People who say their lives have been ruined by commonly prescribed antidepressants, known as SSRIs, are taking their case to Parliament on Wednesday. Claire Hanley says she tried to take her own life after taking them.
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Unfortunately sometimes u need it like me in my case๐ข.
Jesus is not God. Just use your brain. God pass through the vaginal canal, breast fed and had nappies changedโฆ Please stop it. God is One and no need of partners.
Itโs so sad people turn to medication first and not God. I had extreme anxiety and panic attacks my heart would race and depression and I prayed hard for 2 weeks and now Iโm fine. Praise God!
The worst problem for people is when they try to get off them. Before even attempting to stop taking them PLEASE checkout Dr Mark Horowitz (psychiatrist). He advocates for people in withdrawal from antidepressants. He also has personal experience getting off them. The standard psychiatry withdrawal protocol is based entirely on a study of people using antidepressants very short term ONLY. The protocol is very misleading and extremely dangerous. You have been warned!!
21 years later I am STILL feeling like that.
I'm on antidepressants for over 30yrs, i felt very sick.
I tried leaving it but, I'm not just sad, i feel tense, nervous, I've got the worst insomnia and anxiety/panic attacks, but i realise at the age of 50 I'm looking like a 60yr old grandma.
That's my life, we've got a history of chromic depression from my dad's side. One of my brothers had a nervous breakdown, which got him hospitalized in a mental facility for some time.
I realise me and him appear older than our older brother due to our lives which is controlled by antidepressants.
A drug that takes away our emotions, sexual function and cause memory problems and difficulty focusing should be outright banned
Causing parkonism and PSSD… these drugs should be illegal.. and psychiatry is purposely abusing thesd side effects on vulnerable people..
I'm dying every day. I was on many drugs for my OCD and then they misdiagnosed me with bipolar put me on many other drugs my life is over. It's been six months. I am off my meds, but it's like nightmare๐ข Akhatisia,anhedonia, cognitive impairment, insomnia, DPDR, racing thoughts, and severe mood swingsุHyper sensitive nervous system I'm getting worse every day. I can't take it anymore ๐ข๐ข I really want to live, but I can't take it anymore. I am so close to suside everyday.
I have autism and adhd, I started taking lexapro 3 weeks ago. Iโm going to the emergency room today due to an ongoingn2 day nonstop panic issue. This really upsets me as mental health medicines that deal with depression NEED to work immediately, especially for those who donโt have much longer due to their mental health taking them over. Itโs unfortunate and upsets me.
Ive taken Citalopram and Zoloft for severe anxiety . It takes me months years of fighting it though untill i ask to go back on meds . No choice , im a mess and was gonna lose my job or have to take some time off . This was after , improving my diet , exercise , meditation etc It wasn't working . The start up on them is shocking but they do help . They certainly dont cure it , if you ve a bad mental health issue you 've a bad memtal health issue im afraid ๐ข Gonna have to find tools to try and live with it . But the meds help . I found Citalopram easier than Zoloft . Less side effects , Zoloft upset my stomach and gave me wide pupils and coming off them was worse than going on . But Citalopram aren't to bad . Dont just take the full recommended dose straight away . If they put you on 20 mg tablets then take 10 mg for a week , then up it . If youre in a bad way and just take 20 mg straight away you 'll really struggle . They take 3 months to improve and you will improve ๐ช
Antidepressants are a trap. I know what I'm writing about. Doctors thoughtlessly prescribe them as a panacea for all evil. You can't win against nature.
Yea lady, and the certificates on your wall are in appreciation from the drug companies, ๐
Is anyone have permanent blurred vision due to antidepressant
I went on them at 14 for some mild/moderate social anxiety and they made me so tired all I did was sleep all day and put on tons of weight and have no libido. So, the doctor kept changing the pills and adding more and more until I was a diabetic zombie on an huge cocktail of meds and had to go on disability.ย
Now, Iโm 55, no money, no friends, no family and an autoimmune condition (probably) from all the pills and being bedridden for decades.ย Iโm off the meds, but physically sick from the med damage and have chronic insomnia.
There went my life! ๐๐ปโโ I hope that happens to the psychiatrists who treated me and their kids and grandkids too, so maybe they can grow some empathy and learn to think outside the box and be more careful.
