my thoughts on anti-depressants

[smith family kennels]

Ok if you ever feel like life sucks and your worthless and its just not worth it and all that sh**. DO NOT tell your doctor you need anti depressants. I have been on anti depressants for 4 years because im a little off in the head (what dog people arent) and now I am having the roughest time coming off of them. See you only think the way you feel sucks wait until you have to come off this crap and you feel that way and sick to your stomach and like your heads floating and you have been with out feeling emotions for so long that they just come pouring in all at once and make you feel like you have completely lost it and that they would be better off sticking you in a padded room. Im telling yall this cause some people may not be as strong as others and may not handle the detox of this crap as good as I am. Now dont get me wrong Im a fruit cake and I know this but my God the last time I was this sick was when my Gallbladder went out and I couldnt hold anything down including water for a month and lost 38lbs in 3 weeks. I am a smoker and a caffine drinker from hell and I cant touch either one of them cause my stomach is to upset and believe me the detox from the cigs and caffine is almost as bad as the anti depressants.

My thought on Anti-depressants they freaking suck monkey balls and your better off just being crazy. Who the hell wants to be numb for 4 years and feel nothing at all and then have to feel everything at once with the detox of coming off of drugs like your an addict and its not your fault that the medical world sucks and they cant find any other way to help depressed and other mentally ill people than to make them take addictive drugs that are only going to screw their minds up worse in the long run. God gave you feelings to let you know something is wrong or it hurts you don't try to numb them its just not worth it:eek:

[Leon]

Yeah, i have heard bad bad things about anti depressants. They don't fix the problem, just masks it. These days Drugs are just pushed on people weather people need them or not. Sometimes i think these pharmaceutical companies are no better than the local drug dealers, selling you extremely addictive, over priced drugs that give you a short fix.

Considing the awesome family and dogs you have, use them as a anti depressant.

[smith family kennels]

I do my dogs are my life and god help me I cant even type right I am getting all spirital over here i am starting to sound like the dude from karate kid you ought to read some of the crap ive been posting on gopitbull

[Leon]

I learned a lot from Mr. Miyagi myself. He is all the spiritual guidance you need.

[Peanutsmommy]

i dont have any experience myself with antidepressants but the side effects from the commercials are freaking scary....i could only imagine being on them and trying to get away from them. good luck i wish you the best

[FloorCandy]

I have a family member who went through the same thing. It's terrible. I'm a firm believer that doctors should recommend therapy before drugs, because drugs aren't fixing the problem, they are just masking them. Now I see all these commercials about how paxil use by parents caused heart defects in babies, just bad news all around.

[Phedra]

I went to the naturalpath for depression around Christmas last year. He prescribed me some stuff called Tryfonia Max it is a seretonin production pill which helps your body produce its own in the brain. It really helped me. I was in a skidoo accident on Boxing Day where I wacked my melon REALLY friggin hard on the compact snow and somehow I developed Vertigo. After a few months of being on the pills the Dr. said I was good and to start weaning myself off. No withdrawals. BUT then at the beginning of this year I was depressed again I started taking the pills...the Vertigo came back!! I realized that the snowmobile accident didn't have anything to do with the Vertigo it was the pills.

[smith family kennels]

exactly they screw you up. I got on my after my car accident back in 04 then i switched them a year later to something else which ive been on until now your body is not meant to take that crap much less for long periods of time. Let your body do what it does its doing it for a reason. I swear if I have ever been more depressed it is now trying to get off this crap. All I want to do is sleep it away so that I dont have to deal with it. Its not working by the way. I swear if I had a choice between coming off this crap and beating my head into a wall i would beat my head into the wall

[ItsMe]

The thing about our wonderful modern day anti-depressants is they do powerful things inside the brain. They parallel many illegal drugs of abuse in the sense that powerful buttons are being pushed in the brain. Where as heroin, cocaine or meth push the ultimate reward button in the brain, anti depressants are supposed to regulate the pushing of a button(different neurotransmitters but a fitting analogy). The problem is that the brain adapts to chemical manipulation of neurotransmitters. Anti-depressants are a very gradual process, hence the withdrawal sucks so much. I've been through just about every opiate withdrawal you can think of and something about anti-depressant withdrawal intimidated me. I would never take them again. I think in the future we will see the prescribing guidelines of anti-depressants change. I predict that they will stop being given out like candy and more therapy will be recommended. Anyways, the moral of the story is there is a hefty price for altering the neurochemistry in the brain and anti-depressants are a powerful way to do that.

