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 Jun 16 2004, 05:04 PM
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 Don't wake ghostie.  Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405  |
what's your opinion on this generation using a lot of anti depressants? more than any other generation? could it be similiar to taking riddilin? sometmes it seems like our answers are always medicine nowdays... do you think anti-depressants are wrong or/and unhealthy? i read an article about how they can actually hurt people even more.
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Jun 16 2004, 05:10 PM
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 Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
Some of people who take it, don't really need it... they should just take placebo pills.
People in the past have been depressed, and they didn't have any medicine to make them remotely happier, they just depended on their will... But if these pills can help save lives, as in prevent suicides or psychological problems for people, then I guess they're okay... |
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Jun 16 2004, 08:51 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 7,048 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 22,696 |
i agree with uninspired fae as long as it could save lives its good
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Jul 15 2004, 12:40 PM
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allie Group: Member Posts: 2 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 30,904 |
i was diagnosed with severe deppression and am now on anti-deppressants for it. i can see how they can be unsafe because if you are still deppressed but you have more energy (which they often give you, as stimulants), then you may be more likely to injure or kill yourself. however, they have really helped me so far and i think without them i would have killed myself... i think it really depends on the person, though, because i, for example, have close parental supervision and i see someone regularly. i also (now) have no desire to kill myself, so i think i'm pretty safe on them. but depending on your situation and your outlook on life, i don't think that all people that "need" them should take them, because they very well could make someone's life worse, and possibly even bring it to an end. it is not, however, the medicine's blame, because in the end, it is ultimately the person's choice to commit suicide. so yeah. i think it just really depends. if people weren't so stupid then they would be a lot more safe, but i also no that being deppressed can fog everything up and it's really hard to make the best decision, especially when it concerns other people who you think don't even love you to begin with, although chances are they do (i'm saying that suicide is completely selfish, because it really is if you think about it). anyway, i could go on forever, but i won't, but i'll sum it up with responsibility; |i| |a|m| my anti-drug.
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Jul 15 2004, 02:09 PM
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QUOTE(uninspiredfae @ Jun 16 2004, 3:10 PM) Some of people who take it, don't really need it... they should just take placebo pills. People in the past have been depressed, and they didn't have any medicine to make them remotely happier, they just depended on their will... But if these pills can help save lives, as in prevent suicides or psychological problems for people, then I guess they're okay... She's got a point, but I have to disagree with the fact that they are ok. Most people still commit suicide with these pills so technically it isn't helping them. The side effects are terrible and I think that there should be better ways of helping them. I heard that Paxil . . . or Prozac was banned in the UK. So why isn't it banned here in the US? I think that there should be more studies on them. |
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Jul 15 2004, 02:11 PM
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Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
QUOTE(inlonelinessidie @ Jul 15 2004, 2:09 PM) She's got a point, but I have to disagree with the fact that they are ok. Most people still commit suicide with these pills so technically it isn't helping them. The side effects are terrible and I think that there should be better ways of helping them. I heard that Paxil . . . or Prozac was banned in the UK. So why isn't it banned here in the US? I think that there should be more studies on them. Yea, I wonder why people still kill themselves while on anti-depressants...? |
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Jul 15 2004, 02:45 PM
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BANNED Group: Member Posts: 2,419 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,387 |
QUOTE(uninspiredfae @ Jul 15 2004, 12:11 PM) Yea, I wonder why people still kill themselves while on anti-depressants...? Yeah, sad isn't it. |
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Jul 15 2004, 03:08 PM
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 LunchboxXx Group: Member Posts: 1,789 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,810 |
anti-depressants are awful and i hate them. people are just being lazy now a days. if you're so sad about somthing do somthing about it! grades down? study! overweight? stop eating so much! girls/boys don't like you? stop caring!
i've been on anti-depressats and they changed me for the worse. i wasn't myself and it wasn't making any sense so i stopped taking them. and if somone wants to kill themselves that bad they won't give anti-depressants a chance. if they wanna die so bad, pills won't help them. it's alot of attention cravers who go around saying "i want to die" so their parents hop them up on the prozac. |
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Jul 15 2004, 03:52 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
yea i was on anti depressents and they completey changed me. Its like wearing a mask its pretty terrible.
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Jul 15 2004, 04:42 PM
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 ^ moo... Group: Member Posts: 962 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 25,212 |
OFCOURSE ITS UNHEALTHY.. wut kinda question is that?!
and if its unhealthy.. ofcourse its wrong.. there are better way to work depression out |
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Jul 15 2004, 04:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 646 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 30,847 |
QUOTE(uninspiredfae @ Jul 15 2004, 1:11 PM) Yea, I wonder why people still kill themselves while on anti-depressants...? anti-depressants mess with the chemicals in ur brain. the scary thing is the way they give you the medz (or at least how i got mine) was pretty much a guess and check. they think you have depression so they give you one of the thousands of depression pills out there. zoloft made me superactive for 3 hours then i'd pass out, completly worn out, then i'd wake up depressed. wound up having some kinda breakdown and could have seriously hurt myself. i think there should be better tests on determining depression and better methods of prescribing pills. if you need them i can understand using them. but a lot of times its just a phase. severe depression free for 6months now and counting. ^_^ thats a big step if you've been where i've been. |
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Jul 15 2004, 04:59 PM
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QUOTE(black_cloud10 @ Jul 15 2004, 2:48 PM) anti-depressants mess with the chemicals in ur brain. the scary thing is the way they give you the medz (or at least how i got mine) was pretty much a guess and check. they think you have depression so they give you one of the thousands of depression pills out there. zoloft made me superactive for 3 hours then i'd pass out, completly worn out, then i'd wake up depressed. wound up having some kinda breakdown and could have seriously hurt myself. i think there should be better tests on determining depression and better methods of prescribing pills. if you need them i can understand using them. but a lot of times its just a phase. severe depression free for 6months now and counting. ^_^ thats a big step if you've been where i've been. Yeah, that's what happened with my bro. Stupid doctors. |
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Jul 16 2004, 11:40 AM
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 speak without words Group: Member Posts: 395 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 15,622 |
blah..my friend's taking anti depressants...
