Don't take meds. The only way in which they assist your depression is by making you not give a flying **** about anything.
Don't depend on them for anything. I have faith that you can crawl out of your black hole of depression without the necessity of drugs.
edit//and I'm sure your girlfriend will be more than happy enough to assist.
Thanks Lil, but my problems stem from doing exactly that XD.
:3 I don't care about anything, and now I can't even if I wanted to XD.
Seriously. A bus nearly slammed into the drivers side of my car when some ******* cut me off, and I didn't even get adrenaline, fight or Flight, anger, nothing, and the ****ing bus was 2 feet from my face.
I was just like, "Lol. Bus. That would've sucked."
=] I am doing what I can without the drugs for now though, and yes, Sandra is helping.
>___>
Tell that to the paranoid schizo who needs his meds to be a stable and functioning member of society. Do I also need to mention that he's depressed, too?
Actually, certain anti-depressants won't do more than give you dry mouth and diarrhea. As someone who has taken them for X amount of years, I have endured the side effects. Just follow the little instructions on the label and you'll be a-okay. Don't try to go cold turkey off of that ****, though. When I was living on my own and unable to afford prescriptions, I had to stop taking my Zoloft rather abruptly. It made me very ill afterward (yet I still didn't miss a day of work; go figure).
Sorry if I sound defensive or anything. You guys are both right to a certain point; most of the **** is in your head and 90% of the time it's up to you to pull through. Anti-depressant meds are far from being just a placebo treatment, tho'. They do help to a certain point. In the end, though, it falls on you to want to pull through.
Smooth Criminal
:3 Yea. I took my first thing of Celexa last night...yea, I went right into full doses, and skipped the start up doses by accident.
So I got totally mauled by nausea and dizziness. So I left school half-way through the day.
By deal, you mean sex, right?
I'm depressed.
Depression has been known to make sexual activity difficult.
>_>.
One last thing about depression: I used to have alot of the misconceptions that have been voiced in this thread about medication, about it "all being in your head", etc. But depression is a real medical condition, which is why real medicine exists for it. Telling someone not to take the right kind of medication for their depression is like telling someone not to take Tylenol when they have a headache.
Modern medicine exists for our benefit, but apparently some people think that it's just some huge scheme to trick you into thinking you have some kind of imaginary condition so that pharmaceutical companies can get your money. Those elements are there, to be sure, and there are always side-effects, but the benefits of modern medicine and appropriate medication far outweigh the risks involved.
=D This.
The thing about the medicine associated with depression is how ambiguous it really is. Every human brain is completely different from another and medication works in different ways from person to person.
At least that's what I remember my family doctor telling me.
>_> I have plenty of experience with that.
The fricken disease that the
OTHER doctors keep trying to treat is the exact same way, just not located in my brain.
@_@ So yea! Its like playing Double Russian Roulette.
Good ****.
Enough ranting, back on topic with Smash:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=195696
I don't know which is more surprising: that people are banning Metaknight, or that there are people in New Orleans to begin with.
SO IT BEGINS!
Also, I like how no one is complaining about his Ban.
Kinda cause he deserves it.
So I played melee today.
My controller seems to get more and more broken every day.
T_T NO MORE UP THROW.
MEWWWTTWWWOOOOOOOOO<//////////3
-DD