| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/25/2007 8:29:12 PM | | Ok ill ill be the first to admit im on them. It really amazes me how many people are taking them. It makes me feel a bit sad that so many are in need of these drugs. I dont feel ashamed as without them i cry a lot. When my two little sisters died i became an alcoholic and eventually went to detox . Thats when the doc put me on them five years ago. i feel perfectly normal and because i feel so great sometimes ive tried to wean off them. four days after theyre out of my system it starts. All the pain of my sisters and mum and dad dying comes back and im an emotional wreck. How many of you are on them? And how are they going for you? | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/25/2007 8:33:50 PM | | You are supposed to wean yourself off of them slowly with psychiatrist help . Talk therapy is needed before during and after the antidepressants. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/25/2007 9:00:21 PM | A dope is a dope , regardless if it's illegal drug from your favorite street vendor, or legit prescribed Prozac or other.
If you feel perfectly normal while on drugs, it's time to change doctor and find another, someone who will help you detox without getting too deep in the dumps.
Google is your friend. They are out there. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/25/2007 10:26:28 PM | | Time4 2 that's a very ignorant point of view. There is a big difference between a street drug like cocaine or heroin and Prozac. You have never been in a serious depression and sometimes during the critical stages of depression an antidepressant is needed.It should not however be taken for long periods of time or used to help you escape your problems. It should be used in conjunction with talk therapy and a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist will recognize after treating your for a period of time that this critical stage has passed and that it's time to wean you off of medications. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/25/2007 11:05:35 PM | No, dear one, not everyone over 30 is taking antidepressants. I've often suspected that antidepressants can actually slow real healing. To me, the best antidote for depression is to focus on the feeling of gratitude. But sometimes it can be very difficult to find that feeling when you have experienced a deep loss. Based on your description, you might have a tough time finding that gratitude space, especially when you are off the drugs.
I would recommend the works of Abraham-Hicks as a way for you to work on the underlying emotional issues--one feeling at a time. One reason I love their work is that they give tools that work even when you are at your lowest. Then, they give tools to help you continue climbimg the emotional scale, one rung at a time.
Even though I am nearly always a very positive person, there are a few rare times when I do fall into the kind of sadness you describe. "Ask and It Is Given," by Abraham-Hicks is one of the tools I use to pull myself back out. I have others as well. You are welcome to e-mail me for more details, if you choose.
I wish you the very best as you strive to find more joy in life.
In the energy of love,
Sunlark | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 12:54:09 AM | | It sounds like you are going through a situational depression, in which case you should try to come of them eventually. I think the best thing you can do for yourself is to not isolate. Get out there and try to have some fun with friends and family. Join some clubs or start hobbies where you can meet people and make new friends. Good diet and exercise helps too. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 1:13:36 AM | | Let me just say....Anyone who doesn;t have to take them is lucky. Try living a life as having bipolar.....Look at those statistics too. They help save lives most of the time when taken properly. I have judgmental people. My job people talked and talked until I shut them up with my actions of doing what they could not through passion for my work. ITs nice changing someone asses point of view leaving them feeling stupid. :modhammer: | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 6:19:42 AM | I was on them for years, but within 2 months of separating from my ex husband i was off them. It has been 21 months and I am still off them. 
There have been times I have taken Xanax, like right before the mediation, the court date and a couple times on VERY stressful days at work. But other then that I am medication free.
My doctor said it was easy because I removed much of the stress in my life and became active again. I do have S.A.D., the winter is much harder on me, but I am doing my best not to have to take any medication. I try to get out in the sun as much as possible. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 6:33:37 AM | Nope, don't take them. Did for a little while, but they didn't seem to really help much. As my father put it once, they kind of put your mood somewhere in the middle - you don't feel quite so low, but it kind of keeps you from feeling excited, too, and I found him to be right. Of course, it could be different for someone else.
