Posted by pseudoname on June 1, 2006, at 10:15:10 [reposted on June 3, 2006, at 1:45:07 | original URL]
In reply to Going off all meds for good, posted by katie san diego on May 31, 2006, at 19:06:30
Hey, katie.
> Has anyone gone off all meds completely as a final solution?
> is it possible to live without these meds?I think it happens all the time.
I wouldn't call it a FINAL solution, though. There's no reason such a decision has to be irreversible.
I tried about 3 dozen meds & med combos 1987-2005 for unipolar depression. NONE of them were effective. I gave up the med search several times and went without meds for years at a time. I was not any better in the med-free periods, but I wasn't any worse, and I didn't have the side effects, the cost, and the emotional wringer of getting my hopes dashed again & again.
But I'm happy to report that I went "back to the pharmacy" (so to speak) last year and finally got an antidepressant that really worked for me! And it's been working for about 6 months.
So I know it's sometimes possible to find an effective med. But it's also not the end of the world (at least for nonpsychotic, non-ADHD, unipolar depressives) to go without *in*effective meds.
> have all those years on the prozac changed my brain permanently? … Can my brain adjust back?
You've already been off Prozac for a while, right?
BTW, the American Psychiatric Association convention is in San Diego next year. If Dr Bob does another seminar at it about Babble, you can commute! :-)
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