Posted by Hello321 on April 11, 2016, at 10:29:58
In reply to Re: Mad in America, posted by Zyprexa on April 11, 2016, at 6:20:45
> > > I've read the book. Been to the website? They do make valid points, but....I'm kinda getting bored w/ anti-psychiatry.
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> > > I dunno. What do y'all think?
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> > Most people stop taking you seriously if you mention something that the FDA or any other authorities don't agree with. Ive learned my lesson to not bring up some of the most severe effects ive exprienced from psychiatric meds when talking to a psychiatrist. I have a friend who went to a short term inpatient facility, and was prescribed Prozac there. It was his first antidepressant, and when he let the Psychiatrist know that it was causing him to see things, she literally laughed it off and told him Proa
> > And what the heck is the difference between the "withdrawal syndrome" that some experience for years when attempting to stop these meds, and addiction?
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> What I think is the withdraw syndrome, is, you need the med now to live
> Your not addicted, because you don't try to take more and more. You might be mentaly addicted because you need it to function. I've stoped zyprexa for months at a time just to realize I'm not getting better and decide I should go back on it. Not because I'm craving the drug.
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> I feel great some times when I go off zyprexa. Other times I feel like uter crap. Its not something I want to take. I'm just dependant on it. Everything falls apart when I don't take it. The way my life was before taking it.
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> I guess the withdraw is, not feeling right.I am talking about people like the woman in this video who is describing her experience when she tried to stop taking cymbalta.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=srWMvRcHEfs
She's having severe issues that she didn't have before starting cymbalta. She tried to taper off cymbalta, but once she got off it completely, things got terrible for her. Could it not be that cymbalta made her brain adjust to cymbalta in a way that made it unable to function very well without?
People get addicted to nicotine in cigarettes. We recognize that the nicotine has altered their brain in a way that makes them feel that it's near impossible to function without nicotine in their system. Their experience sounds quite like the woman in this video when she tried to stop cymbalta. Also, addiction doesn't require one to have to continuously increase their dose. Smokers don't have to smoke more and more and more. They just get their nicotine to feed their nicotine addicted brain, and then the withdrawals stop.
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