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Do you take antidepressants?

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Do you take antidepressants?
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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 17, 2014 at 8:09 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 8:06 pm)futilethewinds Wrote:
(March 17, 2014 at 8:02 pm)Beccs Wrote: I'm not trying to play the whole "I'm tough and don't need that stuff" bullshit.

I honestly think I've been lucky.
No, I get it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you haven't suffered from depression your whole life, right? That's the difference. For some reason (probably genetic) my brain never generated those "feel good" chemicals it was supposed to.

I was even depressed as a young child, I just didn't know that was what it was because I had never felt any other way. People who have the serotonin and dopamine working naturally don't know how lucky they are.

You are correct on both counts:

I first suffered from depression in my mid teens, and I honestly think that's what made the difference.

I can relate but I definitely can't imagine what it's like to live with it constantly.

For me I've found I have a good number of people I can talk to about it (and my work has a shrink on staff).

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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 17, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Never had to use those things...
One wonders... what sort of evolutionary pressures made depression something so prevalent?
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#43
RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 17, 2014 at 8:23 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 8:13 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Never had to use those things...
One wonders... what sort of evolutionary pressures made depression something so prevalent?
Oh, look, Wikipedia has a page on exactly this. Knock yourself out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionar...depression
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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 17, 2014 at 9:12 pm (This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 9:15 pm by Phatt Matt s.)
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#45
RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 17, 2014 at 9:59 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 9:12 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote:
(March 17, 2014 at 7:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I had a pretty bad adverse reaction to a tricyclic. Went manic, ended up in Mexico, didn't sleep more than a couple of hours for nearly ten days. Wheee!!!!

I'm not exaggerating in the least.

Dude! Trycyclics cause mania? Hell yeah! i NEED Tryciclics!!!Devil

They do when I take 'em. Careful what you wish for. Mania took a heavy, heavy toll.
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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 17, 2014 at 10:03 pm
I've only been on St. John's Wort, which worked like a charm, but once I did find that it worked, I inadvertantly got noncompliant with it.

Also photosensitivity.
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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 17, 2014 at 10:41 pm
Yes, 30 mg of celexa, but not for depression and among a small cocktail of other chemicals.
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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 18, 2014 at 12:45 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 10:41 pm)Shell B Wrote: Yes, 30 mg of celexa, but not for depression and among a small cocktail of other chemicals.

Do you take it for anxiety?

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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 18, 2014 at 12:46 pm
Other than Oxy one time, when I was having major health issues, aspirin and cough medicine are the hardest drugs I have ever consumed.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: Do you take antidepressants?
March 21, 2014 at 10:46 am
Sometimes I 4get if i took pills and take em twice
Tis a bitch haven to
xplain dat shit on fill day Sad
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