I started getting alot more attention around people. Also a lot of my natural personality started to come out. Now where ever I go I'm pretty much the center of attention. Everyone always thinks I'm a stand up comedian or at least an amateur. I have all kinds of girls that are interested in me for multiple reasons and I overall feel decent, but I still feel the monster lurking in the back of my head(literally, I can tell that the depression is still there. All I'm doing is simply keeping it in check.)

I guess what I'm saying is that if your depression, social anxiety or whatever the issue is that you need SSRI's for is not extreme it may be managable (at least in my case it was).

However there are defintely others who can't manage it without the medication. It's there for a reason and we should not be afraid to utilize it if necessary.

Another benefit of SSRI's is that if you're a guy you have so much more control in bed if you know what I mean. :thumbsup: If you think you have good stamina control now (I did) then you'll be amazed at your god like performance when taking it. :smokin:

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Infamous, I actually understand why you feel this way considering how over-prescribed so many drugs are these days. But, taking one extreme to reject another is not the answer; there are those who have serious neuro-chemical problems, prolonged stressors like abuse or chronic pain, and sometimes both. The body has a billion different ways to malfunction after all, why shouldn't seratonin (or in less common cases dopamine) defiencies by one of them?
The only reason I'm on Paxil right now is after 6 years of chronic pain, isolation, and many other stressors. For those 6 years I fought tooth and nail to prove that I could overcome these problems myself. Eventually, though, those problems caught up with me and I was damn near suicidal; just overal exhausted from life. There comes a point where a person just doesn't have the energy any more.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Oh on another note, my social anxiety disorder seems to be cured for the time being. Usually when people come over, some friend of someone in the family, I'll hide in my room downstairs and pray that I don't get forced into a social situation. But yesterday my mom had a friend over and I was the life of the party; she even said what a remarkable change she saw in me.



but I still feel the monster lurking in the back of my head(literally, I can tell that the depression is still there. All I'm doing is simply keeping it in check.)

I know what you mean daihashi, I think most people still have it lingering somewhere back there. Drugs of any sorts, in my experience cover up the problem but don't cure it deep down. But they can bring some needed relief, and in my case provide the energy to tackle these problems and keep moving with my life, rather than hide from them in exhaustion.

[Weedhound]

Funny how nobody every calls diabetics who use insulin "weak". Obviously they are however .....REAL people don't need that kind of crap.....they just THINK their glucose level down to normal. :wtf:

[angry nomad]

I use marijuana for depression. It works for me.

[happiestmferoutthere]

I use marijuana for depression. It works for me.
Ditto. :thumbsup:

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I actually would have added marijuana and prozac in the pole, but it's limited to 10 options.

[Nochowderforyou]

Yes, I do take anti-depressants. Do I like them? No, I fucking hate them, but without them, I can be a harm to myself and the public. I'd be dead or in jail without them, so I tolerate it and have accepted it as something I need.

To me, there are a few kinds of a depression. Chemical imbalance depression, and trauma depression. Trauma depression I think is can be related to abusive childhoods, parents/friends/relatives dying, being a teenager ;) and etc...those, to me, are a temporary solution. Do what you have to do to get through it, but that isn't something they will need forever.

Now, what I have is a chemical imbalance, along with others as well. I have a lack of seretonin flow in my brain. It is completly out of hands and there isn't a switch or any amount of talking, or cannabis, that will help me. I have to take these pills and I have accepted that, and if people don't understand, there is a saying, "the inexperienced are always the most ignorant" and that's a saying for a reason. ;)

I take Effexor, 75mg, the lowest dose. At first, it made me short tempered, and the doc. warned me that it will feel like a drank a bottle of rye (not impaired, but rage-ahol) without anything else to balance it out. Me, being stubborn, said no, and he gave it to me anyways...a few weeks later I had to go on an extremely low dose of Zyprexa to balance me out.

Since then I have felt great, so there. :)

[naturelovinpuffer]

I am on anti-depressants, and I do not feel that taking them makes me any less of a person than all you others who don't have the chemical imbalance in their brain, there is WAY more to it than just thinking about happy things and doing things for yourself to make yourself happy. Yes it may make you feel better but you can not control the chemical imbalances in your brain. You can't just say man i am tired i am in need of some endorphins to wake up up and your brain just triggers the release of that neurotransmitter. There is more to it than just that i.e why people take anti-depressants to balance out the chemical imbalance in the brain. Not saying that anti-depressants can be dangerous. But that may be because they are on the wrong type of anti-depressant or getting the wrong drug in their body causing a overdose to the brain which can cause the suisidal thoughts.