I don't know how it is for women, but guys will find that some antidepressants will cause you to have sexual problems, too. When I took Paxil, although sex was fine, most of the time I COULD NOT reach orgasm. Didn't matter much to the wife (now ex) because it lasted longer, but it was so frustrating for me. After a little while that was enough reason for me to stop taking it. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 6:49:56 AM | yup, I am one of thoes people as well who has been on Antidepressants. and yes allot of men will find sexual side affects with some of them. but there are some out there with out the sexual side affects, ED is a problem that can and WILL affect Both partners. even tho the female may tell you it dosent bother her, it does mentally. the Orgasim is the final act and if you do not then she can feal as tho it was a failure on her part.
but not every one over 30 is on them. some who arnt should be tho, and then it is like any thing else there are some who are that shouldent. i also agree that talk tharapy and the medication should be used in conjuction with each other. one is not the cure all and end all to everything, and there is no quick instant fix that we all tend to look for. dealing with the issues at hand and having some help while dealing with them is the best medicine. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:03:53 AM | I heard someone say the hardest thing to be in life is yourself...
So how can you be yourself if your medicated?
Taking Anti-depressants for a short time to reprogram your thought patterns into a happy more positive way of thinking is maybe ok...
However i think they're a huge mistake society is making...
Too many people are taking these medications then throwing caution to the wind!
Maybe they'll take risks with relationships or breaking the law and even gamble their money away... | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:04:38 AM | No, not everyone over 30 takes anti-depressants, and a lot of people under 30 do take them. I don't take them.
For those of you saying that a "drug is a drug," though, it is easy to have that attitude when you are not familiar or do not know someone who has chronic, chemically based depression.
Many people are depressed for a reason(s) and learn to deal with problems and losses, but for many others, it isn't a matter of pulling themselves out of the depths of despair. My mother has battled this type of depression her whole life, and anti-depressants have given her some semblance of normalcy--now that she is 82 and getting a little senile.
To the OP, though, you need to get yourself off the drugs. Losing people whom one loves is something that we all go through. It is never easy, but by taking anti-depressants, you are not even allowing yourself to mourn and grieve for those who are dead. When you start to wean yourself, the pain comes back because you have never dealt with it.
This is common in US society--we refuse to allow ourselves to mourn our losses. Instead of getting grief into and then out of our systems, we cover it up. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:27:12 AM | | This is in regards to message #4 from time...I swear this has got to be the most uneducated & ignorant posting I have ever read! You obviously don't have a clue that the brain is an organ like all other organs in the body. & nobody & I repeat NOBODY chooses any organ of their body to malfunction. But they do sometimes. Livers fail, hearts stop & brain chemistry doesn't always work correctly. In which case meds are very much a life-saving alternative for many. Would you question a patient with kidney failure about their treatment of dialysis? I am not on meds, but know of many friends over 30 who are & thank God they recognize the illness in their brain & to seek out treatment for it. "womanofsubstance" if its what you need to stay alive, then good for you, for only an unhealthy mind would quit. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:37:12 AM | Speaking as a person who works in the medical field, I speak from what I witness first hand.....
So based on what I see and the scripts I write... NO not EVERYONE over 30 is on antidepressants, HOWEVER.... a LARGE number of our society is walking around, driving around ( risking an accident) and, living life SEDATED, in one form or another.
Our biggest sellers.... zoloft, xanex, valium , prozac.. and the list goes on.
There is a forum on here, that refers to parents raising children that are not prepared for let down, rejection or situations that don't please them... ( ie: no spankings, no scolding, not marking tests in red ink, in order not to lower lil Johnnys self esteem).
My response to that is that we as a society are raising people that will not be prepared for adulthood, its trials and tribulations, and all the let downs that life will offer because they arent being taught how to handle dissapointment, OR being taught how to strive to be a better person.
So... in light of this. The drug companies ( no fools) have targeted these depressed citizens and and have made it easier for them to pop a pill, rather then deal with their issues head on.
Are there people out there that are in fact clinically ill, suffer true mental illness?? ABSOLUTELY!!!
