Davechaos, I totally understand your feelings about medication and respect your views on it.
I do think that these meds have over the years improved due to scientific research, particularly those for anxiety/depression. If you manage to get one that suits you it can be very beneficial.
I'm not saying that's the road to go down but a good GP will discuss all the implications and of course with the internet so much easier to make an informed choice.
Sorry to hear work is so stressful, employers seem to want so much more these days.

Thanks for the kind words.

It is one of the things with me that going to the doctors may well require me to ask for help...and I am not sure that I could do that. It has been a very long educational year...and I have been doing these three jobs for two years now. I still don't think I need any help from the doctor...I speak to my counsellor once a week and that helps...although of course the draw back with that is that it is upsetting.

If I feel like this in a few weeks time when I have finished they I will ask for help...I will have to because I am assuming you lot will nag me to death lol.

Please do.

I am in the same boat as Davechaos.

I took meds two times in my life. First time after my aunt died. That day after I took the meds, I felt like I was paralyzed, I could not move a limb. I guess that med gave me a bad reaction. The second time was at my uncle's funeral. I was angry that he died, I did not think it was fair, he had a heart attack one month before his wedding and I started crying hysterically when I saw his coffin. So I was offered some meds to calm down. They made me sleep all day long. So depression meds don't really help me , they only knock me out. lol.

After that I did not take any meds cause I also saw other people taking it like Dave did and it did not do them good.

This post was last modified: 07-01-2008 09:16 AM by ClosetGeek.

Am sorry you have got stuck on them sleepflower. I can understand how addicting something is only cos I used to smoke cigarettes and it took a lot for me to quite them. But where would you be with out this meds. I mean OK now your trying to come of them but there was a reason you started taking them. some ppl with out this meds may not even be here. I would say in that sort of case its better to be addicted then to not have gone on them.

Yeah, Sleepflower is right. They are not easy to get off of. I tried them at some point to curve my anxiety and ended up just dumping the stupid medications altogether when they wouldn't allow me to get a restful good night's sleep.

I was on 75mg of Zoloft and that gave me horrific dreams for about 5 or so days when I just stopped taking it altogether. And that was a low dose. And other medications I've tried just make me feel detached from myself (if that makes any sense). Which would explain why people tend to become more depressed on certain medications.

The science behind these medications doctors admit they don't really know much about (and what they do know could be completely wrong from what the medications really do).

my shrink prescribed me Lexapro. after taking it for about 6 months, it completely made me dizzy at times, tiring(had to take it for work in the morning), drowsiness(started after i started taking Lexapro), WORSE depression and still not being able to sleep.

later on i did a little research and found out that my shrink prescribed me a drug that has the same side effect as my symptom....then i stopped and everything is back to normal, only i have mild insomnia now... im scared to take any anti depressants now fearing its gonna make me crazy again.

Change your GP - seriously

Is it just me or would Anti depressants actually make you more depressed? i mean to be physically taking them would take its toll on your state of mind, and like any drug you end up needing to take more and more just to feel normal. Drugs arnt the answer.

Well I think when you get that far down what ever your taking is not going to be to much of a concern just as long as your feeling better then be for. At lest they are given to you by a doctor and not some drug dealer.

And hopefully the doctor would know best