What medication are you on... ( Archived) (152)

ive told you ive looked zoloft isnt in the bnf so therefore not liscened here

I can only speak from my personal experience... and I'm thankful that there are anti-depressants in this world because medication along with other counselling has helped me get my life back.

West... I can understand where you are coming from, because I do also believe that doctors sometimes too easily hand out medication before trying other methods. There are definitely side effects from the medications as well, but it seems to me that people should be under better supervision to ascertain whether there are issues that need to be addressed.

I think that any treatment program needs to be monitored and that if medication is prescribed it should be combined with counselling to get the most effective results.

it works thats for sure

can you stay on that for life? they dont give bensodizapines out very much in this country

i've been taking Seroxat for the last 3 years and havent looked back since(seroxat is a form of prozac) there has been a long line of depression, Manic, Bi-polar, ocd, and severe anxiety to name a few, within my family from both sides of my parents.....
i tried all sorts of alternative ways to keep mine under controll to no avail, when i was younger before treatment I was self harming, suffering with an eating disorder, and had attempted suicide too the point of I died briefly and had to be resusitated...... this was very treaumatic to my family and my eldest son who would of been quite young, but still old enough for it to of taken an effect on his personality....
it took about three months for the seroxat to star to work on the imbalances within my brain but since then i have been perfectly normal
i have good days and bad just like every one else all within healthy boundarys....
what a lot of people don't realise is that a lot of depression is caused because the brain is producing insufficiant amounts of seratonin, (just like a dibetic with insulin) but once this is brought under controle the patient can live a full and normal life,
I personaly feel what ever works for you is great, but it realy takes an uneducated person to impose on people with these types of illnesses to come of thier medication.... would they tell a diabetic to stop thier injections NO as this can lead to death, well the same can be said for depression, where suicide is a very real risk.....
people need to read more and become more open minded to these things, some people are still living in the dark ages when some one with depression was sent to a mental asylum and left there to rot.....
Again, depression is a real illness with real symptoms and people need to realise it and stop sweeping it under the carpet as if its something to be ashamed of........ OK I'M GONNA TAKE A BREATH NOW!

fcryan

you are totally right i dont really want to say why because i dont want to talk about my past but everything you said is totallty true

I am wondering if you West have ever suffered from a period of depression? I'm not talking about grief when someone passes away... but a true period of months where you are depressed that it affects your daily ability to function.... eating, sleeping, socializing, work etc.???

THANK YOU...
I WILL SHOUT IT OUT LOUD FOR ALL TO HEAR
I SUFFERED WITH AN ILLNESS AND THANKS TO MEDICAL SCIENCE AND VERY GOOD FRIENDS I GOT THROUGH IT....no more cause i am
with my life,and who i am...
also I must add, it takes a very strong person to get through this kind of illness(not blowing my trumpet, honestly)but for the people who are still suffering there is a light at the end of the tunnel, reach for it, and when you get there pat your self on the back and aknowledge what you have come through, it is who you are....

totally agree with you, a mental illness i think is worse than some of the physical problems i had