Posted by linkadge on July 23, 2010, at 16:12:44
In reply to Re: toxic crap, posted by TenMan on July 23, 2010, at 14:52:50
I don't have lifelong chronic depression. I probably have either bipolar disorder or recurrent brief depression. I can go weeks at a time feeling ok, only to lapse for a few weeks.
If a drug gets me well, I just end up saying "wait a minute, I felt normal like this 3 weeks ago, and I wasn't taking anything. Then I stop the med, because it seems crazy to be ingesting something with these side effects.
My profession demands that I simply can't be forgetting what I am saying mid sentence.
The nortriptyline was also really screwing up my field of vision. First of all, it makes colors look faded and less vibrant. Nextly it makes objects lose their shape (I know this sounds weird, but it made objects look like they were colapsing). Also it makes things look like they are coming in on me, kind of how salvia felt, perhaps cause nortriptyline interacts with kappa receptors.
Anyhow, it just does not feel healthy. I keep saying this can't be good for my brain. Other effects invlude: Strange food cravings, flatulance that smells like lumburgar cheese, sleep attacks, the feeling of being controlled by an external force, the feeling of being watched, sleeping 13 hours a day, irritability, feeling heavy, stupor (blank staring for like 10 min).
Sure, it'd be great if I was trying to pass the time in prison, or a retirement home.
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