_Story time_
I have a friend and their sibiling was on anti-depressants but he was also drinking a heavy amount of alcohol. Now from what I learned Alcohol is considarad a downer drug. Which brings me to why we should not drink alcohol while on anti-depressants. because you are trying to fill your brain and body with the neurotransmitters that you need then the neurotransmitters in your brain are getting broken down by the alcohol. So that is when anti-depressants become dangerous.

PLEASE don't believe that everyone can get though their depression without drugs, because god for bid it could be genetic . . .you can't change genetics.

ok i have finally put my view in on that

*nature

[Weedhound]

No chowder and Nature.....THANK YOU BOTH.....you guys said it the best!! :thumbsup:

[Chong Version 2.0]

I've been depressed since I was 14. I am now 26. I've gone through some shit that nobody should have to. I did take effexor for a couple of years but the side effects were too much for me. I am on cipralex right now and its not bad, sorta smooths things out. I also am bipolar and have social anxiety disorder.

I love it when people think you are just emo or a lazy ass or something. It is a brain chemistry problem and a disease. :mad:

Weed seems to help me more than anything else. It is helping me to fight my alcohol problem that I have had since I was 17. Things are slowly getting better. :)

[naturelovinpuffer]

Thanks!! I just had to put people in their place about it because their is a differernt view from different people on anti-depressants.

I myself have been on like four or five different, I had a situation where I had a really bad panic attack and the doctor put me on Paxil and then gave me a perscription for xanix. I tell you i dont like the way paxil makes me feel- another reason why people commit suiside, they are on the wrong anti-depressant. I am now again on fluoxetine 20 mg.

When I was on paxil i got funny feelings throughout my body i didnt like and it was making me really tired and I was on 40 mg of that. I changed and I am better now, I know that i can not really function without them. I guess you could say I am getting out of my lowest point of the depression. I have been taking them since I was 15 years old. So 5 years. I have charged my meds a few times but that is just because it wasn't the right medication for me. Not doing what I needed it to do. So i chagned and things are really starting to look up.

*Nature

[naturelovinpuffer]

Congrats chong

I almost feel that I know what you feel. Thank you for staing that it is a brain chemistry problem and also a disease. just like addiction. its a disease.

Good things are slowly gettin better for you, same for me. Smoke a bowl for celebration!

[GrinS]

Well, thats what differentiates being normal and being depressed, you are basically saying that a lot of people on these drugs were feeling low for a few hours and thought they were depressed. Do you think a doctor would prescribe such drugs to someone who'd had a bad day? MOST depressed people feel so shit they can't even help themselves and end up leaving it months before they seek treatment. To be honest you cant really say much on the subject until you've gone through it personally.

Really Infamous? You know me on a personal level? You know that I have or haven't been depressed before? Thats amazing that you can see what I've been through my whole life by reading 2 paragraphs of text on what "I" think about depressants and my experience with them.

I have been depressed, I went through a few months of my life wanting to do nothing but stay in bed cause it seemed like my life was over and everything I once loved was just a blur. I did NOT take any depressants, and stepped back, looked at the bigger picture and decided that life is really not worth the time to be sad.


Infamous.....don't even bother......the guy has no clue.....seriously. He speaks from complete ignorance. It's those types that certainly are NOT worth my energy.

I'm pretty sure calling it out like that is actually hypocritical cause its actually ignorance on your part to say that.

for example: Lets just make up a story to compare: Lets stay I say "the holocaust never happened" and give a few "reasons" that I might think that.

and the next person that replays says. "Infamous.....don't even bother......the guy has no clue.....seriously. He speaks from complete ignorance. It's those types that certainly are NOT worth my energy."

Is it ignorant to say that without giving any types of facts or reason to rebuttal my argument.


I see your point :thumbsup:

Its just that i've heard all these people who have no idea what its like commenting on how weak the sufferers are. If only they knew how difficult it is to get out of depression - it can be a vicious cycle that some people never manage to escape, I know this from first hand experience. But to be honest I don't care if i have no backbone as long as i've still got my front bone :stoned:

How can I have no idea how hard it is to get out of depression when I said that 2 of my CLOSEST family are/were depressed. I don't know about you, but living with someone with depression CAN actually make yourself depressed, cause whatever YOU as a person do, nothing can change or help them unless its themselves.

