Posted by linkadge on June 2, 2006, at 20:02:11
In reply to Re: opioids for depression, posted by willyee on June 2, 2006, at 17:32:55
Unless you've been off meds for a fair length of time, you don't really know if you are addicted or not.
Attitudes can change *dramtically* when somebody decides to quit. Even people who know me on this board, know there was the AD me, and me now.
The AD me was all pro-AD. I felt they had saved my life, and would never have said a bad word about them.
A lot of people will have to be on these meds for life, not because they need them for life, but because withdrawl is too excruciating. The longer you take AD's, the more your brain moulds itself around them, the more it cannot function normally without them.
Depression does not last forever. It almost always remits. Patients are told they will need to take their meds for life not because they actually do need them for life, but because doctors feel its easier to tell them that, then have to watch them withdrawl.
I am a totally different person off the meds. I've never beed so bitter, so jaded, so hatefull and so depressed. 10x worse than I ever knew before medications, and its prolonged too. My serotonergic system just doesn't know how to work on its own anymore. People wonder why I am so obsessed with studies about possible serotonergic neurotoxicity, well this is why. When you feel like this, you start to wonder what in hell you did to yourself.
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