Coping with Depression.

[Dev]

Hi. Unfortunately, these things are bound to happen again.

 

[KILL TULLY]

Don't be an infantryman.

 

[einride]

tully

 

[MFJ]

Don't be an infantryman.

good advice IMO, sorry dude.

 

[KILL TULLY]

Haha, it has it's moments. Today is just a shitty day. A lot of days are, hah. I wouldn't trade some of the shit I've been able to do though. I am very proud to be a combat veteran and proud of being in the infantry. That's what makes it OK for me to call out all the bullshit and ridiculousness of garrison life =).

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Most bizarre bump of all time?

 

[Krilons Resa]

It's up there.

see what I just did there?

 

[Dick Sirloin]

It's RiA disguised as Plastic Nathrakh disguised as this dude

 

[E-bortion]

i just lost my job. awesome timing for this one to be dug out.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

You big dummy.

 

[Valkyria_Cneajna_Rusalka]

Antidepressants just make you apathetic, and you'll probably become dependent, can't speak for all meds but withdrawal from Paxil is a nightmare, and Effexor is twice as horrible: brain zaps, vivid nightmares from just missing one dose

The main problem I see with psychiatric drugs is that the basis for prescribing them is entirely theoretical. There is an assumption that depression results from low production of certain neurotransmitters, but no laboratory test which actually measures a patients level of serotonin or dopamine and norepinephrine (which NSSRIs such as effexor raise) to confirm this.

 

[dorian gray]

It's a pretty decent theory though.

Weirdest bump ever btw

 

[einride]

Antidepressants just make you apathetic, and you'll probably become dependent, can't speak for all meds but withdrawal from Paxil is a nightmare, and Effexor is twice as horrible: brain zaps, vivid nightmares from just missing one dose

The main problem I see with psychiatric drugs is that the basis for prescribing them is entirely theoretical. There is an assumption that depression results from low production of certain neurotransmitters, but no laboratory test which actually measures a patients level of serotonin or dopamine and norepinephrine (which NSSRIs such as effexor raise) to confirm this.

yeah without knowing anything about the subject i would tend to think that low production of certain neurotransmitters results from depression and not the other way around

i have been asked once by a therapist whether i would like to try antidepressants and i was pretty firm in my no, and since then i have solved my depression in a better way. i would not treat the symptoms instead of the cause unless the symptoms were extreme to the point that i couldn't function well enough to even begin sorting out my situation by other, healthier means

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

I suffered from depression and managed to handle it without them.

I had a relapse a few years later that basically kept me from sleeping and got some antidepressants prescribed, I took them for about a week. They made me colapse into sleep, kinda like Narcolepsy, and I pretty much felt like crap the whole time. It solved the sleeping problem but not the lack of energy problem. It freaked me out, so I stopped and rode it out.