Its quite funny, that from what I read, it sounded like I didn't give any reason why I think ALOT of people are on anti depressants and they shouldn't be.

I said that the 2 people that I know are on or were on them, not only did it NOT help them, in one case, IT MADE the depression worse than what it was BEFORE the meds.

EXAMPLE: My bro, he has OCD, hes depressed all the time, he was on one med that was doing wonders for him, he decided it was time to get off it. He got off, he was doing fine(from his words) he was working, school, friends, he was living life like what it should be lived for. He went to see his doc about loss of appitite, and poor sleep, but other than that his mental status was great. THE DOC gave him a type of anti depressant that would help him sleep and eat, 1 week later he tryed to kill himself. out of no where, he fine at night, and the next morning, I walk into his room where I step into a pool of his blood and then proceed to fight him for 20 mins until the cops came to detain him cause for those 20 mins, he was beating the fuck outta me trying to get to anything that would be sharp enough to stab through his temple.

4 days later he was off the depressants and was a totally different person, for the better side.

[Weedhound]

Grins,

There is quite simply one thing to say to you: Don't talk shit about things you don't know anything about. This post is ALL you are worth to me.....your ignorance of the subject is obvious and I wasted WAY too many times giving people with your view too much thought and energy as it is.......to my own detriment. I'm sorry your brother had a bad experience for WHATEVER reason but I'd certainly like to hear a LITTLE BIT more than YOUR version of events before deciding what happened there and why.

I have a friend who is allergic to penicillin. Therefore all antibiotics suck and ruin peoples lives. They should just step back, look at the bigger picture and THINK away that infection. That's how much sense your argument makes to me.

If there IS one thing I have learned....it's that I can spend a TON of time trying to entertain you.....or I can take that same energy and live my life.

Bye.

[8182KSKUSH]

I have had some mental/depression problems for as long as I can remember. Growing up my mother was diagnosed as "clinically depressed" what ever the hell that means. Basically she is awesome now and after years of experimenting has found something that works. I grew up with the attitude that it was all in her head and that she could controll it, but now I know better. I am 27, and have moved out here to Cali so I could use my medicine without ....as much fear of incarceration and losing my family. I have never tried the regular scrips, obvoiusly they probably work for most people. It's just that by the time I was 18 I had already found what worked well for me. Not to mention that there is no way that I could make my own prozac, where as the medicine that I use is relatively cheap, little to know side effects, and I can produce it on my own! No wonder they don't want to legalize, if everyone were to do this there would not be any money in it. Brass tax of the issue, mmj is my anti-depressant!
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKA!

[scagster]

Weedhound,

Not trying to start any beef with you, I like reading your posts and seeing your grows, you obviously are a good person, but I can't help but feel a little offended by your posts in this thread. I totally agree antidepressants are very helpful for some people, and that chemical imbalances do exist. I don't see how Grins was saying anything offensive directed at you, or anyone in general. In fact I think he was right that a lot of people are being overmedicated. Not EVERYONE. Of course people really need medication and it makes a big difference for them. If this guy offended you in some other thread or something, that would make sense, but it seems like he's just giving his thoughts, and you really are out to get him.

I have a resentment towards medication because when I was 16, my parents forced my to start taking Paxil because they thought I was depressed. Actually my behaviour was from being dumped by my girlfriend at the time. After I started taking the Paxil, I got sleeping problems, couldn't focus in school and started failing my classes, became depressed, and tried to kill myself. Then I did an involuntary stint in the mental hospital.

I understand that you need your medicine, and I believe you, I know a lot of people who can't be normal, functional people without their meds. They definitely can be a positive and important part in your life. But prescription meds can fuck up your life, and they definitely did it to me, so don't jump all over everyone. I'm glad they work for you, they certainly didn't for me. I feel like I was used as a guinea pig in my teens, but no hard feelings, my parents and the doctors didn't know any better at the time.

Now here's to us all getting along! :jointsmile: We all can agree on one type of medicine...

[Weedhound]

The difference between you and Grins is the blanket statement of deciding what's best for everyone.....without having been there yourself. I DO take quite a BIT of offense from someone who...without having been there......tells me how to deal with something he's never encountered. You don't have the slightest idea how damaging that mentality is and WAS to me and those like myself or, perhap, Gandalf....who's been listening to that kind of crap for years. Where has it gotten hiim......a LONG time of illness and unhappiness....by his own admission. HE STILL feels guilty that he takes these meds to feel "normal" which I find not only sad, but very unnecessary. Misinformed and untrue veiws like Grins' do not help anyone in ANY WAY. That's where this post started, is it not?

