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My best friend just started taking antidepressants. I've noticed a lot of people seem to be familiar with antidepressants and antipsychotics. How many of you have needed these types of drugs? Is it normal to use these types of drugs?
| I take them | 54 | |
| I use to take them but don't anymore | 21 | |
| I think I need them | 9 | |
| I take them occassonally | 3 | |
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I took an anti depressant and I didn't feel it did anything positive so I stopped.
I have a form of bi-polar so for me to go without my medication is horrible for my friends and family. sure being manic is non-stop fun, but it's not to everyone else.
I have Bi Polar, Depression and severe OCD. I am 21, been on medication for 3 yrs...If you saw the person I was before I got on medication and the person I am now, it would blow your mind. Medication doesn't help everyone, but for me it definately improved my life by a lot.
I'm usually on 5 or 6 different kinds of medication, depending on what kinds I find on the floor or who's bottle I find laying around. I figure no one is going to take something bad for them, so if I take their medication it will probably cure what I don't know I have.
I dont take phamaceuticals, I research what herbs to take for any ailment I have. plus preventitive health foods and teas. (like green tea, almonds, dandelion tea, rose hip tea, spinach, etc) and I exercise and never consume processed foods. I dont need a doctor!
It pleases me very much to hear this. Pharmacuticles are far more limited in their healing capacity than nature itself.
Dandelion is one of my favorite herbs. It grows in such abundance and offers us much strength. It is hearty and tough. It's a shame so many people view it as a weed and something to eliminate.
I don't take them, but I've had 3 or 4 friends in the past on Prozac. Teenage years and depression seem to go hand in hand.
I have Borderline PD, Dysthymia, and social anxiety. If it wasn't for my medication, and my boyfriend and his mothers support, I would be on the street, dead, or doing meth.
The only people who say "No one needs to be on meds" are either in denial, or have never had any mental disorders.
My therapist makes me take them but I don't really feel like I need them.
Im on a lot of stuff....20mg of lexapro, 150mg of wellbutrin, and 100 mg of seroquel.....im kind of fucked up in the head, lol
I'm on about 7 or 8 different medications right now. I'm taking one for depression, one for osteoporosis, one for thyroid, the list goes on and on.... :(
I've been recommended for them but I refuse to take em, too many addictions in my family already...
I take 3 different psychiatric medications, one for anxiety, one for OCD/depression and an anti-psychotic. All three of these medications have improved my quality of life enormously and I would probably be in an institution or worse if I hadn't started taking them when I did.
I was given antidepressants at the age of 10 >.> someone please tell me how does a child of that age have to take pills to cure "depression"?
I wouldn't be so damn depressed if I was allowed to be myself and if my mom would stop cross dressing me and thinking that I made an adorable son.
Without the intervention of my then psychiatrist and his prescribing me Fluoxetine, I would be dead by now and I'm not being overdramatic either.
Some people are strong enough to survive without anti-depressants but I wasn't and I'm glad to be here today. And just because they caused a certain effect on you, doesn't equate to them having the same effect on everyone else.
Without antidepressants I would never have done anything with my life and chances are very, very high that I wouldn't even be alive.
I started taking anti-depression at the age of 15, and over the years my amount of pills has more than doubled. I also get a bit for sleeping on, and when I get a nervous breakdown I get some anti-psychotic. And I can tell you, that I have never been happier. I tried to kill my self twice, before they gave me pills, and a month after, I felt a bit of happiness for the first time in years.
Of course, I have been questioning if the drugs have changed who I am, but my parents tell me that I am more like I were before I got depressed. The pills didn't alter my mind or anything, they just put a lid on all my feelings. So yeah, you can question if children should /need/ medication at all, but you can't question my recovery. It's all real!