Nameless Dread

[Anonymous]

Yeah. Wouldn't want to offend the 'good ones!'

[Sicktodeathmx]

A mod should take out that pic from Black guy's sig.

[Brandon]

To steer this away from the comic genius that is Blackguy..

SSRIs (I've taken Prozac and Zoloft) haven't helped at all with the problem, and I've been in and out of therapy for a few years. I wasn't expecting an outright cure, but I was given some cognitive strategies to deal with maladaptive thoughts.

Still.. it's very easy to slip back into old habits.

[Supafly345]

Originally Posted by Blackguy

Tru dat tru dat.

STOP STEALING MY SLANGUAGE, MONEY. DATS WACK YO.

[kellychaos]

Originally Posted by Sicktodeathmx

A mod should take out that pic from Black guy's sig.

I will not stand idly by whilst this site is stained with the vile juices of political correctness. Out damn spot!

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by ArtificialBrandon

To steer this away from the comic genius that is Blackguy..

SSRIs (I've taken Prozac and Zoloft) haven't helped at all with the problem, and I've been in and out of therapy for a few years. I wasn't expecting an outright cure, but I was given some cognitive strategies to deal with maladaptive thoughts.

Still.. it's very easy to slip back into old habits.

Maybe you should ask your psych to try another kind of meds? :/

[Sicktodeathmx]

I have been treated for Manic depression for almost 9 years now. They have put me on Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Paxill, Prozac, Paxill agan, and now Wellbutrin again... Plus endless hours of therapy. It doesn't work. I don't get any pleasure from the therapy, and after a few months, the meds stop working.

[Mike P]

Do they keep you on the same dosage of meds, or do they up the dosage? For my meds, they put me on ever-increasing dosage until they were sure they worked.

[Sicktodeathmx]

I would start off at a low dosage (150 mg Wellbutrin).. They increased my dosage to 450. Didn't work after a while. I ended up on 80 mg of Prozac, and 50 of Paxill, and it didn't work after a while.

[Mike P]

Wow... perhaps there are some outside forces that are negatively affecting you and lowering the effectiveness of the meds?

[Sicktodeathmx]

Well, that used to be the case.. And my friend's and my psch blame my parents, so I am moving out soon. Hopefully that will help me flourish and become happy again. That's something I really need to experience.. Independence.

[Big Papa Goat]

feelevil gonna bust a cap in yo ass.

[Skulhedface]

I was always depressed, and guess what?

I took no drugs for it. It's a normal part of being human so you know, I took care of it the old fashioned way. I dealt with it.

[Schimid]

BUT THEIR DEPRESSION IS SO MUCH WORSE

DON'T TRY TO CHANGE THEM SKUL

[Skulhedface]

In that case... I have a handful of pills I'll sell someone for $30.

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Skulhedface

I was always depressed, and guess what?

I took no drugs for it. It's a normal part of being human so you know, I took care of it the old fashioned way. I dealt with it.

*ahem*
Clinical depression is different than the depression most people deal with. It is a medical condition, not simply a valley in the hills and valleys of life.

[Anonymous]

DRUGS ARE NOT THE ANSWER

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by Doopa

DRUGS ARE NOT THE ANSWER

Y'know, the more I think about antidepressants, the more I begin to question their merit. I have to wonder how much of their usefulness is based off of placebo effect: the people I knew who wanted Prozac to work felt better on it, and the people who were resistant experienced no change.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by ArtificialBrandon

Y'know, the more I think about antidepressants, the more I begin to question their merit. I have to wonder how much of their usefulness is based off of placebo effect: the people I knew who wanted Prozac to work felt better on it, and the people who were resistant experienced no change.

Paxil seems to work. I'm terribly pessimisstic about everything that concerns me, yet the medicine worked. Of course, that's just me. I'm sure quite a few "medicines" are based on the placebo effect, though.

[Protoclown]

Drugs are almost CERTAINLY ridiculously overprescribed, regardless of your stance on the issue. They are too often doled out as a quick fix to a problem that they don't really help, but merely distract from instead. In some cases they may very well help, but in many others they are definitely inappropriate.

I've known a lot of people who have been on anti-depressant drugs (prozac, paxil, etc) and many of them have told me they'd rather be depressed than carry on as the emotional zombies they were while under the effect of the drug. Is it better to feel sad than feel nothing at all? Apparently, to these people anyway.

[Brandon]

People are placing a lot of blind faith in medication, I notice. In discovering the link between chemical imbalances and mood disorders, I think a lot of professionals completely excluded the possibilty of developmental and environmental factors.

Take social anxiety for example. While biochemistry may play a role in increasing/decreasing one's succeptibility to anxious feelings, the idea that fear in social situations is without an cognitive component is utterly absurd.

[Anonymous]

this country is full of addicts

[kellychaos]

I'm on the fence on this one. While I don't know about administering psychotropic drugs for EVERY little thing, I've also done some reading about sanitariums and how the medical establishment used to deal with mental health. Pretty gruesome techniques, methinks.

[Dole]

There is nothing more satisfying than when SHIT CHARACTERS get genuinely annoyed and post out of character:

"All right, you dont have to milk it, I think we can all sense your scarcasm."

Hehe. and is 'scarcasm' a more hurtful version of sarcasm?

[Dole]

...and it never ceases to amaze me how many of the people here are on medication. If this is representative of america's youth generally then its no wonder the drug companies make such obscene amounts of money.