Posted by greg diamond on February 27, 2005, at 15:49:56
In reply to Re: Do We Have A Tolerance for emotion?, posted by banga on February 23, 2005, at 13:56:52
this discussion thread ('do we have a tolerance for emotion?') is amazing. i have been fighting with myself re; the issue of medication, after doing zoloft for 3 years for ocd. i never noticed emotional stunting, although i rarely cried. i did notice a general spaciness, but most of all i appreciated the even-keel it provided when prior to being 'drugged up' i was incapable of calming down and living my life, Ocd would eat up all my days.
i worshipped zoloft for the first year - i just generally felt like myself, i didn't spend all this time on ridiculous obsessions. after going off last year i became depressed for the first time in my life - the ocd never came back (in content anyway) but i was more down and generally anxious too. then i had a nervous breakdown after a breakup and move to a new city.
i am back on zoloft with remeron now, to take the 'edge off of life', so to speak. and i guess the removal of this edge is what we decry here - it's the question in 'listening to prozac', indeed the question about psychotropics in general. at what point are we in true need of them? i guess anything beyond the threshold of severe depression into mania. yet on the other hand, i can afford them now, i am not functioning well without them, and i am also doing cbt. so who knows? i am so open to hearing the argument against them and yes i think they are grossly over-prescribed.
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