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Do you take any psychiatric medication?
#14037561 - 02/27/11 06:31 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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This includes medication for anything from Depression to Bi-Polar Disorder to ADHD to schizophrenia to OCD/anxiety disorder
I take one SSRI and one SNRI daily, as well as a supplement called Deplin intended to increase their effectiveness. Been hooked for years ever since I was a naive 15 year old with ignorant parents
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: morrowasted]
#14037606 - 02/27/11 06:42 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I take meds for ADHD, have been for just over half a year now. (Used to be adderall up till about October then I switched to ritalin because it has way fewer side-effects for me.)
Overall, I appreciate ADHD medication. I'm really on the fence about treating children, but I think it's important that adults have access to drugs that can help them improve themselves, and ADHD meds have done just that by helping me develop effective habits for long-term focus and concentration. I have those for life, they're still there when I go off the meds, as I occasionally have done for weeks at a time.
I'm beginning to resent it now, though. If I take it too many days in a row I get depressed. And it's especially dangerous for me to have a big bottle of stims lying around during my weekend tradition of getting massively shitfaced. Though I am getting better about that.
I'm working on a personal taper-down strategy right now, I'm trying to only take it three out of the seven days of the week. It's going well so far. At this stage of my life I feel I care enough about school and what it can offer me not to need a stimulant to concentrate, but I've grown used to it as a motivational booster and a security blanket.
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I also take stimulants (vyvanse) pretty regularly (about 2 days per week) to help motivate me to do school work, though it is not prescribed to me
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: morrowasted]
#14038010 - 02/27/11 07:41 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Only the ganja plant.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14038015 - 02/27/11 07:42 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that.... I also smoke cannabinoids of all types every day all day... probably more than cheech and chong combined
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: morrowasted] 1
#14038047 - 02/27/11 07:47 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hell no are you kidding me? I would never fall for a scam like that. Fuck big pharma!
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: muistrue]
#14038067 - 02/27/11 07:51 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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ADHD medications are legitly useful, but I do think it's astonishing how they give them to you to take every day indefinitely.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: muistrue]
#14038084 - 02/27/11 07:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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FractalDust said: Hell no are you kidding me? I would never fall for a scam like that. Fuck big pharma!
I would not fall for it either, if I were given the choice now that I am a rational adult.
But when I was 15 and ignorant, and I was given Zoloft, I had no reason to reconsider whether or not it was a good idea. My mom was a psychiatrist, and I trusted her judgment. Either way, I took it, and it made me more confident, social, and less anxious. I started doing better in school, and I started getting attention from girls. I had no idea I was fucking up my brain chemistry. Now, almost seven years later, my serotonin receptors are all thrown out of whack. Every time I try to quit taking them, it's horrible.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: muistrue] 1
#14038119 - 02/27/11 07:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
FractalDust said: Hell no are you kidding me? I would never fall for a scam like that. Fuck big pharma!
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: Kid_Orgo]
#14038150 - 02/27/11 08:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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lorazepam and two non pysch meds suboxone and clonidine.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: Kid_Orgo] 1
#14038153 - 02/27/11 08:03 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's a scam bro. I bet if I went to a psychiatrist they would throw every color of the rainbow worth of pills at me.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: muistrue] 1
#14038189 - 02/27/11 08:07 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Pills CAN help people IMO. Sometimes they are better than every alternative.
Unfortunately, that doesn't stop big pharma from exploiting people however they can. We live in a paleolithically capitalistic society, and also one that develops the most drugs.
People find legitimate use for antidepressants and Ritalin in Europe too, even though no one profits from that because European health care is taxpayer-funded.
Just because a legitimate cure for a legitimate problem CAN be exploited does not mean the cure is inherently exploitative.
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Tchan909 said: Pills CAN help people IMO. Sometimes they are better than every alternative.
Unfortunately, that doesn't stop big pharma from exploiting people however they can. We live in a paleolithically capitalistic society, and also one that develops the most drugs.
People find legitimate use for antidepressants and Ritalin in Europe too, even though no one profits from that because European health care is taxpayer-funded.
Just because a legitimate cure for a legitimate problem CAN be exploited does not mean the cure is inherently exploitative.
This is true. A lot of people think that cannabis is a cure all and end all to every medical issue. Well, it isn't. It definitely has medicinal value. A lot of people that make this argument will say that psychiatric prescription medication is a scam. Well, it isn't. There are many people that benefit from the therapeutic use of antidepressants. That being said, The pharmaceutical companies definitely rape and pillage America.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: 4HO-DMT]
#14038498 - 02/27/11 08:46 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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nah i tried it out. was prescribed zoloft and xanax for a bit. zoloft i quit after a week because i couldnt get hard. fuck that. xanax was too damn good so i ended up taking them all the time. now i just say fuck it. ill just be who i am without drugs fucking with my natural human emotions.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: 4HO-DMT]
#14038500 - 02/27/11 08:46 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah I cant express enough how annoying and aggravating it is to see people say marijuana is a cure all. It helps with glaucoma, appetite, and insomnia and other than that its just fun to smoke and get stoned, it is not the answer to fucking everything. There are people in this world that would be fucking bat shit crazy if they didnt have certain medications. Like others said the pharm companies do push meds but to say that its all a scam and nobody realy needs them just makes everyone who says it look like a fucking moron.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: PeterGriffin467] 1
#14038535 - 02/27/11 08:50 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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there are very few people that actually NEED the medications to function. the medications that are most highly prescribed are just quick fixes to a problem that is most likely temporary and can be solved using other avenues.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: masterharf]
#14038577 - 02/27/11 08:54 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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masterharf said: there are very few people that actually NEED the medications to function. the medications that are most highly prescribed are just quick fixes to a problem that is most likely temporary and can be solved using other avenues.
I don't know what you base that statement on, but you'd be surprised. People have some pretty bizarre anxiety problems. Like debilitating ones. SSRI's are actually the best way to deal with it for some of them. Meditation, better diet, and exercise might work for some, but other people have been taking great care of themselves their entire life and still have panic attacks every time they see a sidewalk.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: morrowasted]
#14038605 - 02/27/11 08:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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i take lamactal and cymbalta in the morning. ativan all day. then seroquel at night.
insurance companies are keeping me sane
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: sirbojangles]
#14038612 - 02/27/11 08:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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No, only psychedelic medication.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: sirbojangles]
#14038616 - 02/27/11 08:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Im on ativan as well but I find it to be almost completely useless now for anxiety, will probably be switched to klonopin next appt.
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Re: Do you take any psychiatric medication? [Re: morrowasted]
#14038648 - 02/27/11 09:03 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: Either way, I took it, and it made me more confident, social, and less anxious. I started doing better in school, and I started getting attention from girls. I had no idea I was fucking up my brain chemistry. Now, almost seven years later, my serotonin receptors are all thrown out of whack. Every time I try to quit taking them, it's horrible.
How's your brain chemistry fucked up, do you just mean that it depends on the SSRI?
Are you still doing okay in school?
Are you just trying to quit them on your own, or in consultation with your doctor?
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