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Do antidepressants work?
Nonameanymore:
Sorry to hear about your sister SL.
I don't really know much on the subject but uncle A who only threaten to kill himself was not an N, and uncle B who actually succeeded had a lot of N issues. And I mean a lot.
I sincerely hope your sis gets better somehow.
Can you not persuade her to seek talk therapy or some other form of help to deal with the withdrawal problems?
(This is from wikipedia: (I didn't know Cymbalta, but now I do...)
A suicide of 19-year-old Traci Johnson, a healthy volunteer in a duloxetine clinical pharmacology study, was highly publicized. For about a month she had been given high doses of duloxetine, and then she was switched to placebo. Four days after the switch, she hung herself in the bathroom of Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research.[64][65] The New York Times article mentioned a withdrawal syndrome as a possible reason for this suicide)
SilverLining:
--- Quote from: Hountini on August 09, 2011, 02:09:21 PM ---I sincerely hope your sis gets better somehow.
Can you not persuade her to seek talk therapy or some other form of help to deal with the withdrawal problems?
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Thanks H. Like most everything with my FOO, it's a mess. Withdrawal from AD's is complicated by her hypochondriacal tendencies. Any discomfort drives her to seek an instant medical solution, which means she needs a drug to get her through the withdrawal from drugs. And there is little help from the medical establishment, which barely acknowledges the possibility of problems caused by quitting AD's (withdrawal symptoms come from messy illegal street drugs, not the high tech products of the pharma industry). Some medical professionals have suggested talk therapy for her, but none has(to my knowledge) ever even hinted of any possible downside to the chemical program.
On the positive side, she seems to be fairly stable lately, and the weird events with my mother in the last year have jolted the sibs into some discussion of the family issues. So maybe this will be the start of some real brain "rewiring".
Nonameanymore:
Sincerely wishing you a speedy 'rewiring' SL! :D
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: Hountini on August 09, 2011, 06:44:30 AM ---Right on Bones! Lately more and more I believe that taking ANY pill is not going to solve the problem. Pain is here to show you that something isn't right in your body and you should check it.
Yes, I am familiar with the 'why can't you get over the past'. It usually comes from 'textbook knowledge only' therapists....
Talking about the 'get a man', I was also told by the psychiatrist who gave me the fluoxetine that even if I didn't feel like being intimate with my ex-fiance, it didn't mean a thing and that I should remember the song 'Yes, I am great pretender', as if saying 'no, we shouldn't look at why you don't want to have sex but that you should force yourself to do it anyway'. Jeez, I had completely forgotten about this one!
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Thanks!
Made me think that these "textbook knowledge-only therapists" are complete IDIOTS!!!! :P
Bones
Meh:
Honestly I think a big part of my anxiety or depression in life has been essentially not knowing "where do I belong, where do I fit in, where is my home, who are my people, who do I belong to, where is my constellation that gravitationally holds my life together, maybe belonging and identity issues had a lot to do with the depression...and fear of the worst.
I hate to think that I have not experienced the worst yet, but I'm experiencing things I never thought I would ever so I guess I'm living out some of my fears and I wonder if that experience negates some of the depression.....I don't know.
Once I started getting the pills the only things doctors ever considered was increasing my dosages.
I don't take them now and even though I am very troubled in my life I don't feel that at this point they would enhance my wellbeing enough to justify putting the strange substance into my body any longer. I don't care if I get fewer tasks done. I get a few essential things done. Not every person is an energizer bunny...and why the heck should a person have to be?
There is a coffee sign that says "Do more stupid things faster".
Maybe this is depression speaking but for God's sake A LOT of what goes on in life, in the human world is STUPID.
Tremendously important stupid stuff that MUST get done or else.
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