What are your experiences with mental health medications like?

What are your experiences with mental health medications like?

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Always refused them lol. If you take them, you're a submissive, mentally weak faggot

Was on the highest dose of a fucking miserable anti psychotic. Almost off all meds but 7 years of hardcore meds have physically ruined my brain.

Got them forced on me, they're gay and dumb. Fuck em.

They ruined my life and nearly killed me. They're why i'm mentally ill in the first the place. I honestly should have a lawsuit against seroquel

Mental health medication is just sedatives you just become dumb and apathetic

>What are your experiences with mental health medications like?

Never tell a physician you're mentally ill or let on you're suicidal or have similar problems.

If you think your life is bad under depression, it will be ten times worse once it goes on your permanent medical history.

They didn't really do much for me so I stopped taking them. Therapy is more effective for my condition. I can't speak on meds for everyone.

Makes you sleepy.
Probably makes your condition worse.
You can't hold your hands still. Ever.
Less talkative.
Can potentially turn you very emotional.
or Emotionless.

The impression is one day when you stop taking the medicine, your body will rebalance itself, like a scale, but with certain medicines, they have to slowly reduce the dosage until it is safe enough to stop taking it all together.

Otherwise, you get withdrawal.
Not all medicines are like this, or give these effects, but some of the ones I have had.
The medicine isn't addictive, its just something added to the daily schedule that is important.

Honestly, I wonder if the medicine would have worked for me if I had a healthy social life, with friends, had ambitions, was good at something that other people enjoyed me being good at that encouraged me,
Or had dreams that could be made reality with enough help from people i could trust.

But pills only work if you have quite a few things on that list.

I was going to go to the doctor and try to get help, but I've learned that they will just hurt me more. The only cure that'll work for me is death

I tried taking Cipralex for anxiety and it made me WAY worse.
Worst part was I couldn't even tell what was happening to me.
I started self harming like an emopussy, and started getting suicidal. Never did such a thing before, or since.
The only way I got off of that shit was I stopped leaving my apartment all together and couldn't get the prescription refilled.
And man the cold turkey withdrawal from that drug SUCKED.
Now I'm aware that I'm bipolar 2 but I refuse to take any medications for it. Plus I love my manic episodes, it actually gets me sex sometimes.

>Chemical imbalance

Unless they examined your brain while you weren't looking, these "chemical balancing" drugs are a crock. A change in cognition will serve you better. How that comes about is the difficult part.

That's my dive bar opinion anyway, I ain't a health professional. lol

All the good shit that actually helps is hard to get because people abuse it. Stuff like stims and benzos can be very helpful if used properly and sparingly

i hate anti-psychotic medication and want to get off it as soon as possible

I've heard it can ruin your mental permanently. Makes you sort of zombie-like.

That was enough for myself to stay away from anti-depressants. Although I really need to do something about my mental state, meds don't seem like the correct route.

I've been on over 10 different anti-psychotics. I'm currently on Clozapine, it's the best one I've ever been on.

I'm also on sodium valproate, metformin and zoloft.

>I was going to go to the doctor and try to get help, but I've learned that they will just hurt me more.

If you're going to try something before you pull the trigger, I'd try some weed or CBD oil if you haven't. May help - if you feel like helping yourself.

I took lexapro for a bit
I felt tired all the time and it felt like I wanted to be sad but my brain would not allow me to, but every now and then I would mix my meditation with alcohol which probably did not help. Ive currently been off meds and tried cannabis oil to cope but I may go back to antidepressants not too sure

They're all shit except for one.
And that one also didn't work as intended but as a side effect it gave me the most wonderful dreams I ever had and probably ever will have.
I would be happier during the day solely because I was looking forward to getting home and going to sleep so I could return to dreamland.

Unfortunately something in my brain chemistry happened and the dreams stopped. I even tried quitting the drug for a few months and starting again but all I got were the brainzaps that accompanied it before but now with no dreams. Never bothered going back to the psychiatrist but it feels like those few first months on Viibryd was an important chapter in my life.

isn't it true that like nearly every mass shooter has been on some kind of antidepressant?

Correlation doesn't equal causation.
All mass-shooters also drink water.

oh fuck off pill popper

When I was 8 years old my parents started me on a regimen of amphetamines because I liked goofing off in class (2nd grade). Now I'm 30 and a brain dead wreck without it.

I kinda sometimes wish it wasn't like this.
Other times I like to think of myself as like a Jekyll and Hyde kinda character to feel better.

I do think it's bullshit that some parent's would rather sell their kids to pharmaceutical companies than, you know, be a parent.

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they dont fix your life, which is why all the effects are temporary and they have to change the pill or dose, always saying "this new one is so good" just what they siad about last one
I was on them for 16 years starting at age 14 and all they did was set my mental health progreess abck 16 years, because I wasnt able to work on really imporving till then.
possibly the biggest welsh trick ever.
sadness is redefined as depression
shy is redefined as anxiety.
so they give you pills instead of having you work on your life

>But pills only work if you have quite a few things on that list.
This is how I feel. I took meds for a year one time in high school, then like 9 months my first year of college.

I didn't feel any different. Girls didn't suddenly talk to me more. I didn't suddenly discover a passion or dreams. I wasn't more outgoing and, even if I was, it was through my own effort nobody cared.

None of em' fuckin' work. Ever.

they had me taking aripiprazole,risperidone, and benztropine.lol not all at once. when taking them my body would spazz out, felt i was losing control, and couldnt sit still for the life of me. I stop taking them and stopped going to therapy feel alot better now

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Eh I try to avoid them, never seemed to do much for me

You say that like anyone enjoys taking these mind-rotting drugs
They get forced onto people who are looking for a way out of their mental illness and they never work. SSRIs and antipsychotics exist only to sedate the mentally ill and render them a nonthreat
Unlike amphetamine or benzos or other prescribed drugs, they have zero recreational use
Also you'll find that a majority of those who enter into any kind of psychiatric evaluation will exit with some kind of diagnoses and prescription
The mental health industry is about finding problems where there may or may not be some and in response sell as many of their expensive services and products as possible

Depression is reality. That's what I tell myself, anyway. If someone can feel happy in the modern day, devoid of purpose besides hedonistic consumption, they are a fucking monster that never deserved the label of "human" in the first place. Anti-depressants exist to keep you in line and stop you from taking your life or draining the government of taxes. They just make you fat and empty, like a good piggy that is waiting for its turn on the chopping block. Hideous.

How the fuck is being fully depressed with no aide less zombie-like?
You're a fucking NPC.

>How is feeling bad different to feeling nothing?
Duh, I dunno, genius. Fuck, you're so smart.

Walk it off, preteen. That's not depression

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>Preteen
Cunt, constant existential angst to the point of mental exhaustion is a big part of depression. Meds just turn you into a malleable clay figure and deny you the harsh reality you live in.

Currently taking prozac. Not really sure if they're helping or not, honestly I don't feel like I can tell much of a difference.

One thing I do notice is that it's lowered my sex drive.