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After failing to become spono, I regressed from society and skateboarding to become a mathematician.
Got put on anti-depressants over a year ago for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Stopped taking them about 8 months ago and coming off them was the hardest thing ever, if i had of known about the withdrawal symptoms and the constant brain zaps every couple of seconds which lasted for a month i would never have taken them in the first place
pretty dangerous thing to post on a public forum dez.
Anti deps save lives-fact.
Brain zap??
Yeah because i stopped taking them abruptly i experienced Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome and i kept getting these really intense electric shock sensations in my head, some days were worse than others the zaps sometimes affected my whole body and i had trouble standing up and walking.
Anti depressants have been proved to increase thoughts of suicide in the first few months of taking them. Never understood where the common sense is giving suicidal people medicine that makes them more suicidal.
Sure they probably have helped loads of people but I'm sure they have pushed some over the line. Doctors are so quick to chuck people on meds.
I've had friends on anti depressants and they said they made them feel pretty shocking after about a week on them.
I'm not a fan of Anti Depressants what so ever... In a lot of cases I've seen, people are prescribed Anti Depressants when they're depressed about something they could fix in a long term aspect, but in the short term they feel depressed an doctors simply give them pills to cope. The problem is that the pills then mask reality into making the patient believe everythings fine, making them feel a fake happiness with whats going on around them thus the patient never making the initial step to work on the issues that were troubling them in the first place, therefor never actually fixing the problem for themselve and resulting in being in a constant loop...
Like most medications out there, they vary for different types of people, anti-depressants work, but the problem doesn't always lie in a uncontrollable chemical inbalence, it could simply be fixed with a long term effort in working on things that trouble you.
Dez, 8 months is a long time to be commited to a pill, I'm sure it was hard as fuck to drop them, but I think you've done the right thing mate, take it from someone who hit rock bottom a couple of years back after being labelled with Aspergers, its not easy to overcome your issues/troubles but the important thing is to not let a stupid label for something others say is 'wrong' with you and acknowledge that its just how you are and every person is unique.
The sooner you realise your faults, the sooner you will work on them and become a stronger person.
I plopped out and went to pre school. They said they wanted us to bring in toys, i brought my bike in. Next thing the teachers had benched me whilst all my peers were running about and some mf was on my bike. Hated him, hated it. My bicycle had been violated. Later on during nap time i pulled the kid outside, knocked him out, buried him in the sandpit. He couldnt breath under all that sand. Then i got crayons, drew lovely patterns on my face. On the outside of the buildings entrance were two large circular door handles that the fire extinguisher neatly slotted into. As flames took hold of the structure, i pulled out one id rolled earlier and sat puffing on that for a bit, just listening. Then i took my bike down to the river. You're dead to me i said and watched as the handle bars disappeared beneath the water.
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mental illness thread
potii 13:37 10/Nov/14
After failing to become spono, I regressed from society and skateboarding to become a mathematician.
dez 09:52 21/Nov/14
Got put on anti-depressants over a year ago for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Stopped taking them about 8 months ago and coming off them was the hardest thing ever, if i had of known about the withdrawal symptoms and the constant brain zaps every couple of seconds which lasted for a month i would never have taken them in the first place
ChiefBEN 15:40 22/Nov/14
pretty dangerous thing to post on a public forum dez.
Anti deps save lives-fact.
Brain zap??
dez 02:05 23/Nov/14
Yeah because i stopped taking them abruptly i experienced Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome and i kept getting these really intense electric shock sensations in my head, some days were worse than others the zaps sometimes affected my whole body and i had trouble standing up and walking.
milky joe 09:54 01/Dec/14
Anti depressants have been proved to increase thoughts of suicide in the first few months of taking them. Never understood where the common sense is giving suicidal people medicine that makes them more suicidal.
Sure they probably have helped loads of people but I'm sure they have pushed some over the line. Doctors are so quick to chuck people on meds.
I've had friends on anti depressants and they said they made them feel pretty shocking after about a week on them.
imgne_ 11:39 02/Dec/14
I'm not a fan of Anti Depressants what so ever... In a lot of cases I've seen, people are prescribed Anti Depressants when they're depressed about something they could fix in a long term aspect, but in the short term they feel depressed an doctors simply give them pills to cope. The problem is that the pills then mask reality into making the patient believe everythings fine, making them feel a fake happiness with whats going on around them thus the patient never making the initial step to work on the issues that were troubling them in the first place, therefor never actually fixing the problem for themselve and resulting in being in a constant loop...
Like most medications out there, they vary for different types of people, anti-depressants work, but the problem doesn't always lie in a uncontrollable chemical inbalence, it could simply be fixed with a long term effort in working on things that trouble you.
Dez, 8 months is a long time to be commited to a pill, I'm sure it was hard as fuck to drop them, but I think you've done the right thing mate, take it from someone who hit rock bottom a couple of years back after being labelled with Aspergers, its not easy to overcome your issues/troubles but the important thing is to not let a stupid label for something others say is 'wrong' with you and acknowledge that its just how you are and every person is unique.
The sooner you realise your faults, the sooner you will work on them and become a stronger person.
1000 12:05 16/Dec/14
I plopped out and went to pre school. They said they wanted us to bring in toys, i brought my bike in. Next thing the teachers had benched me whilst all my peers were running about and some mf was on my bike. Hated him, hated it. My bicycle had been violated. Later on during nap time i pulled the kid outside, knocked him out, buried him in the sandpit. He couldnt breath under all that sand. Then i got crayons, drew lovely patterns on my face. On the outside of the buildings entrance were two large circular door handles that the fire extinguisher neatly slotted into. As flames took hold of the structure, i pulled out one id rolled earlier and sat puffing on that for a bit, just listening. Then i took my bike down to the river. You're dead to me i said and watched as the handle bars disappeared beneath the water.
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