Today, I tried for 45 minutes to convince my psychiatrist to take me off my antidepressant. When he finally agreed to do so, I broke down into tears and sobbed uncontrollably for 10 minutes. Hello, increased prescription. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after constantly shaming me for my ADHD and anti-anxiety pills, my family finally convinced me to drop $250 on their trusted psychiatrist friend because they thought he’d talk me out of taking them. He recommended higher doses of everything. FML
Today, I reduced my psychologist to tears. FML
Today, my depression caused me to sleep through my appointment to try and get more antidepressants. We love mental instability. FML
Today, I finally convinced my mum to take me to a psychologist. As soon as he sat me down and asked me how I was doing, my mum burst into tears and went on a rant about how her life is terrible and she regrets everything. I was asked to sit in the waiting room. She used up my whole hour. FML
Today, I saw my specialist and I told her that one of my medications is messing with my head too much. I said that it’s making my depression so bad I have started cutting again, and want to walk in front of a truck. They said I just have to "suck it up". FML
Today, I had a anxiety attack about taking my anxiety medicine. FML
Today, my housemate picked me up from the psychiatric ward, after I'd spent ten days there with a major depressive episode. She said that she thought it rather odd that I'd gotten so bad, since she'd replaced my antidepressants with homeopathic pills. FML
Today, I'd built up the courage to talk to my doctor about anxiety, even rehearsing what to say. When she asked, “So what brings you in today?” I immediately burst into tears, said, “I don’t know,” then apologized for crying. She handed me tissues and said, “This happens a lot,” which somehow made me cry harder. FML
Today, my psychiatrist of 6 years suddenly and out of nowhere told me I need to see someone else. She gave me the equivalent of the "it's not you, it's me" speech. Actually her assistant told me via email. I basically got broken up with by someone I was paying a lot of money to talk to. FML
Today, I spent five hours sobbing in my room due to antidepressant withdrawal. My mother refused to come and talk to me, because I'm "a terrible, hateful child who only cares about herself." Last week, I spent two hours comforting her because my brother hadn't called in a week. FML
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lonkite101 14
Well..you need it, you'll get off of it soon enough, don't worry OP.
Abbyybba 0
There's nothing wrong with needing a little medication!!
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Comments (177)
gracehi 33
I can't imagine why someone would feel the need to convince a psychiatrist to stop prescribing them something they could just discontinue on their own initiative...UNLESS they HAVE to follow the doctor's orders because of a court order or something of that nature. If that's the case, OP, I suggest you just be honest with your psychiatrist and follow his advice without complaint. There's a reason you're seeing him.
xNephilim 19
Because it's dangerous as crap to just quit taking antidepressants. They make your body think it's perfectly okay and therefor produce all kinds of hormones that your sick (depression IS a disease) body would not normally produce. Getting off them without your doctor's help and advice would plunge your body into a sort of emergency stage and that would lead to all kinds of complications.
constipatedlady 0
Dangerous as crap? I crap everyday. Uh oh.
hayleywithawhy 5
I'm sorry. this is bad.. but I laughed at this..
bkkingkeokuk 1
I wouldnt tell anyone to stop tajing there meds but u can get the same htp5 or whatever it is in supplements like new mood by the onit labs
dtgr02 4
I don't recommend htp5 it can cause permanent irreversible damage to your liver. If u want try st John wort as natural herb
Iknoweverything 29
My psychiatrist didn't want to take me off my meds either, but rather, wanted to start me on a new med that had terrible side effects. I asked her for a lower dosage of my current meds, weaned myself off, and never looked back. HOWEVER, I've been doing accupuncture and exercising daily in order to justify going off my meds. If you aren't going to do extra work to combat your symptoms, you can't really justify going off medication. Having depression is hard. If you want to beat it without meds, you need to be able to do the work to beat it.
the_fun_one 0
I have depression too. Op you are not alone.
rldrship 0
I agree on some of the things that a few ppl had to say just because your "depressed" doesn't mean that you need medication if you want off te med don't take them n next time you go see you psychiatrist bring all the meds that you "suppose" to take and show him /her that you dont n didn't need them in the first place
CRC_101 31
If you are going to tell someone to go against their psychiatrist's orders without notifying him/her, at least tell them to decrease their dosage slowly. Even if they're perfectly mentally capable of living without medication, it's just reality that there are many medications that can cause serious mental or even physical reactions if the person just bluntly stops taking them.
Skinwalker131 5
Atleast you get the medication. Because I'm under 18 my parents say I don't need anti-depressants and I have all the symptoms. Only 4 more years...
yoursucklives 36
i wouldn't give my 14-year old child meds, that could probably make them addicted either. i know i don't know your story, but maybe it's just puberty?
Vivera2 6
Placebo effect discussion?
bioman250 10
At the very least ask for all natural anti depressants. Marijuana. There are far less lethal side effects. If you watch T.V. they recall three anti depressant drugs a month and advertise even more that spend half the commercial telling you about side effects. The only argument they can really throw at you for weed is, its illegal unless we say otherwise.
dominic1221 6
Weed's a depressant. What you're suggesting is no different from saying they should drink their sorrows away, and for that, you're borderline evil.
Azure_Sky 8
Well. Not many people need anti-depressents, as for people who are still in highschool that think they are depressed, you're not. Its just highschool. I was the same way, my psychiatrist thought that i needed to go on medication too. I did not. When you leave highschool things become a lot easier, trust me. Also, Just smoke weed. Smoking weed will help you far more than what some pill-pusher will prescribe you, dont believe me? try it. Worked for me.
unknown_user5566 27
106- You have no clue what you're talking about. I work at a high school and I work with many students who have an array of mental/emotional disorders, including depression. As far as weed goes, I have no problem with its medicinal use, but you have no business suggesting a "treatment". Furthermore, everyone is different; what worked for you may not work for someone else.