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Anyone Taking Pills For Anxiety? (pg. 2)
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| Aiwendil |
| yeah, thanks for the sage advice "face your problems", that's really helpful, tard |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
im more happy that i upset you in some way |
:toothless
Good ol' Josh. |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aiwendil
yeah, thanks for the sage advice "face your problems", that's really helpful, tard |
wow. you got problems dude? |
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| fiya |
| anyone take paxil? i can't remember how many years i've been on it. |
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| raph93 |
| the only pills i take are called Paul Van Dyk & Armin Van Buuren :) |
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by fiya
anyone take paxil? i can't remember how many years i've been on it. |
I did from 2001-early 04. it's nasty nasty stuff, hell to come off, glad I am though.
I think what people forget about pills is they are needed in some cases, we know they're overprescribed, but there is a use for some people, myself included. I've struggled with nerves/anxiety/depression for 8 years and it's gradually got worse until i'm virtually housebound. to get to even simple appointments i usually have to take a diazepam (valium i think is the us term.) It's something that's hard to understand, and I can see why people won't, however, it is sometimes necessary, i've tried allsorts, hypnosis, therapies etc and it doesn't make it easier. Does that suddenly make me any less of a person ? I hope not, if anyone thinks any less of me because of it, well screw them.
I know many people don't understand, so i'll give a bit of an insight into situations.
1) - wake up, usually not sleeping the night before you know you have to go somewhere
2) get a sicky feeling, bad stomach etc, spend ages in the bathroom.
3) try to eat
4) try not to throw it back up
5) shower
6) closer to the time to leave, get shakes, find yourself dizzy, sweating, feeling like u have to goto the loo all the time. Add more sickness and anxious feelings.
I think the hardest thing is to understand why it happens, I honestly don't know, it just has, it began one day & gradually got worse. However many people don't understand the 'why' about it. That's fine by me but you have to think, how hard it actually is for people to get up & do things. I find myself feeling bad nearly 80% of the time. Forget social lives, forget having friends, they rarely get it. People think you should be able to just get up & do things, in an ideal world i'd agree. For anyone who knows someone who has these problems, just think, do they enjoy throwing up, being outcast, not being able to earn money, have lives without taking so many pills & 100x the willpower to do what seems a simple simple task ? If you think yes, then you're wrong, most of us would kill to be 'normal' so my thoughts would be this - don't understand why, fine, but don't just think they enjoy being like it, or should be treated any different.
sorry if I rambled, but I hope at least 1 person understand why sometimes these medicines are needed. Depression isn't just spoiling your favourite shoes or seeing your team lose, it's an illness, a disease, and everyone who has it, wishes they didn't |
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| Cobalt |
For some people, telling them to forego medication and sort it out on their own is much like telling someone with a broken leg to forego the cast.
Therapy and lifestyle changes should definitely be explored first, but in some cases those are useless without being supported by medication as well. Psycholgical illnesses are just as much diseases as any other; the difference is that their chemical roots are more complex, and difficult to understand because the brain is such an insanely complex system.
I am one of those cases. My life was torn to pieces while I flailed about trying to solve what was wrong with me on my own. Therapy and lifestyle changes did nothing, because it was a chemical problem. It took further time and money to figure out what worked for me, and finally, several years later, I'm in stable recovery. There were long spans of time where I thought that would never happen, but naturally I would have thought that.
I'll echo Ian^ in saying Paxil isn't too great. It failed me spontaneously after several months of use, and often has nasty withdrawl effects. I've been on Zoloft for, oh, about a year now, and it's worked well, allowing me to address psychological problems. Everything else I tried aside from those two (all non-SSRI drugs) failed.
Antidepressants are NOT a solution on their own. They MUST be accompanied by therapy. Psychiatry and psychology support eachother to prevent relapse. But in my case and so many others, medication was necessary to start the psychological component in any meaningful sense. |
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| fiya |
| quote: | | I'll echo Ian^ in saying Paxil isn't too great. It failed me spontaneously after several months of use, and often has nasty withdrawl effects. I've been on Zoloft for, oh, about a year now, and it's worked well, allowing me to address psychological problems. Everything else I tried aside from those two (all non-SSRI drugs) failed. |
people not always react to medication the same way. i tried zoloft & found that it didn't do anything for me; i tried celexa, same thing. paxil works best for me, you just can't miss a day otherwise your mood is effected so badly, that's why they have to ease you off of it when you're ready.
i've been seeing a therapist, hmm, since i was 18; for self-esteem issues. depression and anxiety can't be cured with a snap of a finger. my depression comes right from thinking that i'm ugly, fat, and not good enough...and then i sprung into my eating disorder.
it's funny because i thought being thin would bring me happiness, but i hated being so thin--i saw pictures of myself at my worst (87 pounds) and cried so hard for so long because i couldn't believe what i had done to myself. that was my turning point.
oh i didn't mean to make this so long.. and i started to trail off,oops.
/stops. |
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| Slylee |
| they are highly addictive so be careful. u grow a tolerance to them quickly too... |
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| sandstorm03 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian^
I take Citalopram (celexa in us) on 60mg a day
How does it work?
This medicine contains the active ingredient citalopram, which is a type of antidepressant known as a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). This type of medicine acts on nerve cells in the brain. In the brain there are numerous different chemical compounds called neurotransmitters. These act as chemical messengers between the nerve cells. Serotonin is one such neurotransmitter and has various functions that we know of. When serotonin is released from nerve cells in the brain it acts to lighten mood. When it is reabsorbed into the nerve cells, it no longer has an effect on mood. It is thought that when depression occurs, there may be a decreased amount of serotonin released from nerve cells in the brain. SSRIs work by preventing serotonin from being reabsorbed back into the nerve cells in the brain. This helps prolong the mood lightening effect of any released serotonin. In this way, citalopram helps relieve depression, panic and fear. It must be taken for at least 14 days before the benefits of treatment begin to appear and you start to feel better.
What is it used for?
# Condition of sudden attacks of fear, panic and confusion (panic disorder)
# Depression |
sounds like ecstacy (no joke) :P
Serotonin is also responsible for the feeling of "Love" when you see certin people...
anyway imo i think this is worse then doing nothing, but then again I don't know what you are feeling... |
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
they are highly addictive so be careful. u grow a tolerance to them quickly too... |
that's why with my diazepam, i only take them when I realy need them bigtime, aka flights, dr's appts, dental appts etc |
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| NiteMer |
| I've never been prescribed anything, for anxiety, but I get little spats, from time to time. It's usually the week after rolling though, so I mentally talk myself through it. I'm so busy, that it can be overwhelming, at times, but I'm not trying to get prescribed anything. I have taken Xanex, a couple of times, and I love that . That's why I would never want it too readily available. |
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