Originally posted by: Oceandevi
All ads for anti-depressants scare me.
for real.
anti-depressants are a nasty prescription. For some they work great, but for many they can be disastrous.
depression, as a 'disorder', is something we know basically nothing about. So many people can share the same underlying cause, out of whack neurotransmitters, and all these prescriptions try and tackle those. But what we gotta get at is why are the NTs not balanced correctly? So many things can cause this.
To be labeled 'depressed', do you have to go to get an NT-level scan done, or is it something the doctor does by looking at your symptoms and deciding you are depressed? Because I think a lot of personality styles may just push one into feeling blue but isn't a true clinical case. And meds for these people are going to cause havoc in the brain.
I might have mild depression, but I very much dislike the idea of meds, and don't care to even find out. I also am fairly confident, and my doctor is too, that I have mild ADD, but one... again I hate the idea of prescription meds, and two, the Army doesn't want anybody with meds either.
Which sucks because I could totally use Adderall some days for school, but I don't need it to function or live normally. It's simply a school thing. I wouldn't mind being prescribed it while in school still, use it maybe 2 or 3 times a week, get better grades, and then stop once I get into my career. Because ROTC runs under Army health mandates, that isn't acceptable. At least, all the stuff I've seen basically says its grounds for disqualification, and who knows may be able to get away with it while in school but I refuse to take that chance.
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