re: OT doctors and users of lexapro

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Lexapro will make her like an emotionless zombie from what I've seen from people I know who took it.

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I've been on it for 8 years and you're wrong.

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Tell your wife to deal with anxiety like a normal grown up instead of swallowing pills. The number of people using RX meds these days to help them mentally cope with life is pathetic. If she can't be normal without taking mental pills it may be time to end that relationship.

Lexapro will make her like an emotionless zombie from what I've seen from people I know who took it.

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Piss off, tough guy.

Different antidepressants affect different people in different ways. There is no blanket statement answer.

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Tell your wife to deal with anxiety like a normal grown up instead of swallowing pills. The number of people using RX meds these days to help them mentally cope with life is pathetic. If she can't be normal without taking mental pills it may be time to end that relationship.

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let me guess. you also think that everyone that commits suicide is a selfish coward, right?

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Tell your wife to deal with anxiety like a normal grown up instead of swallowing pills. The number of people using RX meds these days to help them mentally cope with life is pathetic. If she can't be normal without taking mental pills it may be time to end that relationship.

Lexapro will make her like an emotionless zombie from what I've seen from people I know who took it.

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In an ideal world it would be possible to deal with all mental health issues without any medicinal intervention, but I think you would have to really have a strong grasp of everyone's experiences to make such a blanket statement. Medication can be very powerful, and very helpful, but you have to educate yourself on the properties of each medication, and stop depending on doctors/psychiatrists all the time to just hand out meds without question. Most doctors/psychiatrist I have encountered have good intentions, but you still have to do your part on understanding the medication from other's perspectives, and how it effected them. When everyone is working together on that, then medication can play the role it was always originally intended to play.

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Lexapro will make her like an emotionless zombie from what I've seen from people I know who took it.

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This. I took it for years and it made me apathetic about almost everything including living and enjoying the emotions associated with life. I was just there but not emotionally involved in anything....

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Those brain zings you read about are no joke

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.Also. quitting it was DIFFICULT....took over a year to step down off of it due to severe depression when I stop taking it