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Are you on any psychiatric drugs? I'm on Lexapro and abilify for OCD and depression. It works pretty well. If yes or if you have been on one for the past, what are you on and why? How well did it work?
| Yes, I'm on one psychiatric drug | 12 | |
| Yes, I'm on two psychiatric drugs | 10 | |
| Yes, I'm on 3 of more psychiatric drugs | 9 | |
| No, but I have been on a psychiatric drug in the past | 9 | |
| No, never been on psychiatric drugs | 27 |
No but i attended group therapy with my son, Scott Evil. I talked about my childhood and the therapist awkwardly interrupted me. *Pets his shaved cat*
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. A sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. If I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fifteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shaven scrotum. At the age of eighteen, I went off to evil medical school. From there...
Currently, no. Used to be on Lexapro and Seroquel. For Dysthymia--long lasting mild to moderate depression. I now harness my depression and use it for art. Although, drugs works for many many people, for me, they inhibited my creativity. Without that, I would have no cause for existence.
to me, this makes sense because from what I understand, these psycho-drugs are made to inhibit your pineal gland which is how you access your intuition and that is connected to creativity. Fluoride is basically the same molecule and doing the same thing, which is why they try to put it in the public water system to control our minds, just like Hitler did it during the holocaust to dumb down and control the POWs and Jews, etc.
Thanks for sharing. Glad you can harness it for your creativity and art.
No, I never have been, but I've wondered if I should be. A few times a year, I get really horrible anxiety and panic attacks, but I never saw a doctor for it because it's so infrequent. Also, tbh, I'm really scared of the idea of taking a long term med that alters my brain chemistry, like an SSRI.
Yeah SSRIs/that alter brain chemistry can be scary. Wish I could go off mine.
What do you take them for, if it's not too personal a question?
The idea of altering my brain chemistry has always freaked me out, not to mention the fact that doctors prescribe them like candy without taking a proper medical history. I'm fairly certain that it would be dangerous for me, since I have some bipolars in the family lineage, and I know they can trigger mania.
I actually have no idea if SSRIs are even a treatment for anxiety attacks...like I said, I never saw a doctor about it.
I'm on Zoloft for depression/panic disorder. I can now go about my daily life without constantly having to lock myself in the bathroom to cry. I sometimes wish I wasn't dependent on the medicine, but when I'm not taking it I kinda wanna die and it's a very cheap fix with my insurance.
Our bodies don't need these damned chemicals in order to be healthy! They're made in a lab which is not what nature intended! Herb as medicine is cheaper, healthier and an all around better way! FUCK BIG PHARMA!!
Particularly the psychiatric drugs, but some regular pharmaceuticals are actually deliberately made to screw up something else in your body to provoke another ailment to ensure their job security. It's really a f'd up situation. I trust mother nature before I trust the government any day. How many TV commercials have you seen that say, "have you been a victim of X medicine that caused, X,Y,Z...." If you think about how HFCS has been proven to CAUSE diabetes. The same entity is behind that agenda as well.
I agree and disagree... some drugs do cause other problems but some dont. I mean if its a choice between a medicine that will save us (with some side affects) or mother nature quickly killing us (no side affects), Id rather live (unless the side affect is suicidal tendencies).
I worked as an interpreter in health care for 13 years, and plus I've observed my friends' and family's experiences and I've seen this happen. For example the medicine called lamisil for toenail fungus is expensive, plus very hard on your liver, when you can just buy a container of tea tree oil with a Q-tip and that heals it w/o hurting your liver or pocket book. The pharmaceutical system is made to make money, not to heal anybody. No pharmaceutical offers a "cure" (except maybe anti-biotics) if you read the fine print. They want to get people to keep having to buy medicine instead of healing them. It sucks. As for pharmaceutical drugs, I'm not a doctor and I'm not real familiar with it. However, I do know that all the drugs they put kids on for ADD/ADHD/autism/etc is not good. From what I understand the vaccines cause those problems. It's all pretty horrible, really. I just know I don't trust pharmaceuticals at all. I haven't had health insurance since the 90's, and I just use herbal and holistic remedies and avoid GMOs, processed foods, HFCS, etc, and drink tea instead of juice and cold pressed organic oils for food, and at 39 I look about 25, and I'm healthier than people even 10 years younger than me.
well, I'm glad you're feeling better. However, if I was in your situation, I would try to google herbal or homeopathic remedies for your diagnosed condition. It's because pharmaceuticals are notorious for deliberately poisoning/clouding your pineal gland which is your intuition/creativity. And THAT is very bad, in my opinion anyway. I rely on my intuition and w/o it, I'd feel like I had no arms or legs practically.
I'm not. But the woman is. She takes lamicital, Wellbutrin, lithium, and Xanax.
we were put on this world in the history of mankind, not with these pharmaceuticals, but with herbs and other natural remedies. and in my opinion, if you compare those people to modern Americans that are supposedly so much more advanced, they're a whole hell of a lot healthier!
Can I just ask people that are on them, do you think you actually benefit from the drugs? Did they help you?
Also.. does your doctor have a plan to get you off them, or are they just giving you pills as a "cure"?
