POLL: Do you take/have taken Anti-Depressants??

[stormbv]

I've been on Paxil for the past year, which has been the best year of my life. I had spent all four years of high school and almost all four years of college in a haze of depression and obsession, but I finally broke down and saw a counsellor.

Ahh...life is good.

 

[Dragnov]

Originally posted by: StormRider

Originally posted by: IamDavid

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: StormRider

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I hate that its called "Depression".. It implies that I always am depressed and wanna kill myself which is far from the truth. I have never wanted to die or anything of the sort. I do however feel distant and detached when I'm not on meds. DO you know how you feel when you haven't slept for a couple days? Thats what depression is to me. Not the helpless, unhappy person always portrayed..

The feeling I get when I haven't slept for days is called sleepy and tired -- not depression. Depression, to me, means feeling sad and hopeless.

You do feel "sad" to an extent (at least I do) but he's right about the detached from reality thing as well. Nothing's funny. Nothing's interesting. Everything just....is. It sucks.

That is so right about feeling nothing.. I once sat a few feet away from a baby that was chocking on a piece of pizza. I just sat there watching the mother and father try franticly to remove the pizza from its throat. I felt nothing, no sadness for the parents, not worry for the kid. I just sat there thinking "huh, look at that. a kid chocking".. Two days later I ordered some paxil from a company in Mexico and received them 1 week later. Been on them since..

I'm kind of like that. Once when I was helping out at my parent's restaurant a lady said I was the coldest person she ever encountered (basically because I didn't display any emotion when she was complaining about something).

When my grandpa died, it had no affect on me. I saw him about a week or two when he was in the one of those elderly care centers just lying there on his bed. Helpless, dying from old age. Yet I wasn't sad. I didn't care. What was I supposed to? I cried eventually, but not over the fact that he is gone, but rather that I didn't care. I tried to make myself care but I couldn't, it just didn't come to me. And then I found out a few days later my grandmother went into a seizure and comma. I didn't care then either. I couldn't help it. I can't force an emotion that isn't there. I'm supposed to care, but I just don't. I don't think anyone can understand depression until you've actually experienced it. If my parents died, I'm not sure if I would care. If I died, I don't really care either.

 

[ILikeStuff]

Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK

Originally posted by: StormRider

Originally posted by: IamDavid

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: StormRider

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I hate that its called "Depression".. It implies that I always am depressed and wanna kill myself which is far from the truth. I have never wanted to die or anything of the sort. I do however feel distant and detached when I'm not on meds. DO you know how you feel when you haven't slept for a couple days? Thats what depression is to me. Not the helpless, unhappy person always portrayed..

The feeling I get when I haven't slept for days is called sleepy and tired -- not depression. Depression, to me, means feeling sad and hopeless.

You do feel "sad" to an extent (at least I do) but he's right about the detached from reality thing as well. Nothing's funny. Nothing's interesting. Everything just....is. It sucks.

That is so right about feeling nothing.. I once sat a few feet away from a baby that was chocking on a piece of pizza. I just sat there watching the mother and father try franticly to remove the pizza from its throat. I felt nothing, no sadness for the parents, not worry for the kid. I just sat there thinking "huh, look at that. a kid chocking".. Two days later I ordered some paxil from a company in Mexico and received them 1 week later. Been on them since..

I'm kind of like that. Once when I was helping out at my parent's restaurant a lady said I was the coldest person she ever encountered (basically because I didn't display any emotion when she was complaining about something).

When my grandpa died, it had no affect on me. I saw him about a week or two when he was in the one of those elderly care centers just lying there on his bed. Helpless, dying from old age. Yet I wasn't sad. I didn't care. What was I supposed to? I cried eventually, but not over the fact that he is gone, but rather that I didn't care. I tried to make myself care but I couldn't, it just didn't come to me. And then I found out a few days later my grandmother went into a seizure and comma. I didn't care then either. I couldn't help it. I can't force an emotion that isn't there. I'm supposed to care, but I just don't. I don't think anyone can understand depression until you've actually experienced it. If my parents died, I'm not sure if I would care. If I died, I don't really care either.

It comes and goes for me. Sometimes it's a lot easier to be emotionless, but it can put a strain on relationships because people start to think you don't care about them.. well, I duno, maybe, in those instances I don't care... But I know I care about them, but I jsut have no feeling.. man the more I think about it the more it weirds me out.

