Are antidepressants really the answer?

Boundless · Expert User Joined: Aug 20, 2005 Posts: 615 Location: UK

Are they really any good? i dont want to take them really but do they work?
I am depressed all the time and i hate it but got no energy to fight it,so i was thinking of pills or something? i cant make any progress whilst depressed it makes me feel so hopeless and makes me not really want to get better but i need to.
Been a strange few days for me,been really down because of some problems
and i dont want to be like this anymore if these drugs can help me i will try get some.

Kezada · Advanced User Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 308

im on an anti-depressant called serotonin, it kinda helps me in a way but the best but medication for me is marijuana. serotonin helps tho

Kezada

Boundless · Expert User Joined: Aug 20, 2005 Posts: 615 Location: UK

Seriously you shouldnt smoke that crap whilst on medication it makes you worse not better,drugs and alchohol are both very bad things to have if you are depressed.

Aerandir · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:07 am Post subject:

Anti-depressant will help you because, but you gotta get a prescription, they stabalise the serotonin, among others, levels in your brain. It will not cure you but they can help. They will help you on the physiological side and then you're gonna be able to work on the psychological side.

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redlady · Elite User Joined: Jul 08, 2005 Posts: 1958

I agree with Aerandir they can help you but you still have to work on yourself. They are not the be all and end all to your problems. Those deeper issues inside you will still be there regardless and will still be dictating your behaviour - in order for you to make any real change they have to be acknowledged and resolved. Medication has the potential to lessen what you are feeling - and that may make it easier for you to undertake what you have to do on the psychological side of things.

Aerandir · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:42 am Post subject:

I would have liked to say it just like you did Red, but english is just too unatural for me...

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IcanDoIt · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:16 am Post subject:

ull develop immunity to it, and the effects get lesser and in e end u have to invrease the dosage..

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redlady · Elite User Joined: Jul 08, 2005 Posts: 1958

POB · Newbie User Joined: Sep 29, 2005 Posts: 4

no anti depressants are not the answer. They just mask yr problems, they might stop u from thinking about ur problems but there not a solution. How can u solve a problem you ve got if u dont face it and deal with it instead of hiding from the truth. Sometimes anti depressants make u a lot worse i know from experience. Take some advise dont take them instead find some councilling dont relli on yr doctor

Chilling__Echo · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

i'm always for anit depressants. they made me feel less anxious and depressed so that i could build my own confindense to face it on my own. give em a try. they're not a solution in a bottle but nor are they useless

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