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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%
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    #31
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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...

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    #32
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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.

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    #33
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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.

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    #34
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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.

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    #35
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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.

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    #36
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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.

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    #37
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    Quote Originally Posted by 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.

    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.

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    #38
    Senior Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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.

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    #39
    Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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:

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    #40
    Member

    Who here is on anti-depressants?

    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.
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