So i just found out that my Grandmother, at the age of 62, committed suicide after being on anti-depressants for about 2 weeks.This has been a huge family secret and i'm the first child to find out. All us cousins were told she had died differently. I found out when random tidbits of information I'd heard over the years just clicked. I'm the only 3rd generation family member to know.
Now what I cannot understand, is why my fucking mother thought it was an alright idea to let me start taking anti-depressants at the age of 14. Now I'm 23 years old and have severe anxiety/OCD no emotion, become disillusioned with my friends and family and on triple the dosage I started on! They have taken 9 years of my life away.
If i try to get off, the symptoms are so intense and debilitating I have to get back on them.
Me and my mum are very close but this has floored me.
Doctors prescribing anti-depressants to people under 18 should be against the law. These medications alter how your brain chemicals work and function and this isn't exactly a good idea while your brain is still developing. They are handed out like candy to ill-informed parents.
The only drug more hazardous than anti-depressants is fucking meth
Dylan Campbell
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Jaxson Wood
I agree with you user. These ssri's and the like are ruining our younger generations
Juan Bennett
You need to taper down. And you're gonna have withdrawals. Get under the care of a therapist who's willing to do that with you.
The only psych drugs you should ever consider taking are anti epileptics and antipsychotics. Everything else is like a fucking honey trap, I swear to Christ.
Samuel Williams
Flush that shit down the toilet you weak willed piece of garbage
You don’t need it
You can solve any ‘mental illness’ by training yourself to think in a different way.
Every person I know who’s ever been on antidepressants has turned into a zero-libido zombie with no motivation. Sure you might not feel like jumping off a cliff, but it’s not a life worth living. Your doctor doesn’t know shit, trust your instincts rather than some guy who doesn’t care about your long term mental health.
I can’t stress this enough — flush your mess down the toilet and start making positive changes to your life and your way of thinking. Start lifting. Start jogging. Throw away your computer and TV. Make an effort to socialise. Find a new hobby.
Nicholas Butler
Reminder
Jayden Evans
Meds* not mess
Carter Bailey
You.
Luis Phillips
The tablets have made me weak willed. My whole life was perfect and great until Year 9 when they put me on them.
I am pretty much a zero-libido zombie with no motivation. My instincts tell me these tablets have stolen a decade of my life from me, you're right.
My current plan is check into my mental health clinic, which is the best in the country, and taper down from 60mg of Prozac to 20mg. I'm on 2 other meds but I will be able to get off them soon much easier.
It's the fucking prozac that has me by the balls
James Cooper
Interesting, I'm on a very small dosage of an anti-psychotic. I want to get off it because it's a night medication and it zombifies me about 3 hours after I take it. I don't feel I need it. I want to get back to just Prozac and taper slowly.
Cooper Murphy
Don't go cold turkey, I guarantee you will go into relapse, try to ween yourself off them bit by bit, if the prozac is what has you, then go extra slow with doing that.
Carson Barnes
You were raised by a single mom, weren't you?
I was on meds for a week before I stopped. I could feel them changing the way I thought. It was like thinking through jello. Being aware of it changing my thought patterns was fucked up. It was like a partial death to be on the things. Yes you were alive but your perceptions and thoughts would be altered you were no long the real you.
Lucas Hughes
yeah 5 lines of words sure is a lot to read
Brandon Ross
I’ve been on ssri in the past but I stopped taking them. Has the damage been done?
Oliver Cruz
KYS...you know you should. I did...no big deal...I’m still here and able to post on Sup Forums....see?
Kayden Nelson
Don't try to reduce your dosage completely. Make a step at time.
Nolan Phillips
you cant trust the pharmajew. its all about peddling pills to people and putting a bandaid on the wound without actually curing anything. i deal with some sort of attention disorder but im not going to eat amphetamines every day of my life to get rid of it.
Oliver Howard
Honestly, try tapering off like the other guy said with a medium term goal of getting off them completely
You might find that you can function better without them than you ever did with them especially if you haven’t been off them in 10 years
Also, read/listen to Eckhart Tolle — probably the best advice I could give to anyone, normies and myself included.
Good luck breh
Jackson Perez
Psychiatry as a whole is largely bullshit
Isaac Morales
>psychology
Andrew Cox
When you think about that image, the rational graph is quite possibly the most scathing insult you can give. The person's brain in that image is an asymptote, the equivalent of divide by zero, it [his brain] mathematically cannot exist.
Lincoln Hill
Its all bad sorry user, but the holocaust did happen. Dont believe in conspiratard bullshit. They ((nazis)) have admitted to the killings of the jews, starting with the pozen speech
If your life was so perfect, why did you get on the pills in the first place?
Isaac Parker
My grandparents are in their 90s.
Christian Carter
>grandma took anti-depressants >necked herself >she will not be depressed anymore
The shit works
Camden Watson
Good luck dude
Easton Ross
What's the issue with SSRIs? I wanted to fucking kill myself before, but now that I'm on Prozac I actually have goals for the future. Really they've only had a positive impact. What's the deal?
Jack Gomez
I had the most basic of anxiety (didn't like elevators, heights etc) and i had some anger episodes which were due to me being half Sicilian.
(((They))) thought that was enough to ruin me.
Henry Davis
What dosage are you on? 20mg?
Mason Hall
Thanks bro, just checking his stuff out now.
If you relapse whatever you do, don't give in to taking them again. Go take some valium during the bad episodes and ride it out.
Yeah i'm thinking i'll do a 60mg/40mg split for 3-4 weeks then stay on 40mg. Repeat until 20mg.
Luke Young
Good luck. I sympathize. After having watched many friends and loved ones lose their lives to the pharmajew, I'm hesitant to even use ibuprofen.
Jason Cox
Shit, I had some depression already at age 14 and never got on those pills. In fact, your situation about your grandmother, I found out the exact same brutal truths about mine but at age 13. I was able to put two and two together. Learning that truth, plus some traumatic shit with my dad in HS has left to a lot of lingering depression. I’m a bit older than you. Sometimes I think I should’ve gotten on those pills, but other times I think I would’ve ended up in worse shape than I am. Even though I’ve hit rock bottom before (shutting down in public) I didn’t ask for antidepressants. I guess I hate the idea of getting hooked on something and having side effects. Sometimes I think I should have taken them, but when I hear about how some turn into soulless killers from the pills, I don’t regret it.
Asher Hughes
Eat my dock
Noah Jackson
60 so far.
Owen Reed
doesnt help people with depression at all.
Justin Carter
>due to me being half Sicilian
Aaron Thomas
I stopped taking Effexor 3 months ago. Still have the urinary and stomach problems.
Henry Richardson
that soulless killer thing is purely american. have never heard about it here.
Nolan Long
cute blog post
Landon Sullivan
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Robert Harris
That's the max dosage, be careful. Whatever you do, don't go cold turkey. Taper off slowly.
