Posted by Squiggles on May 31, 2007, at 11:14:07
I would appreciate any words of advice
on a personal problem i have. My friend
is preparing to drop all drugs. She is
suffering from Major Depression which is
chronic. Every time she dropped her drugs
she became suicidally depressed, with two
suicide attempts which i had to intervene
and alarm her doctors and take her to the ER.This is endogenous depression of the worst kind.
Unfortunately, the drug soups she has taken have all been unbearable, so now she has a plan to drop the major AD and maybe take a Xanax for anxiety, because she has self-diagnosed herself as really having nothing more than anxiety.
She has also declined her doctor's advice to see a hospital therapist, and has gone to a counsellor who "listens" (on the advice of an anti-psychiatry buddy). This counsellor has said that he cannot do anything about her medical condition except perhaps call her dr. if she gets suicidal. This is a private practice. In the meantime the therapy has been a discussion about childhood experiences, etc.
I am ready to have a nervous breakdown myself. I am so afraid i will lose my beloved friend to suicide, due to the stupidity and lack of psychopharmacological intervention. All i get is, you can't make a person do something against their will, stopping a drug after 15 yrs. may or may not be a good thing for depression (this is not what i have read on PubMed; on PubMed you can expect akathisia, neuroleptic syndrome, severe depression and anxiety and cognitive problems).
I am at my wit's end. I cannot convince this person that life problems can only get worst without meds. And there are no big life problems, just drug problems. I don't know what to do. Why isn't anybody worried about this except me?
Please help me with some advice.
Thank you.
poster:Squiggles
thread:760534
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