[Dansgrizz]

Very educational ITSME very true. The antidepressants regulate the release of seratonin between your synapses and nerve endings. This causes the chemicals in your body to be regulated and therefore your emotions are regulated. Where as with cocain, heroin, and meth the synapses are fireing rapidly and cannot uptake the seratonin for recycling in the body, so you run out of it an take time to restore. The anti depressants can either STOP the release or FLOOD the body with seratonins. Anti depressants are a ver scary drug and i obviously KNOW WAY TO MUCH ABOUT DRUGS LOL. with drawals are a bitch and the said thing is antidepressants are handed out to the american public like it was candy, more doctors need to delve deeper and find out the roots of the depressing feelings. There are a number of ways to relieve depression from homepathic means to simply changin lifestyle or sleep problems. Not to mention MANY antidepressants can cause psychosis.

[smith family kennels]

ok my ass is to lazy to look that up. What do they call the part when your head feels literally like its floating consitstanly and it tends to throw you off balance and send you spinning when you move to fast. And what about the how spirital kick im on

[FloorCandy]

ok my ass is to lazy to look that up. What do they call the part when your head feels literally like its floating consitstanly and it tends to throw you off balance and send you spinning when you move to fast. And what about the how spirital kick im on

Vertigo? Is that it?

[smith family kennels]

hell i dont know look it up and post it on here and ill tell ya lmfao

[FloorCandy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(medical)

[smith family kennels]

thats pretty much it with some feeling or should i say not feeling of some body parts and motions like typing thats why my typing skills have gone to the birds along with my mental ability to spell lmfao

[smith family kennels]

anyone know around how long this crap last

[ItsMe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSRI_discontinuation_syndrome-probably tell you everything you need to know

[smith family kennels]

i couldnt get that to pull up or find it but
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holy shit is my doctor trying to kill me (5.benzodiazepines like alprazolam (Xanax) or diazepam (Valium)

[Dansgrizz]

A full recovery from withdrawals takes 18 months the extreme effects last 8 weeks east but up to 90 days. Thefirst week ishell the next 3weeks is badbut gets better.

[smith family kennels]

lmao thanks dan you could have aleast lied to me a little bit hahaha make me think it would be easy

[Carriana]

What type of anti-d's were you on?

I was prescribed Xanax a few years back for stress. I literally felt like a zombie when I took even 1/2 of one. I stoped taking them when the bottle was gone. The world could have been ending, people screaming and dying around me and I would have looked around, shrugged my shoulders and said "meh...". That stuff is good for nothing but taking before flying, LOL.

[smith family kennels]

I was double dosed apparently.
I took Effexor XR for depression
and Xanax for axiety thats so not spelt right

Ive been on both of them for 4 years this is my first week doing completely with out and I was stepped off of them. Ya my butt. I have never felt so bad in my life

[Dansgrizz]

You'll be ok! Power through caffiene and candy (sugar) create natural seratonin release. So now you have an excuse to endulge ;)

[smith family kennels]

lmao yeah ive been doing that. Nate keeps saying my God your acting like your pregnant I was like naw I know im not

[Carriana]

I'm glad you're getting off of them. Not in all cases, but in many doctors jump to prescibe meds when the problem can be either controlled or lessened by a proper diet and exercise.

[Dansgrizz]

BTW your "spiritual" feeling is called normalcy LOL. Im being serious too. I knwo the feeling you start becming intune with your bodies feelings and functions and its like your feeling all over again. Your body is returning to normal and this is how you are dealing with it. as martha stewart would say "its a good thing" LOL

[smith family kennels]

does forgetfulness fall in that too or is that just the blonde thing cause I cant remember lmao. I totally forgot that I have two grooming appointments tomorrow one ankle bitter and one lab and I also forgot to order more webbing. ehhhhh its so agirvating

[smith family kennels]

Ok I have to update this Thread. Its been over a year since Ive been off my meds. Let me tell ya'll what has happened. I did really good for 6 months then gradually started falling. About 2 months ago I started to crash. Ive hit bottom again. I still don't like Anti depressants and Don't want back on them. My anxiety attacks have gotten so bad again that Im having trouble leaving the house and going around people without getting sick again. Im what they call a Agrophobic plus I suffer from depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. I might start taking a xanax when I have to leave th house just to keep me from puking but I don't want to be back on them everyday like I was and I sure don't want them mixing them again. Im also going to therapy for this now which I hsould have done before. Its pointless to take meds if you don't do anything to change the way you are and how you act.

Just thought I would say that lol