pretty sad when drugs are required to "feel good"...."have fun"....."relax"........
That's sorta how I feel about working most of your life to get the money you need to pay others with in order to live. Somethings just are apparently.
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But in relation to Prozac being crap, yeah I could see that. In fact all anti-depressants are crap if you ask me and I'll explain why shortly.
But first, I too was thrown in that lovely world of where they tell you you have a disease and you have to load up with these pills to fix your problems. After about a year or more looking for a steady job, the ex's mother dieing a week before x-mas and dealing with all that, plus money woes up the arse till it's green..... I was feeling a bit down to say the least. I wasn't eating properly, I wasn't sleeping properly, I was constantly dwelling on the current problems of my life at that time non stop, forever trying to solve those problems. I eventually got to the point where I was so stressed out I had no color in my skin, I was well below my recommended weight, and my back was knotted up with so much stress, I couldn't sit up properly for a long period of time without feeling crippled.
So then eventually I got thrown on anti'D's and was on them for about a year and then went off them. One good thing about them was that they helped me see the differences between how I was before the pills compared to how I was on them. They helped for the first half of the year, but I was still getting pissy, and eventually I learned that these pills wern't solving the problems I was dwelling on.... I just no longer cared about the problems. That didn't solve the problems.
Doctors and the Px companies are always telling us depression is a mental illness. Guess what? Humans are supposed to get mad and pissed off once in a while.... we're supposed to be depressed over some things in our lives..... hell, that's how we know something is wrong and something is bothering us. If you're depressed, find out what's causing it and try and address it.... don't load up with pills and expect things to get better.
I also bet these anti-D's have a good connection to these fools who go shooting around in their schools. Most were on mental-illness medications and most went off them around the time they shot up their schools. Knowing that mentality when I was younger and knowing what it can be like when I missed my meds when I was on them, all would be needed is the following mentality to follow through with the above actions:
• Parents and doctors telling you that you have a mental illness and the things that have been making you depressed in school (Students/bullies, low marks, not fitting in, overall outsider) are not due to others, but your mental illness.
• This gives the kid a thought process that everybody else is perfectly fine and there is something wrong with them, which is why they are put on med.
• They lose most of their usual emotions, they no longer feel like the person they knew themselves as.
• The marks still are low, you're still an outsider, the students and bullies are still arseholes, and if they learn you're on meds, or that perhaps they were the reason why you're on them, then they increase their actions and make things even worse, as it's entertainment for them and makes them feel better about their lives, like most typical bullies and popular students.
• The kid in question now has even more problems after the meds then they did before them, they no longer know who they are and then in that teenage mentality, they stop taking the meds to go back to the way they were (Figuring it was better)
• Pulling off their meds without working off them, the side effects and emotions pull in like a pile of bricks, one small thing occurs in school, or the bullies just have a good day with you, and all of a sudden, you snap.
• You then figure if everybody else is perfect and you're the one with the problem, then you'll make sure they have a problem too..... grab the guns head to school, shoot everyone and then yourself as you can no longer live with this screwed up world.
It isn't directly the anti-d's fault for this situation, as most of these problems have been going on most of their lives.... but the anti-d's if anything.... were the detinator.
I personally feel if parents actually parented these kids, people took some time to listen to other's problems and possibly help them, and stopped trying to ignore our human emotions in which we were born with, then most of this crap wouldn't have occured in the first place. But with parents working most days and the busy lives we live today, who has the time? So the easiest method is to listen to the Px companies who issue these things and feel it's a quick fix.
But hey... they're the professionals.... why not trust them?
The reason why I believe most of the above, is because I have had depression all my life, suicidal between grades 5-6.... and all that good stuff. My parents, brother, sister, everybody I knew had problems in their lives.... but we delt with them and moved on without drugs. I now know that if I ever get depressed like I did again, that I will never go back to anti-depressants.
I can not directly say they didn't help me any, as I mentioned before, they did help for the first few months (By masking the problems and making me just not really care) But considdering the risks and side effects.... I'd much rather society learn to talk to one another like human beings then to pill us all up to just accept our lives as they are.
