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Rant On Depression & Medication

 

I just listened to the newest archive show and the fellas hit a sore point with me... that of psychological medications.

For years I was utterly crippled by "depression" which goes MUCH farther than just being bummed out because things weren't going my way one day.

I felt deep un-founded GRIEF, RAGE and utter DESPAIR everyday of my stinking useless life.

I felt like a beast that simply could not ever mix with the rest of the world and ended up a hermit who rarely left my home.

My thinking proccesses were screwed up to an extent where sometimes I couldn't even take care of my basic needs.

These feelings had nothing to do with my surroundings and couldn't be reasoned away by therapy.

Depression and mental illness runs riot through my family on both sides so I got a double genetic dose of it, kids!

Without my Zoloft I feel dread, deep sadness, fear, phobias and a host of other extremely negitive feelings which cause my life to come to a screetching halt.

The really bad part of it is that before medication, while I would sit, locked in my tiny pitch black laundry room on the pile of dirty clothes between the water heater and the washing machine, crying and wailing in emotional and phycical pain, there was a little piece of sanity in me that knew there was no real reason to feel the way I did yet it wasn't enough of a piece to shake some sense back into the part that was wanting to claw my face off and punch holes in the walls.

This is not an issue of "bad days" and "good days" or of taking a pill to feel happy-go-lucky. That's highly ignorant!

No pill, short of a narcotic, is going to make you feel happy no matter what's going on around you. That's a MYTH and I'm sick of the Tom Cruises of this world callously standing on couches and loudly putting down the use of a medication that literaly saved my life and continues to do so on a daily basis!

The stigma of mental illness has only in recent years lifted enough to allow people to feel they can seek help without being made to feel...well.. stigmatised.

But everytime that someone who doesn't know what the hell they're talking about, loudly denounces the use of psychiatric medications, it damages the progress that's been made.

I am medicated and have the full range of emotions, thank you very much, including my current outrage!

The brain works on chemicals and is an organ just like any other. When denied the chemicals that it needs to function as it should, you end up with an ill person and sometimes a dead person.

It malfunctions just like any other organ may but I dont hear anyone being flippant about someone taking a pill to help their liver, kidneys or heart work properly!

People who have CRONIC SEVERE DEPRESSION have chemical imballances and deserve to get the medical treatment for that without having people in the public eye ridcule the use of the life-fixing and life-saving medications they need for a legitimate illness.

And that's all I have to say on that.

Goodnight.

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You know I know where you're

By psychokitten78 on March 24, 2006 - 3:13am

You know I know where you're coming from on this...without the stabilization of meds...my husband looses all rationality and flys off the deep end over every little damn thing...which reminds me...I'm bugging him in the morning to make his apt. b/c the the zoloft isn't really helping so he either needs an adjustment or something else...b/c he's been a butthead majorly lately...

Danielle aka Psychokitten78

I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave-Jimmy Cliff "The Harder They Come"

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Medication Alchemy

By TushyGalore on March 24, 2006 - 5:43am

It was actually all over the news yesterday (or maybe the day before) that only a small percentage of people are helped by the first medication they try but a very large percentage show marked improvment when switched to another med, even with it's one that very chemicaly similar.

Some people need a combination of drugs to get them stabalized.

The brain is still mostly a mystery to medical science and it's a difficult thing to treat.

Tell him to be patient and give it all a chance, it may take a few months even to know if something new is going to work. I'm rooting for him (and the whole fam).

I'm itching to go on a hunt. I'm trying to arrange something with Pam for checking out her house but she's been all sick and puny lately.

If we can get Mom to watch the kidlettes some night maybe the three of us can hit hell house and PG Cemetery. That aughta scare the poo outta Andy... then he'll have to change his MySpace name to AndyPooless. Ha!

XOXOXO

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By psychokitten78 on March 26, 2006 - 11:35pm

hahaha...andypooless...great...

Yeah I think he needs to try some Paxil...I've known alot of people with the same sort of problems and Paxil was the key...even with my mom...she said it really has helped her learn how to not fly off the handle at every little damn thing...so I do think it works well with people and rage issues...

Now just to get the boy to get himself back to the doctor...

Danielle aka Psychokitten78

I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave-Jimmy Cliff "The Harder They Come"

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Sheer numbers

By Doug on March 23, 2006 - 10:18pm

Tush, I'm not against modern drugs when they're necessary and helpful.

My frustration is when drugs are used as the first line of attack instead of the last resort. How many millions of people take these drugs? I am guessing many millions, based upon the vastness of financial reports of companies in the pharmaceutical industry. How many could have been treated and perhaps CURED in some other way? THAT's my beef with the way things are going in our fast-food, immediate-gratification culture.

One of my friends was prescribed muscle relaxers. He was told he would have to take them for as long as he lives to ease the pain in his shoulder. That was the white-coated medical community hive mind's position. He never filled even the first prescription. He instead sought an alternative treatment. He now lives pain free and other things that were troublesome but not painful have cleared up as well!

Again, the traditional doctors would have had him be a pill popper for the rest of his LIFE.

THAT's my complaint. My friend is one of MILLIONS upon MILLIONS that are receiving the fast-food approach to medicine.

~~==- Doug -==~~
co-host, Ghostly Talk
panelist, Paranormal Minds
fan of everything Indie

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But Doug...

By TushyGalore on March 24, 2006 - 1:10am

I can't see anyone being willing to spend hundreds of dollars a month on anti-depressants unless they truely feel that they need them.

And the darned thing of it is, if they dont have the illness then the pill isn't going to do a dang thing for you anyhow. Most modern meds like this don't cause happiness, they just allow you to feel it when it comes your way.

I've made the horrible mistake of going off of Zoloft thinking that I could be sane this time without it and it cost me a marriage and some friendships and I wasted too much time being ill because I didn't want to be a pill-popper.

I love you guys to bits and pieces but I was nearly in tears listening to what sounded to me to be callous, intollerant attitudes towards a very needed line of medication.I just hate to hear anyone cast judgement on that whole topic.

I nearly lost a 19 year old cousin a couple of years ago who couldn't claw her way out of constant depression, checked herself into a seedy motel, took medication to stop clotting, something else to make her numb and drowsy, sat in a bath tub of hot water and slit her wrists.

She was found literaly minutes before death and has permenant tendon damage and horrible emotional and physical scars.

She refuses to get on medication because of the nasty things that get said publicly about anti-deppresants and the people who take them. So... we're left with a beautiful, brilliant, sad young woman who talks constantly of her own demise.

It's an awful way to live and as far as I'm concerened, people who take medications they don't need aren't hurting anyone, so why really care?

We all put things into our bodies that we dont need, things that aren't good for us. Be it tabbaco, alcohol, ice cream or asprin when you could likely tough it out.

To me it just comes down to "live-and-let-live".

I've re-thought something... people DO NEED ice cream so forget I said that part. ;)

Anyhow I repect your opinion, even if I cant embrace it. I hope you can see my side of it as well.

-Tushy- aka -Elissa-

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Bless you Elissa,I feel

By 8bit on March 23, 2006 - 7:12pm

Bless you Elissa,
I feel your pain, my mother has severe mental ailments that require a heavy dose of meds daily. Otherwise, she's a stark raving lunatic. When she's on her meds, she's quiet but otherwise functional and normal. I definitely know where your coming from on this.

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