<p>i just feel like p*ss going down the drain. After a post traumatic event and realising something really bad that I realised too late just life stopped making sense for me. I do not enjoy any things I have enjoyed before. I have no friends. I have been thinking about death recently, Especially the most painless and fastest. Cyanide gas. I wake up every morning with some anxiety. </p>
<p>I went to annual physical examination with blood test and told my doctor about my emotional problems. She recommended me to take citalopril for some time and once I would start I would be under observation to see if the drug has positive effect. She was really concerned about me thinking ending my life even though I never planned it. Should I give it a try. BTW my clinic is associated with Northwestern Hospital in Chicago, which I heard is one of the best hospitals in nation.</p>
<p>I would get the pills and sell them. The money you will make will act as a natural antidepressant :)</p>
<p>money are not solution for all problems. I do not even enjoy watching movie theatres as I used to enjoy a lot before.</p>
<p>Why don’t you have any friends, if you don’t mind me asking?</p>
<p>They’ll help. You might feel some side effects for a few days, but they probably won’t be too bad. You’ll just feel the way you have before the depression set in. There is no high to them or anything.
No one has to know, if that’s what you’re worried about.</p>
<p>Antidepressants may make you feel better about not having friends, but they won’t give you friends. </p>
<p>There is no magic pill to make all of life’s misfortunes go away, if that is what you are asking.</p>
<p>^ They can make you more motivated to make friends.</p>
<p>^ Didn’t think of it that way… but I still doubt how practical that theory is. However, if you have taken antidepressants, by no means should I be telling you what affect they will have.</p>
<p>Well you certainly want to go in a positive direction with your health. A few weeks ago I was taking anxiety pills, Ativan or somesort. Though the perscription have long been gone, and I have been living without Ativan since. I’m not sure if Ill be recommanded them when I go back to the doctos. I don’t really feel like I have anxiety problem ( or maybe did), but never a panic attack, or server ( or even mild that I can think of) anxiety. So make sure you know whats really wrong with your health.</p>
<p>Though reading OCD, and looking at my past ( not sure of now) I do recall/ think I may have had OCD… which my sibling implies that I do.</p>
<p>I have extremely mild OCD. I’m self-diagnosed, though ;)</p>
<p>Please don’t (only) get your advice here.</p>
<p>^ Seconded. You might be surprised how much people in real life care. Talk to your family.</p>
<p>I suggest you read the book Prozac Backlash. The truth is their is no scientific evidence that SSRI’s, MAOI’s, etc do anything greater than what a placebo can do. But don’t trust me, do your own research and read the book. Its quite good and deals with all anti-depressants and not just Prozac. </p>
<p>Also just because you went to a good hospital says zero about the doctor. The best hospital in the world can have the worst doctor for your needs and the **** hole in the inner city could have had the doctor that could help you and save your life.</p>
<p>Before you get the prescription, ask the doctor this question.</p>
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<p>Most doctors will tell you the truth. Also directly ask your doctor if she takes handouts and gifts from pharma companies. Questions are your friend.</p>
<p>“Talk to your family”</p>
<p>…Or to your pet goldfish :)</p>
<p>I’d rather die twenty years later because of antidepressants while having a happy life in between those years than be miserable for the rest of my life.
It’s a double edged sword, take your pick.</p>
<p>Why are therapist not considered anymore. Talk Therapy has a very high success rate(80% I think) and it is permanent in 98% of cases. Psychoactive drugs have a low success rate and nearly all patients eventually fall back into their state.</p>
<p>Did I forget to mention that psychoactive drugs such as SSRI’s actually do nothing for depression or anxiety. No scientific evidence exits of them actually doing what they claim.</p>
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<p>They are used along with medication. If anything, some people only use therapists, but their problems aren’t as severe. Therapy alone takes much longer and most people don’t have years to solve their problems. Most people would like to move on as quickly as possible.</p>
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<p>It seems to work with OCD, an anxiety spectrum disorder.</p>
<p>Actually almost all research shows that the combination of drugs and therapy only hinders the process, compared to therapy alone. </p>
<p>Seems to is not scientific. There is no scientific proof that any of these drugs actually work. Unless you consider feeding a rat a SSRI and putting its brain in a blender and then testing serotonin levels of its chopped up brain science that is.</p>
<p>^ It helped me. Trust me, I’m a lot better with it. I would be a lot more annoying and draining without it. I’m not the only one who was actually helped by an antidepressant.</p>
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<p>Same here. I’m taking an SSRI for anxiety/OCD, and it certainly helps more than if I were only doing therapy. I actually was prescribed it because therapy alone wasn’t doing enough. </p>
<p>I don’t know about all medicines and diagnoses, but for me, and I assume other instances of SSRIs being prescribed for OCD, the way the medicine worked was to oil the gears, for lack of a better phrase. It did nothing on it’s own to improve my anxiety/OCD, but it made it easier for me to respond to the anxiety/OCD through therapy, techniques learned in therapy, etc.</p>
<p>In regards to the research showing that drugs+therapy isn’t as good as therapy by itself, do you know how the studies were conducted? Did they focus on particular therapy styles, particular medicines, particular diagnoses, etc.? Did the patients get the same amount of therapy in each situation? Were the medicines adjusted for effectiveness over the course of the studies, or did the patients have to take the same dose of the same medicine the entire time?</p>