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re: Why are so many people on anti depressants?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:13 am to BabyTac
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:13 am to BabyTac
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Most chicks I know over 30...esp ones that are not married, are on them. I find the pills make them more of a roller coaster of instability. It sucks to meet a girl at this age you think may actually be cool only to go to her house and see prescription bottles everywhere.
It's because they've got a giant hole in their life and they're trying to fill it with those pills. Society tells them to live their life for themselves, to be the perpetual teen that never grows up, gets married and starts a family. But nobody tells them that they will reach an age where they will start to have this gnawing feeling in their gut, this primal urge that no amount of partying, or random hook-ups will ever satisfy. At this point they are confronted with two choices.
1. Follow their natural urges and grow up, get married and start a family.
or
2. Use pills to numb the pain enough to the point they can ignore it.
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:14 am to Austin Cajun
I always thought depression was bullshite until I went through it myself. Doc put me on Lexapro, and I took myself off after a few weeks. Hated that shite. It made me feel numb.
That said... I think there are lots of people taking shite like that who don't need to be on it.
Just like the over-diagnosis of ADD.
That said... I think there are lots of people taking shite like that who don't need to be on it.
Just like the over-diagnosis of ADD.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:14 am to Darth_Vader
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1. Follow their natural urges and grow up, get married and start a family.
or
2. Use pills to numb the pain enough to the point they can ignore it.
I don't think you understand how anti-depressants work.
A lot of people don't even need traditional anti-depressants. Mood stabilizers have worked wonders for me.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 9:16 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:18 am to Lacour
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I don't think you understand how anti-depressants work.
I do. And I also understand that while needed by some for legitimate reasons, they are over-used on a massive scale by others.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:18 am to BabyTac
I'm always shocked by the number of folks on Adderall. Just walking down the halls hearing people talk about it, it seems like over half the office is taking that stuff.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:26 am to jdd48
Lacour is right, I had the same problem thinking it was a weak thing to do, I took my first dose when I was 38 and it has changed my life. I wish i would have started earlier in life...
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:26 am to Darth_Vader
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I do. And I also understand that while needed by some for legitimate reasons, they are over-used on a massive scale by others.
This** I have a friend who was hooked to xanax and kept sayin how he really thinks he should be prescribed xanax and how happy it makes him. I'm like, yeah b/c you are getting fricked up and abusing them. I was like when I do drugs, I feel happy on them too, that doesn't mean I should be popping balt salts all the time.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:27 am to Lacour
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If it helps and you can get it, take it.
But will the "help" outweigh the harm? Is there any harm in using medicine to correct a kid's lack of focus?
Is there harm in preventing a person from feeling the negative effects of their shortcomings? In artificially propping up their mood?
I don't believe a person is truly helping himself by becoming reliant on this kind of medication.
Life is a struggle, it always has been for everyone. Struggling to correct what's wrong is how you know you're alive, it's how you go from a completely self-involved child to a conflicted teenager to a balanced adult to a peaceful elderly person. I just don't think you can grow normally without experiencing everything as it is.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:28 am to Austin Cajun
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Why are so many people on anti depressants?
They are depressed.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:28 am to dawgsjw
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I have a friend who was hooked to xanax
not an anti-depressant.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:36 am to jdd48
quote:Doctor's often times over prescribe these drugs to get the patient off their back. I have a family member that has a long history of prescription drug addiction - been in rehab multiple times for abusing antidepressants/anti-anxiety drugs. I've never understood how a functioning woman with a career, great paying job, has raised her children to adulthood, husband makes plenty of money and they are finacially set for life can be depressed? Yet she has taken and abused prescription drugs to the point that she can hardly bring herself to get up and out of the house on a regular basis.....
I'm always shocked by the number of folks on Adderall. Just walking down the halls hearing people talk about it, it seems like over half the office is taking that stuff.