he seemed fine in person before too..until i heard about his suicidal attempts before i met him and everything.. but anyway, i read an article about them and it said that if you stop taking the anti depressants, you'd become even more depressed and you have a higher chance of killing yourself..i personally think it's an alteration of the person's personality and it shouldn't be right. |
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Jul 16 2004, 12:20 PM
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 The Lemon Group: Member Posts: 100 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,215 |
I dunno, I heard that anit-depressants make you feel better for a while, but then it gets even worse. So then you take some more, but then you get worse. Then it just keeps on going until... yeah. >_<
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Jul 16 2004, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE(uninspiredfae @ Jun 16 2004, 5:10 PM) But if these pills can help save lives, as in prevent suicides or psychological problems for people, then I guess they're okay... My friend takes anti-depressants, and once I read the box and it said something like it might cause suicidal thoughts or something... |
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Jul 18 2004, 07:17 PM
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 hey you Group: Member Posts: 331 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,531 |
im on an anti-depressent for a disorder i have. and seriously, i dont think i would be where i am now without it. it was ruining my life, and i had to do something. my opinion is, if it truely helps people ultimately, then why not?" as long as you know what your doing and really have a problem, its truely beneficial.
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Jul 18 2004, 11:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 142 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 27,523 |
Zoloft has been verified that it may cause suicidal thoughts if people under the age of 18 uses it...there has been incidents where people commit suicide after using Zoloft...
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Jul 18 2004, 11:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 646 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 30,847 |
QUOTE(jarnifer @ Jul 18 2004, 10:49 PM) Zoloft has been verified that it may cause suicidal thoughts if people under the age of 18 uses it...there has been incidents where people commit suicide after using Zoloft... sheesh i wish someone had figured out before the doc put me on it!! i could have killed myself 
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Jul 19 2004, 02:39 PM
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 i'm too cool 4 school Group: Member Posts: 752 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,421 |
I am against anti depressent drugs.
Using drugs to cure a psycological problem is wrong. It teaches you to become dependant on a drug to make you feel better. You are not really healing because you depend on the drug to take the pain and depression a way. First you have to figure out what the problem is and be strong enough and serious enough to work through it without any false sense of hope. That is what come with anti depressans, a false since of hope. The person is not really healed because they don't even know what the problem is and how to fix for real. Also what happens when the person becomes dependant and addicted to the drud? Do you give them another pill to get them off the drug? What happens when it is not stong enough the "cure" the persons problem? |
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Jul 19 2004, 02:55 PM
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 iGackt Fan! Group: Member Posts: 296 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 24,742 |
QUOTE(onenonly101 @ Jul 19 2004, 1:39 PM) I am against anti depressent drugs. Using drugs to cure a psycological problem is wrong. It teaches you to become dependant on a drug to make you feel better. You are not really healing because you depend on the drug to take the pain and depression a way. First you have to figure out what the problem is and be strong enough and serious enough to work through it without any false sense of hope. That is what come with anti depressans, a false since of hope. The person is not really healed because they don't even know what the problem is and how to fix for real. Also what happens when the person becomes dependant and addicted to the drud? Do you give them another pill to get them off the drug? What happens when it is not stong enough the "cure" the persons problem? Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Anti-depressants have been known to balance the chemical imbalance. Not everyone needs to take anti-depressants though. I believe anti-depressants were 'invented' when a psychologist had some patients with depression to a hot spring that had contained this mineral (I can't remember... URGH!). The patients seemed to be normal. I am for anti-drepessants... I plan on being a psychiatrist so this is a very interesting topic. |
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Jul 19 2004, 03:05 PM
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i'm too cool 4 school Group: Member Posts: 752 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,421 |
I believe yes sometimes it is a chemical imbalance. But there is no chemical imbalance when someone becomes depressed because something tragic just happened in their life. It is more of a way of dealing. Also i believe that there are so many mis diagnoses with depression. But i still believe that it gives you a false sense of being okay. And it should be required(i'm not sure if it is) to be attending counseling while taking the drug.
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Jul 20 2004, 12:35 PM
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iGackt Fan! Group: Member Posts: 296 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 24,742 |
QUOTE(onenonly101 @ Jul 19 2004, 2:05 PM) I believe yes sometimes it is a chemical imbalance. But there is no chemical imbalance when someone becomes depressed because something tragic just happened in their life. It is more of a way of dealing. Also i believe that there are so many mis diagnoses with depression. But i still believe that it gives you a false sense of being okay. And it should be required(i'm not sure if it is) to be attending counseling while taking the drug. Many patients attend counseling during the period they take anti-depressants... |
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Jul 21 2004, 12:14 PM
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 i adore you Group: Member Posts: 186 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 32,691 |
happy pills...those are def. okay with me [[since i use them//prescribed, dont worry]] they prevented me from commiting suicidal and homocidal acts...dont ask. but they definitely help...
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Nov 15 2005, 03:00 PM
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 Toria Group: Member Posts: 177 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 207,588 |
I think there iz 2 sides to this story too... most ppl still have problems after being on them but then again alot of ppl also dont know what to do with theirself if they are depressed but I still think ppl should just take them...srry if this dont make sense I am way tired today
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Nov 15 2005, 04:57 PM
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I think it is okay as long as they are also in counseling while taking the medication. That is what they are going to do for me.
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