Is it worse to get an depression/anxiety prescription than to drink all the time?

a reply to: HalWesten

Antidepressants are addictive with a list of side effects ten times or more than what symptoms they're softening. And they're sure as hell no cure for anything.

a reply to: Traptomisprime

PM 4 U

If prescribed for the proper disease condition, they do work well. Most times adjusting diet works better in the majority of cases though. Most of the meds effect specific enzymes to do their work, usually they target some of the CYP450 enzymes. Enzymes like cyp2d6 and cyp3a4 are targeted along with others.Some are inhibitors, some are inducers, it depends on what they want to do.

Most times those meds are not prescribed properly, because the symptoms of many deficiencies or overloads in chemistry that causes the effects are similar. A specialist who knows a lot about these should be required to be the only ones that get people started and monitoring does need to be done for a while. The person on the meds sometimes cannot see that the meds might be messing with their thinking improperly, someone needs to monitor them, a family member, and report negative effects properly to the doctor.

A good doctor will follow up, trouble is you got fifteen minutes with the doctor, and a person tries hard to keep it together in the appointment. Doctors can't even see something is wrong. I tell people I know that started on them to have their family member keep an eye on them because they might not be able to tie things together if their mind is being messed up. Many people have genetic differences that make them worse or better metabolizers of things. Note too, that it could take a month or more for a poor or super metabolizer to show symptoms of a problem. If you cannot break down the med, the body will attempt to store the medicine or metabolite by locking it in fat cells so it does not poison the person. The negative effect can take months to appear.

a reply to: Traptomisprime

NO. It will not take that inner spark away. It will take the depression away, the anxiety, the guilt, the anger, and whatever other negative emotions.

Try it, you don't have to stay on it forever. And maybe all you need is a tiny little amount.

I am on two types of anti-depressants and they have saved my life and brought "me" back to life. PM me if you want to talk more. I HATE being on them, being dependent on them but it has saved my marriage, my mothering role/relationship and made me live again.

There are many types. All the very best.

a reply to: Peeple

You have never suffered from severe depression I can tell. It is hell, absolute hell and it steals everything and everyone away from you. It is not a choice to be clinically depressed.

And in fact, that is a very dangerous statement to make to people who really don't know what type of help there is out there.

a reply to: dantanna

Holy cow, seriously?

Cavemen didn't leave notes on their moods.

In the 1800's an unbelievable women were put in asylums by their families due to depression. And for menopause.

a reply to: hiddeninsite

I just don't believe swallowing a pill fixes the problem.
I believe in deep analysis, conversation and behavioural therapy, pills only for a period as short as possible to make the affected person open to real help.
Because it's a drug, it's poison just as much as alcohol.

It's most of the time not a biological/neurological issue. Only the mind can cure the mind.
Sure there are exceptions where there's no other option than medication. But 90% need time with no stress from the outside to face the trauma that caused it. Just that we're not interested in going the complicated path, because it would imply that we have to take a deep look at society too. So we just patch them up and send them back to battle. So high they don't feel the pain anymore, but bound to the same perverted messed up system that's slowly but surely making all of us sick.

My approach is to cure the root problem and not just getting high to "function" semi "normal".
Do I have the answer? No.
But drugs, alcohol, sex,... all the kicks and kinks are just the fundamentally wrong approach. And those "medicines" are drugs. Just because a doctor gives them to you doesn't mean they make you healthy.

a reply to: Peeple

Of course therapy is vital in situations like this.

Sometimes it takes more than just therapy alone. Until you personally have walked in the same shoes then you do not have the right to tell someone not to medicate. You can give your opinions sure, but to tell someone not to try medication is harmful.

I speak as one who has lost two family members who chose suicide, as a neighbor who lost two neighbors to suicide, as a sister who has watched one sister battle psychosis and many suicide attempts to end her life and as myself who obsessed about death until I received help.

Just as you are not qualified to speak as a mother until you have had a child, you are not qualified to speak about what the right thing to do regarding mental health unless you have had such a struggle.

Your self righteous opinion is null and void. Be of help and not a voice of closure.

a reply to: hiddeninsite

You're assuming that. You know nothing.

If I see a mother abusing a child, I don't have to be a mother to know what she's doing is wrong.

a reply to: Peeple

Peeple, I mean no harm or disrespect, but you aren't hearing what I'm saying and you aren't even trying.

Take care.

a reply to: Traptomisprime

The universe has made a perfect you, and you are it.

As imperfect as we may be: what's not ?

It's okay to just be the perfectly imperfect you !

If some can survive depression: why not you ?

originally posted by: dantanna
here is the cure.

1. work out everyday. gym everyday. you should lift 3 days a week. 1 day chest, 1 day back, 1 day heavy legs. cardio rest of the week.

2. eat all natural food. its simple. you can still eat burgers fries, chips. just buy ALL NATURAL.

3. socialize, hook up. if you gotta pay for it,pay for it. it will keep you sane.

4. turn off the newz

if you cannot afford a gym, then go running 30 minutes per day EVERYDAY for 1 month straight.
once you are addicted to the elevated endorphin levels, and maintaining youth and endurance, you will never look back.

when we were cavemen, no one was depressed. in the 1800s, no one was depressed.

you have too much time on your hands, thats all it is.

turn off the media, never ever watch the newz ever.

I can tell that you SERIOUSLY don't know anything about depression and anxiety.

1 - How do you work out when you're carrying 200lbs of dead weight on your shoulders?

2 - How do you eat natural foods when you have no appetite or a care in the world to even start?

3 - How do you socialize when you can't look someone in the face and fear every second of the thought?

4 - News has nothing to do with it. Many people with these issues don't even watch TV. Even then, TV is some help for some people because it mildly takes their issues off their mind.


Where you ever a caveman? Did you live in the 1800s? Too much time on our hands? Are you serious? How do you know?

Where did you get your arm chair doctorate from?


You guys that have all of these "cures" have no idea what it's like otherwise you wouldn't say such ignorant and stupid things.



OP - As some said, booze makes it worse

Pot can also make it worse - WAY worse. In fact, it can also induce it.

a reply to: hiddeninsite

NO. It will not take that inner spark away. It will take the depression away, the anxiety, the guilt, the anger, and whatever other negative emotions.

Especially if you're taking the right medication for you.

After a few months, your body will get used to the medication and many of those side effects will subside. For me, after many trials and wrong medications, I found the right combo but the first months had me wondering if it was even worth it. Memory went to hell - couldn't pull descriptive words out of my mind that I would normally use every day to make a sentence without trying really hard. There were other side effects as well but point is, it got better.


OP do what's right for you. It's most definitely better than drinking your sorrows away.

a reply to: Traptomisprime

My mom was an alcoholic. Now she is sober.
But she does take antidepressant and anti anxiety meds.

She is much happier and a better person today.

Alcoholism is #ing awful.

a reply to: Traptomisprime

First and foremost get rid of the alcohol, it's a depressant, the last thing you need right now. MJ is a good option to explore, its helped me tremendously. I've been on a few different meds for anxiety and depression which I never needed until I married someone with Manic Depression and extreme Bi-polar disorder, go figure. Klonopin was the last one and I've vowed never again, it was a nightmare to get off.

Make a doc appointment and go from there would be my best advice.

a reply to: dantanna

People were depressed in the past, suicide has always been an issue historically. It's worth noting that actual work towards mental health issues is historically recent thing. Depression and anxiety is a lot more than someone being in a rut.

They are good suggestions but there's no such thing as a cure all approach. There's ways your suggestions could have a negative impact because we're all different.