Has the medical and drug industry made it much too easy to obtain these drugs in order to make their pockets richer..... ABSOLUTELY!!!
For those of you having a bad day, or going through a divorce, a sick family member, a lay off OR any NON physical ailment, I suggest you put the pill bottle down.... grow a set, grow up and face the situation head on instead of putting a band aid on how your feeling by popping a pill......
Sorry if that offends, but really... it sucks being an adult and its suckier having to behave like one at times.
Start the 2008 with a positive attitude and PUT THE BOTTLE DOWN....
JUSTmho...... jj | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:41:43 AM | No...not everyone over 30 is on them...but God knows there are some that should be.
I've had friends/co-workers that just made everyone miserable with their issues because they wouldn't/couldn't take an antidepressant.
I was put on Prozac many years ago ..after my dad died and my boyfriend was dying.
Like some others that posted.......I cried all the time...and I hated it.
I was a perfect Prozac candidate.....kept me from mood swings with no side affects.
I came off Prozac several years ago when a major diet caused my doctor (same one) to change the brand I took. Now I take Cymbalta...which was prescribed for me during my
spinal battle for something other than depression. I dropped anything else and am fine.
But go 3 days without...and I am so mushy/emotional I can't stand myself.
I totally agree that post #4 is without a clue and if she reaches my age without some preventive medications.........then I would be checking her doctor's credentials. There have been too many breakthroughs in medicines not to pay attention to what is available.
Sometimes trial and error is necessary...but trust your doctor.
Becca | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:49:44 AM | | Of course not. Personally and proffessionally , I don't really believe in medicating a person for depression. It does'nt solve the problems , it just covers them up. I do understand that medications for depression help some people , but alot of Psychologists and Psychiatrists medicate because its the easy way to care for their patients. Of course , thats just my opinion. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:52:49 AM | Thank you Tom Cruise. What a bizzarre and uninformed perspective. Depression is real...mental illnesses of many varieties are real. Just because you personally have been fortunate enough NOT to have experienced one doesn't mean there aren't many legitimate cases. Antidepressants CAN be helpful if they're properly prescribed and not abused...and accompanied by therapy. No one is intended to be using them permanently.
Regardless, there is a huge difference between street drugs and legitimate prescribed medication. What a moronic thing to say.
If you believe everything listed on Google, perhaps you need some meds yourself. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 7:57:40 AM | No matter what drugs you use it's possible to loose the real you...
Someone should write a song such as.... If Christ returns, would he not know who he was because he got into prescription drugs?
The point i'm trying to make is the world and the universe and the planets control our moods as the tides of the ocean rise and fall...
However it's not by accident the British put pubs on every corner to keep the commoners drunk and passive....a 100 or more years ago...
This is now being done by the doctors and the pharma company's...
It's all about controlling the masses, get a doctor and become a robot...
In some situations yes medications are warranted but not in the amounts were seeing today! | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 8:08:30 AM | | Bizzarre and uninformed Wease?? I've been treating people with depression and personality disorders for qiute some time. The vast majority of them did not need to be medicated. But , if you actually took the time to read what I wrote in my last post , you would have seen that I said "Medication works for some". Not all , but some. You are correct in assuming that some people that suffer from depression abuse , become addicted , or even become unable to function without them. Thats not what treatment should be about. But as I said , what works for some does not work for all. Maybe you should go back to reading that General Psychology book of yours. | |
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| is everyone over 30 taking antidepressants?
Posted: 12/26/2007 8:09:27 AM | | I'm not and don't intend to. I would agree most of the women I work with and socialize with are on some form of antidepressant and they blame it on the previous or current man in their life. I said get rid of him if you need drugs to be with him. As for me, I was a psych major and their are other ways to de-stress than drugs, not that I advocate smoking. LOL! A good doctor should assess the situation, possibly have you take a couple of tests to determine if it's depression, anxiety, etc and in severe cases blood work can be done to see it's something more serious. | |
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