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wayne |
| bonnie knox wrote: | | Quote: | | Who in their right mind would tell someone who suffers from depression not to take their meds. |
Larry, I might be someone who would tell someone with depression to forego meds. (We can leave the debate of whether I'm "in my right mind" for another time.  )
I wouldn't say there is never a time to take antidepressants, but I have reasons for saying that in many cases they should not be used.
First of all, the serious side effects cause me concern. My dear high school math teacher was shot and killed by her sister-in-law who was on antidepressants. My dear cousin's husband (who was a beloved Pentecostal Holiness pastor) committed suicide while on meds, and I feel very certain it was a side effect of the meds and not just the underlying emotional/mental condition.
Also, some of the meds make permanent changes in the brain which set the patient up to have to stay on the meds.
Secondly, as I pointed out above, mild to moderate cases of depression respond just as well to a placebo! I think I had read in Consumer Reports on Health that talk therapy worked as well as drugs for moderate cases of depression. As suggested in the link I posted about the happiest man in the world, it is absolutely amazing what training our thought patterns can do to our brain. (And Larry, I bet you are a living example of the benefits of thinking positive thoughts!)
Thirdly, I have concerns that some people who are self described as depressed are being medicated without proper diagnosis. Furthermore, I think the diagnoses are probably too subjective in some cases.
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I find myself agreeing with Bonnie!!!  Where's my med's, I must be losing my mind. "This is the big one Elizabeth!!"
We just had a doctor in our area whose office was raided because he was the number one prescriber of antidepressants in Eastern Kentucky. He practices medicine in Northern Kentucky.
Prescriptions for these types of meds are legitimate in some cases but now they have turned into a legal form of relief from life. Dont worry about pot or heroline go buy some pain pills off the street. |
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| You can pretty much rest assured that anyone advocating against the prescription or use of antidepressants has never battled or dealt with clinical depression. As with most things, it is super easy to have opinions about things you have never known or experienced. |
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10/30/12 5:13 pm
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Carolyn Smith |
| Dave Dorsey wrote: | | You can pretty much rest assured that anyone advocating against the prescription or use of antidepressants has never battled or dealt with clinical depression. As with most things, it is super easy to have opinions about things you have never known or experienced. |
Agreed.
And you don't take pain pills for depression. DUHHHH
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10/30/12 8:39 pm
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She's funny. And the thing about the deacons with Viagra--well I read somewhere that 25% of the ED cases responded just as well to a placebo. I'm all for placebos! LOL.
When I told my son about the placebos working as well as antidepressants in cases of mild to moderate depression he laughed. I asked him why he thought it was funny. (I was thinking of the people who were taking it that could be doing as well without it.) He just thought it was very funny. I told him that when my cousin's husband killed himself, I told my sister I would rather be in an institution somewhere peeing on myself than taking a medicine that would make me suicidal. My son said if he ever had to authorize an antidepressant for me, he would authorize a placebo.  |
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10/30/12 9:08 pm
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Eddie Robbins |
| JLarry wrote: | Only if they suffer from depression.
Who in their right mind would tell someone who suffers from depression not to take their meds.
Praise God I have never battled depression but I have other issues and I take meds for them. |
How is the Viagra working for you Larry? |
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10/31/12 4:45 am
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bonnie knox |
| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | JLarry wrote: | Only if they suffer from depression.
Who in their right mind would tell someone who suffers from depression not to take their meds.
Praise God I have never battled depression but I have other issues and I take meds for them. |
How is the Viagra working for you Larry? |
You're bad, Eddie. But you know, I have wondered if marking your chest with a magic marker might work as well. I read about some research on sparrows. The females preferred the males with more heavily streaked breast. So when the researchers took a magic marker and added streaks to the breast of the males, those males mated more and had an increased level of testosterone. Just a thought.  |
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| Dave Dorsey wrote: | | You can pretty much rest assured that anyone advocating against the prescription or use of antidepressants has never battled or dealt with clinical depression. As with most things, it is super easy to have opinions about things you have never known or experienced. |
When I had a mild heart attack, I has a Angio-plasty done. Four days later I started feeling wierd like it was sugar lows. It blew out of proportion and I had depression x's 10. I didn't sleep one second for 3 days.I thought I was losing my mind. I never took anti-depression medicine, but I was perscribed sleeping pill that helped me. Any way, it's easy to sit back and pass judgement on others if it hasn't happened to you. I thought I was the last guy who would ever feel this way, but the way I felt for those few days, I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. |
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11/4/12 7:01 pm
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| I used to judge others until I started having anxiety attacks. Fits of emotional rage, nervous, angry, moody. Now on meds to help me with it. Things are better I think. Couldn't leave it alone. I know what I've been told. You must not be livin right if that artery got clogged. The human body is complicated and the brain is one organ that is still mysterious. I know that God can help, but we were given a mind and the ability to think. |
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They have helped one of my family members who suffers from an anxiety disorder.
A small tablet a couple of times a day helps to maintain some serious mental issues that plague my family member.
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