I don't drink alcohol either...
It wasn't that you need SSRI's so much that going off them made you suicidal, but that going off of SSRI's makes you suicidal. I also have androgynous depression (another funnier term for it), but I refuse to medicate. Look at the people struggling with SSRI addiction, the people who were troubled but still better off before taking those pills. And then look at the studies. None I have seen can show SSRI's working above the placebo mark, and most show less performance than placebos. That is because of the side effects, lastly of course read the side effects. 'May cause compulsion to consume alcohol'. Think about how dangerous that is with a prescription medication. What about the little side effect of homicidal ideation? Or yes, the side effect that you become very dependent on them, and when you try to go off, even with a doctor, you become suicidal. Sounds like a miracle cure to me!
All drugs are bad in my book. All. Period. Although I don't count fake pig insulin as a drug. I'm sorry if you would have died without your hypertension pills, may be you should consider trying to find the root of the problem and solving it. Or you could choose to have a never ending dependent relationship with a psychoactive substance to try to allay the symptoms, and hope you don't get more side effects than you had symptoms in the first place... You're choice as a free human, but I don't understand why you're acting like I'm the idiot here...
I appreciate you in your crumugeny though
-Pip
It wasn't that you need SSRI's so much that going off them made you suicidal, but that going off of SSRI's makes you suicidal. I also have androgynous depression (another funnier term for it), but I refuse to medicate. Look at the people struggling with SSRI addiction, the people who were troubled but still better off before taking those pills. And then look at the studies. None I have seen can show SSRI's working above the placebo mark, and most show less performance than placebos. That is because of the side effects, lastly of course read the side effects. 'May cause compulsion to consume alcohol'. Think about how dangerous that is with a prescription medication. What about the little side effect of homicidal ideation? Or yes, the side effect that you become very dependent on them, and when you try to go off, even with a doctor, you become suicidal. Sounds like a miracle cure to me!
All drugs are bad in my book. All. Period. Although I don't count fake pig insulin as a drug. I'm sorry if you would have died without your hypertension pills, may be you should consider trying to find the root of the problem and solving it. Or you could choose to have a never ending dependent relationship with a psychoactive substance to try to allay the symptoms, and hope you don't get more side effects than you had symptoms in the first place... You're choice as a free human, but I don't understand why you're acting like I'm the idiot here...
I appreciate you in your crumugeny though
-Pip
