Went to the doctors, with the sole purpose of geting my hands on some happy pills. Its a new University year and I have no wish to have mood problems ruin it, so I am quite resolved to sorting this problem out.

I talk to this doc, never met him before, had to tell him all the bad stuff to make sure he WOULD give me tablets.
It worked, although he also thinks I need months of therapy, so I think I may have said too much. :p

Sadly, these things take a month to take full effect. My body is twitching for a few hours after taking it, they're giving me headaches and insomnia.
And I'm not allowed to drink.


Anyone else suffer depression and take antidepressants? I wanna hear a success story or two, I dont wanna wimp out of a course of medicine again.

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You can't drink? Well that would put me into a state of depression... How about you just screw the pills, and buy a liter of rum instead.

you can still drink.

it'll just have more kick.

100% natural depression here.

Don't drink, that causes severe side effects.

sorry for you


such a ************* ******* doc!!!!

maybe you shouldn't have gone to get them....

hmmm, i want those happy pills.

isn't drinking better than these so-called "happy pills"? i had the opportunity to get on them year ago when my parents though i was depressed, but passed it up.

Drinking is the future, happy pills have side effects!

The whole point of not drinking is that alchohol is a depressant.
depressant + antidepressant = waste of time!

I've been on and off them for years, to be honest I never really felt they made much difference. The normal stuff in my life, relationships, stress, the seasons etc affected me far more. Taking the pills without going for the counselling seems a tad pointless, you're not curing it, just dealing with the symptoms. That's pretty much the reason I stopped taking them the first time, my therapy wasn't going anywhere and I didn't much fancy (ok, that phrase is proof that I'm watching waaaaaay too much Firefly) staying on happy pills for the rest of my life.

I dunno if there is such thing as a 'happy ending' with them unless you're willing to actually tackle the problems too.

The side effects are usually temporary and will resolve themselves afteer a week or two, but not all antidepressants work for everyone. So if the side effects are causing you too much grief, ask your doctor to prescribe an alternative.

I'm on a antidepressant due to an intestinal condition. To cut a long and boring story short: the drugs tend to prevent from getting as agitated when my guts flare up and make me care less that I struggle to be able to do "normal" activities. Another reason I take them is because one of the side effects is a decrease in intestinal motility (a good thing in my case).

lol... Alcohol IS a depressant..Of course if youre depressed you shouldn't drink.

Ive never been on anti-depressants, but I know what its like to go through medications that don't work...I've taken tons of medications for my Tourette's Syndrome. Nothing works, some even made them worse, as well as what you get, insomnia. I found that just, not taking pills worked. That, and Marijuana.. :p (not saying you should start)

I can never get depressed about anything. I'm just not susceptable to it.

TFTI.

Alcohol never makes me feel anything but warm and dizzy, I dunno why they call it a depressant.

Because it is.

That's the thing about doctors... when you want therapy, they just give you pills. When you want the pills, they want to give you therapy.

Yup, my brother mixed alcohol with his anti-depressants one New Years Eve, that eneded up in Emergency.

Anyway I was on anti-depressants for seven years....various ones like epilum, lithium, efexor, zoloft, prozac....and a few others I can't recall. I hated the heavy sedating ones with side effects so ended up on the lighter ones. Finally got off them in 2001 and am enjoying life

You have ICBS or something like that, right?

Yeah, happy pills are nice. But vodka tastes good.

I don't believe in anti-depressants, they seem so...fake. Can you really be happy if something is making you be happy?

A good FPS game = best anti-depressant. Nothing like an hour or two of mass slaughterings before bed to cheer ya up.

The main purpose of anti-depressants is to help you, not cure you. Many people need therapy or need to be more physically active, but often can't do that without medication. Exercise is probably the best anti-depressant, you'll be hard pressed to find a depressed person who's also very active.

Ha, i know a friend that takes anti depressent, his name is nathan hes a horny porno guy. ewoklover knows him, and hes testing a new drug for some random company and hes getting paid for it. thats soo cool.:D

Yoshi: yeah I have irritable bowel syndrome. Emon is spot on with the exercise bit, I wouldn't be able to exercise as regularly without the drugs. I've lost count of the number of times when my run switched from running for exercise to running to the nearest service station.

Plus it's hard to be enthused about most activities when the foremost question on your mind is: "So how far am I from the mens room?" These days it bugs me less since I work around it and I have drugs for it. But everyone usually has something wrong with them that screws their life around a bit, so I don't consider it to be that big of a deal.

I don't have depression. Just Oppression.

Am far too pissed to read the replies, but two of my friends have been taking AD's for the last two years at uni, and one is fine, the other is having a fantastic time!

So yeah, stick it out, lay off the drinkies and you'll be grand

IBS is frankly and literally, a major pain in the ***. I miss being able to eat proper mexican food.

are you ever sober?? :p

As for excercise, though it certainly helps, it's very hard to get motivated when getting out of bed is a serious struggle.

True, and it could be a lot worse. Could be a lot better though. :x

Not most nights - I'm bordering on alcoholism I reckon, but I don't want to threadjack

If you're just moping around going "boo hoo, I'm so blue," then you don't need antidepressants. It annoys me when people say "I don't believe in drug x" because for a percentage of the population (usually a huge minority...um, yeah) they really do work. Stuff like sleeping pills, antidepressants and Ritalin actually help people when they're used and prescribed properly. The problem happens when somebody reads a lifestyle magazine and totally misdiagnoses what's going on.

I hope that paragraph made sense. What I'm trying to say is that anti-depressants aren't at all fake - they correct a chemical imbalance in the brain. What *is* fake are the thousands of people who wake up and say "boy, I'm sure down about going to my stressful dead-end job. I must be depressed! I need medication!"

Ads for specific medications don't help much, either.

the man tracer - he speaketh the truth.

and sleeping pills worked for me the month before my driving test - i couldn't sleep for love nor money, and I damn well sleep like a corpse when i'm not a bucket of nerves!

Yeah, I personally don’t really like Anti-depressants. I had a good friend who came to me because she was suffering from some heavy depression. I did my best to help her, and in the end she agreed to see a therapist. The Therapist recommended some anti-depressants, and suddenly she bounded back. The problem was that the *real* causes and issues of her depression were never addressed. And because she no longer felt depressed she never seemed to want to try to seriously look at them or resolve them.

I also have suffered from some rather serious bouts of depression, but due to the experiences of the above mentioned person I was opposed to taking an anti-depressant. After a long time in therapy I finally agreed to a short, private trial run (I told no one else at the time that I was taking them, I even got the Insurance company to defer and disguise the billing so my parents would not find out). Week after week I saw no real effect, and the doctor kept upping the dosage until after two months I was taking 350mg of Anti-depressant a day (to quote my therapist, if you are not singing and dancing on this dosage, then no amount of this will help you). I know I am a very large person, but I did not notice any difference, and in discussion with the people around me neither did they.

I guess I just see anti-depressants as being mostly useless, and occasionally dangerous as they can obstruct attempts at truly solving problems. But that’s just my 2 cents.

(FYI Emon, one of the symptoms of heavy depression is a natural status of inactivity and lack of motivation to even do things you are interested in doing, so while activity may be a good depression prevention, it probably wont help someone who is already fighting it.)

I've never been on anti-depressants myself but my brother has been and they worked wonders (though, he never was a drinker, so that wasn't a problem for him) but yeah, a very noticeable difference

good luck with that!

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Is what they would take when,
High times opened their eyes,
Saw things in a new way.

...no ****. That's why you take the anti-depressant. Isn't that what I just said?