Posted by raisinb on August 27, 2008, at 16:30:10
In reply to if you can envision a day that you'll be off meds., posted by obsidian on August 26, 2008, at 22:25:26
I'm thinking I would have to experiment with being off them, then get back on if necessary. Which would suck, but I'd have to keep the option open. With meds, I've been very successful at changing negative thinking and making progress in therapy. I hope one day, I'll have gotten so good at this I won't need meds. But the problem is that I've never been able to change like that until I started antidepressants. I'm starting to think about whether I simply inherited major depression (my father and several other relatives have a history of depression and suicidality) and I just need them. I don't know. The whole thing is so complex that it's impossible to tell.
Right now, to tell the truth, I'm doing well on my meds (very well, the best I've done in years) so I have no incentive to quit them. And I doubt I will unless I a)want to get pregnant, or b) start experiencing poop-out or horrible side effects.
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