That kind of ignorance IS as damaging to people as much as being racist, against gay people or whatever your issue is. By allowing a blanket (in my opinion) untruth about these (also in my opinion) LIFE-SAVING medications is not something I can keep quiet about with a clear conscience.

I may sound mean and except for Mr Grins I don't mean to be. This is my heartfelt view......from someone who's been there AND will be there my whole life.

And for one last tidbit....I've been in my share of mental hospitals when I was young. Do you know what medication they gave me for my depression? Stelazine......a variation of Thorazine....for someone who's depressed. They give a downer med.(this was many years ago) Boy that sure helped my depression let me tell you, ha ha. So I've had my own share of bed experiences with meds. Mental health has come a LONG way since then so when I hear uniformed and untrue statements by those who don't have a clue........yes....it angers me.

[Weedhound]

In case I left this out. .....I am speaking to those people who DO benefit from some sort of anti-depression medication. I will be the first to agree that not everyone on meds needs to be on meds. I DO want to make this point clear in case I didn't earlier. People LOVE to take a pill to solve their problems. And whether or not people want to admit it......that's really all we are doing with cannabis as well truth be told. Think cannabis is a touch overused by some? Hmmmmm.....let me think.

But the view that ALL people really need to do to solve clinical depression is get a little more self-discipline or WHATEVER (Gandalf fighting meds for six years....)is the real insanity here and I'll fight that tooth and nail.

[rebgirl420]

My bi-polar meds help my depression

Daily:

seroquel 1,000 mg once a night

trazadone 100 mg once at night

lithium 900 mg once in morning - once in night



Its the best thing that ever happened to me.

[Weedhound]

I read a book once about actress Patty Duke....an autobiography. She talks about her own fight with manic-depression and tells a GREAT story in her book about how one night someone tried to break into her home. Upon seeing this, she screamed LOUDLY and her teenage sons came running immediately asking what was wrong and why she was screaming. When she told them that she had seen someone trying to break in they replied "Thank God! We thought you forgot to take your lithium!"

According to her this is a true story. :)

[Purple Banana]

Trazadone 50 mg
Elavil 25 mg
Also on Lyrica 200mg x3 per day

Both helpful for Fibromyalgia and combating anxiety from my Asperger's.

Weed works best for pain killing for me, though. I don't take Rx pain meds.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Trazadone 50 mg
Elavil 25 mg
Also on Lyrica 200mg x3 per day

Both helpful for Fibromyalgia and combating anxiety from my Asperger's.

Weed works best for pain killing for me, though. I don't take Rx pain meds.


Lyrica's good stuff PB, but expensive as hell! However it's a fantastic nerve pain med because it almost cured the needles going down my arms and into my hands. I used to get them really bad, really painfully, and lyrica outright stopped it. After 3 months of taking it I quit, and the needles only come back maybe once a month and not half as bad. I don't know what the stuff did, but somehow it seems to have practically cured that particular problem.

Ice doesn't seem to do a damn thing any more.

And paxil, which I attribute to it's inhibition of seratonin reuptake, has decreased my pain by about 20%. Overal no depression any more, though it still makes me feel very tense. Not in an anxious way, I'm actually very relaxed, but there's a physical tension from my solar plexus to the jaw from it.

[Purple Banana]

Yeah, Lyrica's been amazing so far- none of the weight gain I feared. I have a good insurance plan through my parents, so I get really cheap prescriptions. Glad to hear it's helped you!

My baseline pain used to be a 7, now it's a 5. I get massage every week, and that's covered by insurance too, thank goodness. A massage while baked is surely one of Man's finer pleasures.

[budl0v3r]

300mg Wellbutrin XL once a day.
I don't like it one damm bit!
I hate taking med's like that I don't feel in control, and I absolutely hate that feeling more than anything. It scares to death to be out of control. That's why I refuse to drink alcohol, smoke cigarette's or take hard drug's, they will change me and put me out of control. I am the type of person that will take any chance given to me to get a good feeling, I'm not a happy person at all alot of people think I'm just a mean irritable person. I'm not! Not at all I have extreme anxiety issue's, I am dysthymic (Look it up). I don't want to take the wellbutrin I'm on, but without I'm afraid I'd kill myself. Marijuana is the only drug I've tried that while allowing me to be in an amazing mood, still lets me be in control. Even when I'm baked off my ass I can still get past that to act normal if I need to, and I have. Whenever I try to talk to my psychiatrist's (yes I have more than 1) about it, they don't listen to me.
:baggy:+:rastabong:=:upsidedow
I agree with alot of people that their are alot of over medicated people out there, but there are also alot of people out there that need their medications. My aunt for one, she takes alot of very strong painkiller's every day, and STILL can't move, she's disabled, she can no longer work because of a work accident. I want her to try smoking marijuana (one of the strain's that work for neurological/nerve damage) but don't really know how to go about talking to her about it.
I know I forgot alot of the stuff I wanted to say here, oh well. Got alot of my chest. Happy toking :rastasmoke:

