Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support

[Cosmic Ape]

I can shake it off if people try to bring me down. Apparently I wouldn't be a good doctor if I was an Atheist, because I would disrespect their religious boundaries. I don't honestly see how my mom rationalized that in her head, but it happened. Logical reasoning and rationalizing is definitely not her best asset.

Yeah that's asinine for her to postulate that, if anything as an Atheist doctor you would value life more than a creationist doctor because as an Atheist you would know that death is final and that you have to do all you can for the patient and on the flipside the creationist can detatch himself from reality and say "well he's off to a better place" or some other anecdote and that takes away from actual morality and dehumanizes us in the worst possible way. I cant imagine how much it hurts for your own mother to tell you that you cannot be a moral and good person without religion when you could simply point out that other animals feel very deep emotions and sentiments like we do. Feelings of empathy, remorse, love, bonding, burying/mourning the dead, these are inate in us and if your mother isnt willing to learn that if you show her than thats a sad state of affairs.

Sorry about the religious undertones, it's my terminology that didn't provide what I really meant in that sentence. I'm just unable to grasp what it is that I would be good at, and enjoy when I actually grow up and go to college. All I'm looking for is something that is beneficial, and can proffer happiness, unlike the way I'm living right now. Innately, I'm just looking for "change".

Oh definitely no need to be sorry man, it happens to the most atheistic of us, and its proof by how many people say things like "godamnit" or "jesus christ" when mad. Or how I used to say "hey dont jinx it" when all I was really doing was promoting superstition which directly feeds into religion in my opinion. It feeds that mindset of false logic.

Could you please list some of the possible side effects, for future reference?

Sure. I'll give side effects for the withdrawal only since I feel that Anti-Depressants didnt do anything positive or negatively for me while on it. The first one I noticed was the shakes, my body would randomly seize up and even on occassion I would have headrushes and have to drop to my knees because my neurons werent firing properly from the lack of the drug. The second thing I noticed was that I was starting to get manic, something that never happened before or after I took the drug. My depression was a distinct feeling of sadness not a manic state where I couldnt control my thoughts or mood swings. And the third thing I noticed was that I was getting random symptoms of sickness, like vomiting, dizziness and irratability. These effects lasted for about 2 weeks before subsiding. But withdrawal can be avoided if you come down from the drug gradually.

Anyway, I'm glad you responded and keep us up to date, miles.