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.
I think everyone in psychology should have to take a short course of the psych drugs, even a low dose, just to know what they are prescribing.
I guess I had the option of "fixing myself". I did a lot of reading, soul searching and such.. and I came out on top. If it didn't work, I was prepared to take medication to "take the edge off".
I agree with you on the way children are medicated, some need it.. Unfortunately, I believe they are massively over prescribed across the board. The west pops pills like candy, a cure for what ail's ya.
I would like to know what kind of dependency the brain forms on the meds, however as we do not completely understand the action that is not possible at this time.
This changed everything for me. http://vimeo.com/15301537
Are you on any psychiatric drugs?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Thank you :)
I think everyone in psychology should have to take a short course of the psych drugs, even a low dose, just to know what they are prescribing.
I guess I had the option of "fixing myself". I did a lot of reading, soul searching and such.. and I came out on top. If it didn't work, I was prepared to take medication to "take the edge off".
I agree with you on the way children are medicated, some need it.. Unfortunately, I believe they are massively over prescribed across the board. The west pops pills like candy, a cure for what ail's ya.
I would like to know what kind of dependency the brain forms on the meds, however as we do not completely understand the action that is not possible at this time.
This changed everything for me. http://vimeo.com/15301537