[Spellbound]

I've been on Lexapro for a few years now. I go through bouts of suicidal thoughts still but it really helps with my anxiety. For the most part it's helpful but there are a few times when I'll stop taking it for days at a time and feel horrible and realize I need it. This battle inside me is itself depressing. Good luck with your treatment, in the long run it really can be beneficial, I just have to want mine to be to get there.

As far as MJ goes it's also been very helpful curbing my suicidal thoughts. When I was smoking daily for a month I never had one but when I cut back to 1-2 times a week it came back. I smell a potential study.

[chisme]

i think i am depressed ive been feeling this way up and down (mostly down) throughout this last year, its come to a head in the last 2-3 months, im ashamed to admit ive even had thoughts of suicide on 2 occasions. i used to use weed as a releif from these feelings but even that doesnt help much as add to my problems, im in debt to family and friends im now trying to work up the balls to a dentist without bawlling my eyes out. is there anyway to get anti-depressant of the shelf? and are they expensive.

i thought that people with depressio were just weak minded unsociable people that is untill i became one myself. its true people dont know what its like untill theyve felt like this.

[chisme]

sorry where its says dentist^^ i was soposed to write docter . sorry

[chisme]

dont let my comments kill this thread

[GrinS]

Ive been a little lacking in posting, however Weedhound from your comments it clearly shows you clearly do need medication, you are quite hosile and it shows...... and yes this is a personal attack, since i count like 5 from you in your first post, i might as well get 1 on the board.......

talking to heavily depressed people who like Weedhound CANT live life without his 10 pills a day, I'm the wrong one..... I apologize weedhound for even trying to express my opinion..... and every time in my posts that I do, you preceded to "hush" me..... hahah i find this hilarious, go run for senate and you would probably win with those tactics..

scrub

Go read up on serial killers and how their minds work, u will clearly find some similarities..

[chisme]

Ive been a little lacking in posting, however Weedhound from your comments it clearly shows you clearly do need medication, you are quite hosile and it shows...... and yes this is a personal attack, since i count like 5 from you in your first post, i might as well get 1 on the board.......

talking to heavily depressed people who like Weedhound CANT live life without his 10 pills a day, I'm the wrong one..... I apologize weedhound for even trying to express my opinion..... and every time in my posts that I do, you preceded to "hush" me..... hahah i find this hilarious, go run for senate and you would probably win with those tactics..

scrub

Go read up on serial killers and how their minds work, u will clearly find some similarities..


look i dont wanan get involved but from what i read grins u did kinda bring the hostilaty in here,

[chisme]

People have to start getting some self control. Maybe start actually having a backbone and fix there problems themselves.

I know I am get a lot of heat for this, but when I feel down, I know its just a mind set, and a good 8 hours later will be a new day, new attitude, and a new adventure.

i mean brother anyone who IS depressed will hate you for posting that, and what about the people the feelings dont just dissapear in 8hours? what about the people who feel this way for weeks months even years? and are scared to seek help because of fear the docter might be someone like you!:mad:

[cannilady]

I had to stop anti-depressants for health reasons. It seems they cause dry mouth syndrome and I've lost most of my teeth after two years of continual use. Moderate MM helps with my mood disorder and I don't have chronic dry mouth (It really is a true "disorder").:D

[deaner]

I've dealt with depression most my life, don't know why, but unless I'm high, I'm depressed. I take zoloft, and figure I would have done myself in if not for zoloft and occasional other stuff, mj works wonders when I've got it, the 2 together are the best for me. I think years of drug abuse really made my depression unfixable and am glad a pill a day keeps me steady, although my creativity has diminished alot. Mj helps there too. Theres this stuff called kratom that is legal and affordable, but after a while its addictive too, and very similar to opiate withdrawl, yuck! But it has helped me and many others get off opiates. If I miss a pill or 2 my wife tells me I need to take my zoloft, and load the bowl.