Posted by lp on October 5, 2000, at 17:37:07
In reply to Re: 1st time taking an anti-depressant » cmm, posted by T~ on October 5, 2000, at 11:00:02
cmm-
I've never been on this board before but recently started taking wellbutrin and have the exact feelings you do. I was looking for some answers and what you wrote is almost identical to what I was thinking.I too am not sure if I should be on something or not. I feel better just knowing there's someone else out there who has the same feelings that I do. My friends think I am absolutely ridiculous to take anti-depressants. I've never even told my parents, who I am very close with. I have always been a happy, upbeat person and it's hard for them to come to even imagine that I could ever be the slightest bit depressed. My advice to myself is to take it for 6 months and see how things go (I've been on wellbutrin for 1 month now). I don't see anything wrong with attempting to feel better, no matter how "deserving" I am. I may even start taking celexa, who knows.
-lp> > One thing I've been wondering about, though - my doctor said that I should contact her after taking the pill for six weeks and we would evaluate if I was feeling 100% - what on earth is that? I don't mean to say that I never feel happy, because I do, but I assume the goal of all this isn't to turn me into some Gigit-like nightmare. What I want is to feel good and bad and ambivilent and everything else as situations demand, but I don't know how that would be.
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> > Thanks for your encouragement
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> cmm you are welcome for the encouragement and keep your chin up, things get better, really they do. as far as the doctor wanting to see u in 6 weeks to see if you are 100%, well are any of us really 100%?? even those in society that dont take medication?? the doctor did the same re evaluation w/ me but at the time i rated myself at a 75% < grin >
> what dose are you taking again and are you just taking celexa??
> T~
> :-)
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