Posted by Questionmark on November 29, 2007, at 23:27:11
In reply to If you could go back - To questionmark, posted by deniseuk190466 on November 19, 2007, at 8:03:07
Hi Denise.
These are questions i have thought about a lot. And i'm not sure about a lot of it. But i am fairly certain that i am one of those people who needed to be on something and who would overall do better with medication than without. One thing i definitely would have done differently is not go on such a high dose of Paxil (US Seroxat) back in the day. And, it's hard to tell for sure, but i think i might be a lot better off if i got on Nardil a lot earlier in my life than i did. And i think i probably wish i would not have been prescribed so much Ritalin, if at all, when I was 14.
Probably more than you wanted to hear, but, yeah.
Also, if you were suicidally depressed before getting on antidepressants, and you feel terrible when getting off them now, you probably need to be on something. My suggestion, of course, is give Nardil a try. But at least stay on an SSRI, or something, and maybe try augmenting.
> Hi,
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> I'm responding because I read your first note and could really identify with it.
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> I try to come off Seroxat and I'm ok for the first two weeks even though I have awful withdrawal affects but I always sort of convince myself that as soon as they go away, I'll be ok. But the truth is I'm not I'm horribly depressed and anxious, wretching all the time etc, to the extent that I couldn't even kill myself if I tried. With cognitive therapy or no therapy it couldn't help me come off them
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> It would be nice to be able to say that SSRIs had caused this but if I could go back to six years ago I was suicidal and I really don't know what else I could have done to help myself apart from medication. As far as I was concerned I'd been doing everything right, sleeping sensibly, eating sensibly etc etc and I really don't know what else I could have done.
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> If you could go back to when this started is there anything do you think that you could have done anything differently do you think that there is anything you could have done rather than go on the medication merry go round?
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> Denise
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