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Posted by sebastian on January 2, 2003, at 19:35:57
Hi!
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.
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.
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.
Can anyone relate, I'm sure you can. I just feel so helpless.
Sebastian
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.
>
> 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
Posted by Sebastian on January 3, 2003, at 9:54:14
In reply to Re: Depression from meds, posted by mikhail99 on January 3, 2003, at 9:14:49
So, does it ever go away or am I in for the life time bid?
Posted by mikhail99 on January 3, 2003, at 10:16:32
In reply to Re: Depression from meds, posted by Sebastian on January 3, 2003, at 9:54:14
I'm not qualified to say. I think the best we can do is take it day by day. Just remember, you're not alone.
Take care!
Mik
Posted by Noa on January 3, 2003, at 18:14:27
In reply to Re: Depression from meds » Sebastian, posted by mikhail99 on January 3, 2003, at 10:16:32
Way back when I used to think of meds as "temporary" but now it is just a fact of life for me.
But every once in a while, I feel a little pissed off at having to take so many meds every day. It can be a pain sometimes.
There is the timing of the various meds--some have to be taken with food, some cannot be taken with food, some are once a day, some are twice a day, some are taken in the morning, some at night, etc. etc. So, this has to be taken into account in planning and organizing my day.
Then there is the refilling the scrips--this takes time and energy and organizational skills (which I am weak in). And I can never seem to get my meds on the same refill schedule!
Not to mention that although I have a long-term, temporary truce with the side effects, once in a while I do really resent them! But I maintain the truce (as long as the adverse effects are kept in check somewhat), hoping that eventually, newer, better meds will emerge that will help me be rid of these adverse effects.
I certainly can't say for you, but I kind of think for myself it is likely that I'll be on some meds for the rest of my life. I used to really rebel against that, and it does make me really sad sometimes. Oh well. I've come to see that for me, it beats the alternative, that is for sure.
Mikhail said it with the taking it day by day. I hold out hope for new, inovative, more effective. and less annoying treatments sometime in my lifetime. But in the meantime, this is what there is, and it is far better than the alternative.
Posted by panda on January 15, 2003, at 11:08:04
In reply to Depression from meds, posted by sebastian on January 2, 2003, at 19:35:57
HI eveyone
Have u ever think of other form of treatement along with medication such as psychological therapy or other alternative medical therapies such as acupuncture. I myself is under medication for now 21 months and i also have tried to get rid of the medications by myself as i've been told by my psy i may need medic foe life-time as diabetics. That i don't think as from Sept 02 i'm having psychological therapy and that has help me to cope with my frequent panic attack, muscle pains headaches, nervosity, and insomnia. I don't say medication is not needed, but it's only an aid for us to get along our daily life but unfortunately these meds have a lot of side effects that looks like symptoms of depression. That makes us ask ourself whether it's the side effects or the illness!!!But remember we have to be strong and only psychological therapy can do that and also cure the thing that trigger the depression. Meds are only an aid only that and we need it for some time. Be patient and learn how to cope with it and then get rid of meds.
Good luck and be strong.
Panda.
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