 

[MithShrike]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I hate that its called "Depression".. It implies that I always am depressed and wanna kill myself which is far from the truth. I have never wanted to die or anything of the sort. I do however feel distant and detached when I'm not on meds. DO you know how you feel when you haven't slept for a couple days? Thats what depression is to me. Not the helpless, unhappy person always portrayed..

Aye, same here. The doctor asked me if I wanted to kill myself... I was like wha? Anyways... I've been on Prozac a few weeks and it does help some. Also, it made my appetite a lot smaller.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: Mith

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I hate that its called "Depression".. It implies that I always am depressed and wanna kill myself which is far from the truth. I have never wanted to die or anything of the sort. I do however feel distant and detached when I'm not on meds. DO you know how you feel when you haven't slept for a couple days? Thats what depression is to me. Not the helpless, unhappy person always portrayed..

Aye, same here. The doctor asked me if I wanted to kill myself... I was like wha? Anyways... I've been on Prozac a few weeks and it does help some. Also, it made my appetite a lot smaller.

Why did they start ya on Prozac? If your insured and can afford it you should've went with Paxil.. Prozac causes problems with your kidneys after longterm use.

 

[tweakmm]

I ran across this a couple of minutes ago and it pertains to the thread. It really is all in your head.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: minendo

Do you / have you taken anti-depressants?

Nope and nope. I only take depressants. :beer:

 

[Reliant]

Nope, I've never taken any.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Haven't taken any.

Whenever I feel depressed I just cut myself or drink alot, then I feel better. no need for anti-depressants.

 

[Dragnov]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I ran across this a couple of minutes ago and it pertains to the thread. It really is all in your head.

Have a fixed link?

 

[isaacmacdonald]

I'd love to try them, but you need some sort of serious depression or something to get a perscription right?

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
I'd love to try them, but you need some sort of serious depression or something to get a perscription right?

I don't use a prescription because I don't have insurance and don't want o spend the money to go to the Dr.'s.. I just order mine via Mexico and they arrive in about a week. Been doing it for a couple years now with no problems.. Not sure if its legal but I doubt if anyones gonna kick down my door and arrest me for buying anti depressants. lol Make sure ya do allot of research before you start any meds.. And listen to your body, if they don't feel right don't take any more.

 

[Regs]

Well If weed is illegal, then why not the next best thing... Anti Depressants! 70's was pure illegal drugs. 80's came more drugs and heavy drinking as an alternative, then came law enforcement cracking down on drugs in the 90's. So now everybody drinks a lot and runs to the doctors for a prescription drug. Hell, if there is a pill that can make you feel better day-in and day-out, why not? You only live once, and if a pill can make your life easier then so be it.

 

[4Lclovergirl]

I was on anti-depressants for about a year and a half. And not to knock anyone, but mine was honestly based on a chemical and not environmental problem. I wasn't produciing enough dopamine, and I couldn't sleep at all. Someone ablove mentioned that's how it fee;s when you are depressed, like not sleepign for a few days... well I didn't sleep at all! I cried b/c I would be so tired, and unabe to fall or stay asleep. The drug they gave me, Remorin (sp?) actually had a side affect of causing drowsiness, and in a reverse effect, lower doses caused more dorwsiness. Also had slight halocenogenic effects, amde for nice dreams. It took about 6 months before my sleep patten was normal again, then I was on it another year. I stopped in college b/c I was drinking and actually sleeping too much when they were combined. I had a kidney infection (not related) and was on Percs, and after that week of ntohign but drug induced sleep, I haven't had a problem. Don't know what kicked the sleep back to noraml or what, but while I may get depressed about life and general, I know it's different from "depression."

I think part of the problem with over perscribing anti- depressants is that alot of people can't make this distinction. I am not saying anyone on here who is on meds isn't depressed, but I bet alot of people are depressed with their lives, or their jobs, but it's not a chemical depression. And unfortunatly, the drugs on the market aren't designed to fix these problems. Again, I am not saying the being depressed isn't a problem, and it hsouldn't be fixed, but many people feel they need drugs and need to stay on them to be normal, when maybe for them they need to look at their lives and what they can change ot make them better.