Anti-depressants

Riyko

Riyko

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Apr 29, 2006
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Oakville, Ontario
I haven't read through all of the pages, but i thought i'd give my input and my experience with depression. I have really bad depression and I was given anti depressants to take, I took them for 2 months, but they made me feel so much worse and instead of helping it made my depression worse. It also made me feel that my happiness was fake. I was taking Celexa.

Depression runs in my family, but mine gets so bad that I feel like I want to die and if I don't have someone to talk to or help me out I will hurt myself it's consistant cutting my arms, but it's in the same spot. I don't feel comfortable talking to a therapist or a doctor, I would rather talk to my best friend about what's going on because he helps me out alot. I could take anti depressants again, but I don't want to experience what I did over again.

I've had an aunt commit suicide partly because of the depression and she was on meds when she did it. When I was on the meds I couldn't really eat or sleep, I was always so scared and having nightmares. I'm doing better now, I still get depressed and it gets really bad, but i'm better at handling it now with people to listen, but I don't tell that person everything.
 
temperance

temperance

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Sep 27, 2006
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Self, may I ask how many different medications did you have to try before getting to "L "(the med that helps) If this is too personal I do apologize ,and no need to answer --sorry
I just wanted another opinion

I wonder if all the trial of different meds hurts a person ?


I have a good friend I check in on ,he has Schizophrenia , over the years he tried so many different combo meds ,finally after 20 years he is basically stable every two weeks he gets injections RISPERDAL CONSTA --long acting --

I haven't seen him this happy in 24 years ---he was a untiversity professor before his wife [passed then everything went to H E double tooth pick

But when he was only getting the injection once a month ,by then end of the month he was in trouble
 
selfactivated

selfactivated

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Apr 11, 2006
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I keep a copy of my medical charts and it says here that in 2000 I was taking Depracote, clozapam, Nefazone, Prilocect, singular, allegra, Ultram and Neurontin.....DAILY! Its a miricle my brain matter semi-survived. The shrink I had was a county employee and had been at his job over 25 years. Pharmasuticals (sp) went in and out of his office and the pill de jour was tried by all. Im told by my Shrink now that any med should be ongoing 6 weeks before you see any results and then adjusted, after that every three months reevaluated. Im on 1200 mg Lithium and 400 seraquil for 4 years now. Other than situational stress (like my sons death) Ive done better than I have in my life. BUT everyone is different and everyone needs to have good dialog with their shrink.
 
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