Why would you need to take them in the first place? Hillary lost the election.
At some point, I would start to wonder if being depressed is who you are supposed to be.
Too many people have learned to be depressed.
My doctor put me on Effexor for anxiety and after a couple of years, I decided to go off of it. I had these electric shock feelings everytime I turned my head (head zaps) and my anxiety went through the roof!! I had to wean myself off of it and it took almost 6 months. I will NEVER go on anti-depressants again! I have learned other ways to deal with the anxiety.
Maybe she's depressed because she doesn't know if she's married or not.
“The drugs have helped millions of people ease depression and anxiety, and are widely regarded as milestones in psychiatric treatment”
Wrong. Putting a “happy face” chemical in your bloodstream doesn’t stop depression or anxiety. It causes the body to exhibit the external symptoms of happiness but does not, obviously, change the root cause of the depression.
So the person is still depressed/anxious but has a happy face.
Chemical fake happiness does not equal happiness.
The best mood lifters for me is a vitamin B-12 with folic acid patch. SAMe is very good also. Don’t forget that the “feel good” brain chemical serotonin is made in the gut, so keeping things going smoothly down there is important.
Why are they depressed? Trump is in the White House.
Trump is still in the White House, they are still depressed.
Therefore, they need their depressants.
The healthcare system prescribes these things as a cure. They are not. The meds have a role to play: they can give a person a lift, and time to address the depression. They can learn coping skills and lifestyle changes while on an SSRI. The idea that a pill solves the whole thing for life is ridiculous and dangerous.
I have been depressed for years, having suffered under liberal leftist leadership and subsequent loss of jobs for being a conservative. Even now, the suffering continues as liberals try nonstop to destroy what we voted for and us personally, repeatedly wishing us dead with no consequence. I still don’t touch anti-depressants. I’m waiting for the big cheer when God finally stomps them all and depression in my corner disappears. He has promised that He eventually will do so.
Yep. Psychiatric meds are powerful stuff. You need to ween off of them. But of course if you actually needed them then when you finally do get off you’re back in the boat you started anyway.
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Years ago a doctor put me on some sort of antidepressant (Effexor, I think), and I took them for a while. But I decided I didn’t need them, and put them down. I was like explosions going off in my head...so here’s what I did.
It’s not quitting them that’s so bad, per se, but “cold turkey” quitting that will get you.
I bought some cheap vitamin capsules, emptied the “vitamin” out the capsule and, refilled it, half-way, with the antidepressant. After a week or so of that, I cut it down to only a fourth of a capsule for a couple of weeks...THEN, I cut them out all together. No more withdrawal symptoms.
You have to wean yourself off these types of drugs. It’s the only drug I ever took that was addictive, and never any since.
The addictive nature of these drugs and the horrific withdrawal effects are well documented. Pharma and their lackies at the FDA and in the press and media work overtime to cover up this multibillion dollar fraud
My wife was talked into these f’n drugs when she suffered a bout of depression after the birth of our two oldest children. She was given the prescription by an unscrupulous doctor (I do mean unscrupulous, he was later arrested and removed from the profession for molesting some of his patients).
She has struggled to get off of them now years later. She’s in the middle of the latest effort right now. It’s not easy at all.
Our youngest son was born with Autism. I am convinced that it’s not vaccines causing the epidemic of Autism, but rather the over-prevalent use of anti-depressants by so many women today.
It’s a terrible situation that the medical profession has put our people into — especially women, since they make up the bulk of anti-depressant patients.
This is what happens when we incentivize the promotion of prescription drugs, whether it’s opioids, statens, anti-depressants, and many others.
Antidepressants block the retrieval of emotionally disturbing memories that are causing depression. It’s as though your consciousness is a radio tuner and when you recall traumatic events or worry, it drags you to the lower frequencies where one experiences depression. Antidepressants blocks the neural transmission, thus blocking the ability to retrieve the troublesome memories.
Antidepressants do not resolve traumatic issues that bother us. They merely block them. When you stop taking the drugs, the unresolved issues return.
People become psychologically addicted as when they stop taking the medications, the floodgates open and the unresolved issues return, creating the psychological need to take the drugs again.
(Just in the middle of typing this message I received a phone call that a friend took his life by hanging himself late yesterday....) Darn...
When a person prays, it raises their consciousness to a higher level out of depression. When a person prays that is on antidepressants, it is as though the knob is off the radio tuner and the person’s consciousness can’t tune to higher levels.
People should never quit antidepressants cold turkey. It should be done gradually under the supervision of an MD, and with a psychologically trained person to help the patient learn tools to deal with the unresolved issues surfacing.
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they need comfort gerbils
my niece was on anti depressants for 18 yrs (after the death of her new born son) they changed her tremendously, and even now she is not the same person. I can’t understand why her doctor thought this was good for her.
A medicated society in a daze is much easier to control. This is by design. The government wants everybody addicted to stupor inducing drugs and incapable of doing anything. This is by design.