It's frustrating as hell to see someone waste away their lives and end up a shell of their former selves. IMO, the doctors and the drugs did mote damage than good.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:48 am to LucasP
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not an anti-depressant.
yeah it is, its used for a lot of different stuff. A different friend got it prescribed to him as anti-depressant, along w/ something else too.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:49 am to Austin Cajun
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I'm 35,so I certainly do understand this
Maybe you should re-evaluate what's important to you if you really believe that.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:52 am to RT1941
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I've never understood how a functioning woman with a career, great paying job, has raised her children to adulthood, husband makes plenty of money and they are finacially set for life can be depressed?
I get what you're saying, but you're putting a lot of emphasis on the financial aspect. I know people who are flat broke and couldn't be happier. I also know absolutely miserable wealthy people. Money isn't much of a factor when it comes to depression.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:52 am to thesoccerfanjax
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Maybe you should re-evaluate what's important to you if you really believe that.
You're faulting the guy for not thinking life is horrible? That's weird.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:53 am to Austin Cajun
Having worked in Pharma/Biotech for 10 years, I realize that these disease conditions existed long before pills, but became treatable as diseases when the pills became available. If that makes sense.
To a man with a hammer in his hand, everything looks like a nail that needs pounding.
As a dentist, I am blown away by how many people are on antidepressants and ADD medications. If I see a new patient that is female about 75% are on antidepressants. Males, especially those between the ages of 15 and 40 years old, 70% are on ADD meds.
These figures are only my observations, but they worry me. Most of these drugs are written by family medicine doctors with limited training in psych meds/conditions.
Our knowledge about the brain and how it works is limited at best. We probably know more about how the universe works, yet we willy nilly allow these meds to be written on this large percentage of the population.
The chickens will eventually come home to roost.
To a man with a hammer in his hand, everything looks like a nail that needs pounding.
As a dentist, I am blown away by how many people are on antidepressants and ADD medications. If I see a new patient that is female about 75% are on antidepressants. Males, especially those between the ages of 15 and 40 years old, 70% are on ADD meds.
These figures are only my observations, but they worry me. Most of these drugs are written by family medicine doctors with limited training in psych meds/conditions.
Our knowledge about the brain and how it works is limited at best. We probably know more about how the universe works, yet we willy nilly allow these meds to be written on this large percentage of the population.
The chickens will eventually come home to roost.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:54 am to Lacour
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Some people have legitimate chemical imbalances in their brains that require medication to act as a balancing agent. If I was not on a cocktail of pharmaceuticals, I would probably have committed suicide or harmed someone else years ago.
Tell me, what is the proper balance of chemicals in your brain and how did your doctor come to diagnose this legit imbalance and prescribe the proper cocktail to act as a balancing agent?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:55 am to Mo Jeaux
Nah. I'm pretty sure he thinks life is horrible. Or maybe I misunderstood his post. Regardless, it wasn't just directed at him but anyone who thinks life is horrible and there's nothing they can do about it.
Well, I guess if you've spent your whole adult life working 60+ hrs a week so you can have nice "things", and now you can't stop working 60+ hrs a week so the bank won't take your things. I guess I'd be pretty miserable, too.
I'm just always amazed at people who have zero hobbies, except for maybe following their favorite teams (which isn't actually a hobby IMO). They just go to work and come home and repeat the next day.
Well, I guess if you've spent your whole adult life working 60+ hrs a week so you can have nice "things", and now you can't stop working 60+ hrs a week so the bank won't take your things. I guess I'd be pretty miserable, too.
I'm just always amazed at people who have zero hobbies, except for maybe following their favorite teams (which isn't actually a hobby IMO). They just go to work and come home and repeat the next day.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 9:59 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:58 am to The Third Leg
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Tell me, what is the proper balance of chemicals in your brain and how did your doctor come to diagnose this legit imbalance and prescribe the proper cocktail to act as a balancing agent?
Trial and error for years. Different medications at different dosages.
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