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Posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
Hey guys!
We are all searching for one thing, a compound that would fix us, take the depression away, make us feel good, bring relief or how ever you want rephrase it. I personally have for 10 years, i'm 28 now. I mean, how many of you have found what you've been looking for?Deep down i remember how i used to feel when i was younger and sometimes i can recall those memories, if only as a shadow of the actual feeling, but i still can remember the colours and the smells from the actual observation. My understanding of this life is that if you look around without coloring your perceptions with emotion, you may indeed notice that world is really ****ed up.
I just started Effexor and for a few days i have had my feelings back, everything now reminds me of how i felt before the depression (or how ever you want to call it) started, i used to feel alive and now i do again, but i'm pretty sure it fades again as it always does. Have anyone found something that work for them in the long run, i mean like for years?
Good luck!
Posted by gadchik on May 2, 2013, at 11:46:48
In reply to What is your magic pill?, posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
You sound like a wistful-full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy-person. I wish you the best with Effexor. I've lost faith in any pill to last years. I do believe that exercise is the magic pill you speak of. I will admit to ingesting klonopin for almost 5 years now, hoping to keep anxiety at bay. So far, so good. But, I hike everyday, and that could be key in this journey.
Posted by Phil on May 2, 2013, at 12:51:46
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill? » topdog, posted by gadchik on May 2, 2013, at 11:46:48
I've been on the med super-highway for 30 years. Pills work but have to exit, two more enter down the road. One crashed and is replaced by different colored ones, etc.
My treatment has been a stream in constant motion.
The more you can accept how bad this cluster of mental illnesses really is, then you'll be hoping for a magic pill. Some do find it. I read about a guy that had been on Nardil for 20 years and very happy/normal. Nothing worked for him besides that.
I know how you feel about the memories before the pills.
Here's one: My first psychiatrist writing my first script. "We should have this taken care of in 6 months."
29 years and 6 months later.....
Posted by vbs on May 2, 2013, at 13:03:13
In reply to What is your magic pill?, posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
Congrats on finding relief with Effexor. The magic pill for me would completely resolve my psychosis in that I wouldn't hear voices anymore. I take three atypical antipsychotic meds and I still hear the voices off-and-on. They come & go. I was started on Invega Sustenna injections two weeks ago. I'm holding out hope that it will give me relief & fewer psychotic episodes. Anyway, I hope you continue to see improvement. :-)
Posted by Phil on May 2, 2013, at 13:58:56
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill? » topdog, posted by vbs on May 2, 2013, at 13:03:13
Good luck vbs.
Posted by Phillipa on May 2, 2013, at 15:28:04
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill? » vbs, posted by Phil on May 2, 2013, at 13:58:56
Used to be valium & combo of excercise. Now the excercise mostly as benzos not make me tired. Phillipa
Posted by gadchik on May 2, 2013, at 15:48:00
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill?, posted by Phillipa on May 2, 2013, at 15:28:04
P, I felt my best in NYC. Walked all day long, I really mean all day, and up and down subway stairs. Ive never slept so well, and felt so good, no back pain, no neck pain.
Posted by brynb on May 2, 2013, at 18:29:26
In reply to What is your magic pill?, posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
I feel like I've spent the last 10 years of my life searching for the magic pill! I've come to realize there's no such thing, and that addressing my depression should be a truly holistic effort (which is grueling most of the time as it should include exercising, good eating and sleeping habits, getting out, connecting with nature, etc.--all things I find impossible while in my episodes).
That said, Tramadol has been my miracle med this year. It manages to work immediately and I seemingly have no side effects from it. For now, anyway, while not perfect, it's done the job.
My two cents.
-b
Posted by vbs on May 2, 2013, at 18:29:31
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill? » vbs, posted by Phil on May 2, 2013, at 13:58:56
Posted by Hugh on May 3, 2013, at 10:25:15
In reply to What is your magic pill?, posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
I took the muscle relaxant baclofen for muscle spasms in my lower back, and was amazed when it wiped out my depression and anxiety. I had to stop taking it after a week because it started to cause terrible insomnia. Olivier Ameisen wrote a book about baclofen called The End of My Addiction. Ameisen had tried many antidepressants and benzos and rehab and AA. None of them helped much. Then he tried baclofen. When he got to a high enough dose, it eliminated the depression and anxiety that was driving him to drink. He's been taking baclofen for ten years now, and has not developed a tolerance to it.
Posted by Dinah on May 4, 2013, at 11:58:17
In reply to What is your magic pill?, posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
I suppose there may be a magic pill for some people. The closest I've found is low dose Risperdal as needed for my anxiety and obsessive thinking.
But the closest I have found for depression was my Sheltie. She was so filled with joy that it escaped, I think, and spilled over to me. I was thinking about it the other day. Before we got her, I remember telling my husband that I needed something to prod me out of bed and to break into the fog of, I suppose, anhedonia that had remained after the worst of my depression had lifted. She died at a very young age, after an illness of more than a year. But somehow the joy she so generously gave sort of lingered. The few short years I had her were a magic pill of sorts. I don't suppose it will last forever. But it's lasted a while.
Posted by Dinah on May 4, 2013, at 12:59:50
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill?, posted by Dinah on May 4, 2013, at 11:58:17
For the record, I'm not saying a dog is a magic pill. I doubt any dog would work for full blown depression. And I've only had two out of my large number of dogs who I'd say could shift me out of anhedonia or mild depression. Although there was a third who would have made a darn fine therapist...
It was more a reflection on this particular dog and how she changed my recent life.
Posted by vbs on May 4, 2013, at 14:26:11
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill?, posted by Dinah on May 4, 2013, at 12:59:50
I can relate to what your saying, Dinah. I picked up a very friendly stray cat about a year ago. His name is Bigboy. It makes me feel good to take care of him & when I hear him purr.
Posted by gadchik on May 4, 2013, at 18:38:50
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill? » Dinah, posted by vbs on May 4, 2013, at 14:26:11
I love to hear my cat meow, and I didnt think I was a cat person until I walked up to her cage in Petsmart. I didnt think twice about bringing her home.
Posted by Phillipa on May 4, 2013, at 19:01:47
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill?, posted by gadchik on May 4, 2013, at 18:38:50
My first dog and was an adult my Brandy. Was my love P
Posted by Zyprexa on May 17, 2013, at 19:05:12
In reply to Re: What is your magic pill?, posted by Phillipa on May 4, 2013, at 19:01:47
As if you couldn't tell by my name? LOL! But now a close second is coming in, perphenazine. Lately I've tried going off it many times in the past few years and I always go off the deep end. But zyprexa has been the one for 15 years now. I can't live without it. In the last 12 or so years I have not been off it completely for more than 5 days. And that was pure HELL. Now after about 5 years of Perphenazine if I go without for even a few days, I simply can not function along with all the psychotic problems I get.
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