Yes, in my case the drugs help and I feel like myself. I know some people say the feel kind of flat. I feel normal on them but my OCD is diminished and I'm not depressed. We DID plan together to take me off once. It didn't work out. I hope not to need the drugs forever, but I don't know what the future holds on that. Going off is hard, because if you feel bad again it takes generally anywhere from 3 weeks to 2 months for an SSRI anti-depressant to work once you go back on... So, the thought of trying to back off again scares me. However, I would like to be off one day. I don't know what will happen, and my Dr. is pretty open to let me be part of decisions regarding whether i want to go off.
Ahhh, thank you for your reply.
I once took diazepam for back pain. I did not know it was an anti-depressant, it made me feel uncomfortable, I didn't feel like myself.
I was wondering if others experienced that.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and good luck.
Hopefully, others will answer too. I know a lot of people who have taken meds or who are on meds and SOME do say they don't feel like themselves. My mom even said that about Paxil. On lexapro I totally feel like me in every way like I said except feeling better. I'm actually more creative (some people say they're less creative on them), but I feel more creative because I can stop obsessing and actually think clearly. My husband just did some dna testing and one interesting result category was that they actually told him which SSRI antidepressant tends to work with people with the type of genes he has. I don't think they know why yet, and I think they're just looking at correlations at this point, but maybe it does have something to do with genes how you react to particular anti-depressants... we'll find out one day I hope. Unfortunately, now there's lots of guess work still involved and psychiatrists do a lot of trial and error. I know plenty of people who felt not like themselves on one drug and then felt like themselves on other drugs too. My understanding is if they find the right drug for you, that you tend to feel like yourself, but again it's a lot of trial and error to do that. I have heard that Lexapro and Zoloft are the safest SSRI's but don't know if that's true, but many drs find those first. If you decide to try anti-depressants (I know you have but not for depression and you didn't feel like yourself), I'd suggest if you don't feel like you tell your dr so they can switch you and work on finding one where you feel like yourself. It took me many years to try drugs. It's not an easy decision to make I know and only you can make it. I hope whether you try drugs or not that you feel better, because if you're thinking about drugs you're probably not feeling great. Best wishes!
I do occasionally have bouts of depression and I used to suffer clinical depression, however I refused to take drugs for it.
I cope, I am generally pretty happy, but sometimes I feel down, as does everyone from time to time.
I am just interested in the drugs, my ex was on them and had a lot of trouble with everything from mood to sleep. They had her on a cocktail, half the drugs were to counter the side effects of the other drugs.
Hopefully such information can help people make a somewhat educated choice.
It scares me to see docs over subscribing psych drugs to young children with no plans to wean them off the drug.
Thank you for sharing and for your care and consideration. All the best. :)
You're welcome. I'm sorry to hear about your having gone through clinical depression and your occasional bouts of depression. Depression is so painful. I am glad you are able to cope and are generally happy :). I'm glad I could help in terms of giving you my experience to others. I do have a master's in Counseling Psychology and I am a Counselor in a school, but obviously I can't prescribe medications nor am I any expert on them nor was I trained in medications at all. However, I'm glad my experience on meds and my understanding of how they're supposed to work correctly (not that they always do and not that my understanding is necessarily correct even), could be of use to others and I hope others will post too. Having lots of information is helpful in making a decision. I know that the person who convinced me to try meds (I was very against trying them at one time), said to me if you had diabetes would you not take your insulin. I know it's kind of an apples to orange comparison in some ways, but in other ways, I think that person was trying to say to me "yeah if you're sick and you're not getting better and there's something else you can try, maybe consider trying." I do hope to go off one day, but I'm scared for the reasons I already stated. I'm glad I started this survey, because I think it led to some helpful discussion. I completely agree with you that kids are sometimes over-medicated and plans to wean off sometimes are not there. It's should be a last resort to put kids on meds because they need their liver for a long time. However, there are kids who have psychosis who need it young in my opinion and there are other kids who do need it as a last resort for other reasons. In my opinion, at times they can be weened off and a plan should be made and at times they can't because they are too sick without them. The same with adults in my opinion. It's a really complicated issue.
Yes, I take Zyprexa, Trilafon, Lexapro, Ativan, and Topamax. Diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia, Depression NOS, and Anxiety NOS.
Im currently on concerta for adhd but i was on lexapro and prozac to work as an anti stimulant... I had suicidal side effects with the lexapro and the prozac didnt do anything for me.
I take zyperxa, lithium, duloxatine and modafinil. Diagnosed with schizoaffective, aspergers and adhd
I was on Citalopram once. (Celexa) I was quite out of character. I went off on some kid in a parking lot about the struggles of being the oldest child in a house with a McDonald's working single mother and so he shouldn't judge me so harshly... It was... fuckin awkward. So I stopped taking it. Never had an outburst like that before or after. Some people should feel overly cautious about what they say and think. Anxiety has helped shape me as a person. It taught me patience and understanding. My give a shit was completely gone without it.
I'm not on any psych meds but I know few people who have been and it saved them, they were a complete mess before, dropped out of school b.c it was to much anxiety and feeling overwhelmed he couldn't be around s groups of people even friends and family or look ANYONE in the eyes, they couldn't hold a job for more than a few days b.c he thought everyone was staring or talking about him, he tried everything therapy, psychologist ,councilor even the homeopathic remedies but nothinf would work