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Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on January 6, 2010, at 22:45:35
I'm going to blog about this:
The mind adapts to what ever antidepressant there is...see i feel the same when I was on 20mg of Prozac and right now i'm on a higher dose of it.
Antidepressants do nothing if you are not depressed, they just bring you back to normal. MAOI antidepressant's are diffrent, and more potent.
What antidepressant is there? Effexor...does it have any mood improvement? I've read it is awful when withdraw...
One more thing I see my posts I put and I could just not look at them because I wrote them on impluse.
Anyways, my point like 80mg of Prozac is 'somewhat' noticable, but it loses it's potency as the years go by.
Posted by inanimate peanut on January 7, 2010, at 12:09:45
In reply to Higher doses of antidepressants, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on January 6, 2010, at 22:45:35
I don't think antidepressants are supposed to do anything if you're normal. It's not like they're supposed to cause a high or anything. Even MAOIs won't cause you to be anything above normal (unless they make you manic, which causes it's own world of trouble). The goal of all antidepressants is to normalize mood.
Posted by Phillipa on January 7, 2010, at 13:31:16
In reply to Re: Higher doses of antidepressants, posted by inanimate peanut on January 7, 2010, at 12:09:45
So if high anxiety is the problem no help? Phillipa
Posted by inanimate peanut on January 7, 2010, at 16:51:23
In reply to Re: Higher doses of antidepressants » inanimate peanut, posted by Phillipa on January 7, 2010, at 13:31:16
No, I wasn't talking about them not helping anxiety, which I think some of them do. I didn't get the sense that the original post was about treating anxiety, but rather about finding a high above depression. Maybe I understood it wrong. I don't know much about medications for anxiety. I grind my teeth constantly, but that's really the only anxiety symptom I have consistently right now. I had panic attacks but the Parnate took them away.
Posted by Meltingpot on January 9, 2010, at 14:03:05
In reply to Higher doses of antidepressants, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on January 6, 2010, at 22:45:35
Hi,
I actually don't agree. I have taken antidepressants just for a very short while when I wasn't depressed (I was just curious about how I would feel) and they did lift my mood higher. I definitely felt different on them, more energy, more talkative. So I think even if you are feeling normal they can lift you higher.
Denise
Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on January 9, 2010, at 20:09:47
In reply to Re: Higher doses of antidepressants, posted by Meltingpot on January 9, 2010, at 14:03:05
they block reptake of serotonin/NE/DA like cocaine....only to a very much less extent.
Wellbutrin perks people up, i've read that in articles, but also increases anxiety. Prozac psyches you up, but I also read it caused violence in some.
I noticed Prozac when the first couple years of taking it, caused some hypomania. But adapted to it.
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