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To: Auntie Mame

Regular docs prescribing psych meds is never a good idea. Maybe get her to a Psychiatrist, and let them talk to her. I’ve dealt with mental illness my whole life, currently not taking anything. I decided I’d rather deal with the illness than the effects of the meds.


7 posted on 06/05/2012 4:56:43 PM PDT by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
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To: real saxophonist
They seem to give anti-depressants for almost anything nowadays. After I was wounded, they gave me some (I don't remember the name).

I had to increase the dosage to get to the "right" level....and whatever I do, don't stop taking them immediately. I wasn't suicidal, but I cannot describe the feeling, but think intense anger and severe apathy at the same time (like intense rage at anything and everything and not caring about the consequences or much else for that matter). The more I took, the worse it got. And oh, it didn't stop the physical pain from the injury.

I remember burning holes into the living room floor with my eyes and then somewhere in the fog, THANK GOD, I tried to think of why I was so angry............I dumped every last one of those pills into the toilet. I never heard so much pissing and moaning as when the "doctor" found out I quit cold turkey.

Of course, these pills are "safer" than narcotics.

Never felt like that before or since. I had one other doctor try to get me to take them anyway afterward (even after I explained my negative reaction); just gotta get the dosage right. I asked him if he would care if his house were burned down.....because his patient would probably be angry enough to do it and stop at the DQ for a carefree ice cream cone aafterward.

Strange, he stopped recommended me that crap.

55 posted on 06/05/2012 5:54:23 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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