View Poll Results: Are you on anti-depressants?
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Nope, I'm happy
10 100.00% -
No, but maybe I should be
11 100.00% -
Paxil
1 10.00% -
Effexor
2 20.00% -
Cymbalta
2 20.00% -
Celaxa/Lexapro
5 50.00% -
Welbutrin
3 30.00% -
Zoloft
6 60.00% -
Remeron
1 10.00% -
Other (specify)
13 100.00%
Multiple Choice Poll.
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12-20-2007, 03:59 PM #21OPSenior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
I actually would have added marijuana and prozac in the pole, but it's limited to 10 options.
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12-20-2007, 06:38 PM #22Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
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 teenagerand 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.
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12-20-2007, 07:06 PM #23Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
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
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12-20-2007, 07:39 PM #24Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
No chowder and Nature.....THANK YOU BOTH.....you guys said it the best!! :thumbsup:
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12-20-2007, 07:50 PM #25Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
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.
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.
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12-20-2007, 07:55 PM #26Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
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
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12-20-2007, 09:18 PM #27Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
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!
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12-21-2007, 02:07 AM #28Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
Originally Posted by Infamous
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.
Originally Posted by Weedhound
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.
Originally Posted by Infamous
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.
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12-21-2007, 03:39 AM #29Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
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.
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12-21-2007, 03:54 AM #30Senior Member
Who here is on anti-depressants?
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!
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