Posted by mikhail99 on January 3, 2003, at 9:14:49
In reply to Depression from meds, posted by sebastian on January 2, 2003, at 19:35:57
> Hi!
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> Does anyone get depressed just from taking their meds? Knowing you need them just to make it by, or else you will just fall apart.
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> I don't enjoy this need for my medicine. I feel like I'm addicted to them. I have tried to get off meds in the past many times and every time I fall into worser depressions.
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> You take them and start feeling better, so you stop, then it all comes back, and you need them again. I would like to just get better and that would be the end of it, no more meds, doctors, etc.
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> Can anyone relate, I'm sure you can. I just feel so helpless.
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> Sebastian
Oh hell yeah, I think most of us can relate. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to go without medication only to drag myself back for help. It's funny you posted about this subject because I've been thinking about it AGAIN! Fortunately, I'm very close to a sister who is a psychiatric nurse (who also takes AD) and when I tell her this stuff, she is really good about asking me why in the hell would I want to do that? :-) I guess I always think that since I'm in therapy, maybe it's a good time to try (while I'm writing this, an advertisment for paxil just came on tv, how ironic is that?) it without meds, that the therapy has helped me move beyond my depression. HA!I think we have to look at our illnesses as chronic, like diabetes and remember that to keep ourselves happy (ha again) and healthy, medication may be what we have to do. I wish I had something more encouraging to offer but since medical science still knows so little about the brain, that's what we're left with.
Instead of feeling helpless, try looking at taking meds and seeing a doc as a way of taking control of your illness.
For what it's worth...
Take care!
Mik
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