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antidepressent meds


these are crazy pills, 1 out of 100 on them
  15% (3)
everyone is on them, no big deal
  26% (5)
try these and you are marked for life
  10% (2)
3 out 10 people are on them
  47% (9)


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(last vote on : 8/28/2006 8:10:14 AM)
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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 6:39:24 PM   
Arpig


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Status: offline 		I have no idea what percentage of people is on them, nor do I think it is at all relevant. I was on them, and am seriously considering going back on them. If you suffer from the symptoms they can resolve...then swallow them down

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 6:59:26 PM   
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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 7:01:18 PM   
Arpig


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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 7:33:50 PM   
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what the hell kind of comment was that.

I do not use any medication for recreational drugs, I strongly limit anything that I take in pill form.

I do hope that was not directed at me

Perhaps I need to block my second ever poster.

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 7:59:54 PM   
popeye1250


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Status: offline 		I take Lithium.
The V.A. just bloodtested me last week and my count was way down so they increased my dose by 50%.
The Nurse Practitioner called me fri and said my lithium level was .02 when it should be between .04 and 1.4.
No wonder I haven't been sleeping well lately!

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 8:31:31 PM   
nefertari


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quote:

ORIGINAL: untamedshysub

I have a 16 yr old who has been sucidial for the past five years , we have tried just about all the meds you named and finally found a balance between prozac and something that starts with an s. Professional help is needed as well getting the meds from your regular dr without getting to the root of the problem does not fix it. My daughter suffers from ptsd, and depression life has been hell but we finally see the light, you cannot make them seek help or take the meds they have to do it themselves. And a threapist she/he connects with is very important.


I have children (boy, 15 and girl, 11) with mental health issues as well.  Feel free to email me anytime you want to talk or just vent. 

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 8:35:01 PM   
nefertari


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quote:

ORIGINAL: smilezz

quote:

There are no known cures for mood disorders, treatment is the only thing available.

But are Meds the only type of treatment that work for those?  I truly don't know, that's why i am asking.
Is there alternative methods to help?  Does it necessarily have to be a Drug?  I guess i feel this way about all kinds of Med use, not just anti-depressants.  Just curious.

Thanks for the info.

~smilezz~


For mood disorders, yes.  It is a medical condition.  Recent studies are suggesting that bipolar disorder is actually caused by seizures in the brain.  You can do as much therapy as you want, it's not going to change a thing without medication.

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 8:54:09 PM   
Arpig


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Status: offline 		FUCK the perception..if they are needed, they are needed...since when did popular culture gain a say in one's health-care??

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 8:57:46 PM   
SavageFaerie


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Status: offline 		Arpig....your an asshole....thanks for explaining to me why in email


This people is how it works.  Good example regarding misunderstandings and working it out privately.

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 8:58:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		smilezz: In my case, my depression is completely biological. It is not related to anything that could be helped with therapy. I tried that route for a year. It had zero effect, and was very, very difficult. I felt guilty, like I should be feeling better than I was, and finally told the therapist it wasn't doing anything for me. I went back to a medical doctor, and then a psychiatrist, and I tried a new anti-depressant, which (yay!) turned ou to be the most effective one I'd been on. The doctor I see now, and a few others, agree that anti-depressants are defintiely the remedy for my type of depression. The only thing that helps me is the correct anti-depressant. It woud be like suggesting jogging as a remedy, for someone with measles, to me. It simply doesn't work.

Although there are people other remedies do work for, including counselling therapy, without a doubt.
There are several kinds of depression, and I'd hate to see anyone lump all people who suffer from it into one basket. Every individual who has it might need something different to work through it, or control it.
I think they certainly deserve an individual diagnosis. 

- Susan

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 9:29:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have had more experience with mentally ill people than I really care to admit.  And I will agree that there are many different versions of depression, and of every other form of mental illness as well.  With causes ranging from the purely situational to the purely biological to the purely psychological.  And everywhere in between.  And individual reactions to particular treatments can vary just as widely, and without rhyme or reason, either. 

A decade or so, when I was studying such things, it was estimated that 1 in 5 people walking down the street suffered a major psychiatric disorder.  I doubt that things have gotten any better since then. 

OeldeWolf

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 9:43:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		I sure wish someone could figure me out. I think I have some of all. But being on disability I cannot afford due to medicare restrictions to fully find out.  Its mostly a guessing game and many medication changes.  Maybe the Houston area will have more resources

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 9:58:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		smilezz...for some of us, therapy doesn't really work very well, because it's a medical problem...i tried therapy for years until i finally broke down & accepted the idea that i needed the meds & that i would need them forever...with the meds, i can have up to 5 good years in a row...without them, i spiral down into suicidal & other self-destructive behaviors...when the depression comes over me, i feel like i'm being posessed by a being that is trying to destroy me...it's not the real me at all...i've been depressed ever since my first memeories, so porbably since birth...there are endemic depressions & there are situational depressions...i would never recommend someone in the throes of situational depression to simply take the meds without any other form of treatment...
twice now, the meds have not been enough for me & i have had to have shock treatments to save my life...it sounds barbaric, but they work...i just keep fighting, cause i think this life is worth experiencing & my natural curiosity makes me wonder what i would miss if i gave in to the depression & suicide....


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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 10:24:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		lilsubl: I had two shock treatments also. Fun they are not. But they did work for me.

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RE: antidepressent meds - 8/27/2006 11:39:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do think and agree it's a good idea to try counseling before medication (to make sure it's not environmental as opposed to biological before you start medicating yourself), unless you are suicidal, then get thee to a doctor fast, please.  You can do a combination of medication and counseling to at least get you leveled enough so medication is no longer necessary.  I no longer take medication, and although I do still have bouts of depression, I know how to recognize it for what it is and it is not as severe as it once was.

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