I have permanent neurological side effects from doctor not tapering my antidepressants
Last 6 years a m taking ssri or snri but it's increasing my fear and anxiety I dnt knw why now I stopped and I feel better
So the problem with medical professionals using words like "most" and "almost always" and "outweigh the risks" is that nobody takes what they say seriously, due to them condemning those same generalizations whenever it was regarding an idea that might loose them money rather than increase it. These psychopathic medical gangs collectively engage in 'munchausen by proxy', and the patients around the world have been the victims of this gaslighting parody of quasi-altruistic motives. Stop letting propaganda you hear from these professional sadists with your ears, convince you into ignoring what you clearly see with your eyes.
http://1000milesfromnowhere.blogspot.com/2024/04/brintellixvortioxetine-my-journey-to.html
Here I share my story. Turns out also had bleed on the brain, now chronic migraine …all since the pills. Before them barely had a headache in my life
I started taking paxil at 15 years old for social anxiety disorder at 20 mg . I didn't understand why I was getting prescribed an anti depressant when I was really not depressed, I was living in fear everyday, not depressed. I thought that might cause problems and later in life it really did. I went from 20 mg to the maximum dose, 60 mg, later in my life. I am 37 now and In the last year, i very slowly, which is really important if withrawing, went down from 60 mg to 20 mg and I will eventually stop it for good, which I thought I would never be able to do because everytime I tried to quit, it was just getting worse. I tried quitting for years but trying to quit cold turkey or too fast is 1 of the worst nightmares I went through. I also learned that eating and digesting food creates serotonin and a problem that I had for years was eating before I was going to bed, also with only having moved around very little all day, which logicaly made me understand that I wouldn't digest a lot at night, then I wouldn't be hungry during the day so I wouldn't eat during the day, so I wouldn't secrete serotonin during the day, so I would have no energy, I didn't even have the energy to take my shower. Not spending energy during the day made me sleepless at night and eating before going to bed made the cycle keep going. Leave yourself 3 to 4 hours to digest before going to bed is best and whether it's best for you to take your meds earlier or later during the day, the most important is to take them at the same time everyday to avoid an imbalance which is 1 if not the main reason to take ssri's. Taking paxil really helped me, even saved my life. It blocked a lot of my fears but also took away a lot of my emotions which I figured out, had everything to do with my motivation. To me, taking paxil was lifes way of helping me confront my fears and stop me from ruining my life and others with my irresponsible behaviors. I hope with all my heart that my experiences will help you and others. Thank you so much for taking the time to have read my book of a comment lol
The benefits vs risks people never actually care about the risks; itโs just a gimmick; they ignore risk and just prescribe
Why are these psychiatrists so proud of the fact that they have an arrow in the dark approach with treatment of their patients, "try two or three and see what works" are you frickin' serious lady? Tell that to anyone with any other illness and they will be at your necks. The patient will ask why is that? Do you not know what these drugs do or how they work? Do you not know enough about the illness and the drug that you have to try different kinds before anyone might work? Why even are these drugs out in the market then? Or is it just a way to sell more pills?
There is a small percentage(2%) of people where anti depressants are bad/toxic. Careful prescribing with gradual dosing helps. But for 75% of people they are significantly helpful although there can be a short period of negative side effects before the benefits which might be 2 or 3 weeks.
Those treatments are only poison
this black and white view of antidepressants is what makes me annoyed as someone with severe depression and a positive experience with ssris
to me psychological problems should be, at first, approached with things like CBT but that won't always work and it especially won't work on people so hopeless that they consider taking their lives
so yes, ssris are heavy drugs and yes it won't be helpful for a lot of people but that doesn't mean everyone experiences the world the same as you do. i'm thankful for my medication and i couldn't be typing this comment if it wasnt for them
Antidepressants are life saving. I am using escitalopram ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฟ
Antidepressants are horrible drugs and doctors hand them out like candy. If you try and get a Benzo it's nearly impossible.
They made me have seizures in my sleep. One half of my body would sometimes go cometely numb. The brain zaps and dizziness were terrible and if you forgot them or were trying to stop them symptoms were 50fold I was sick of feeling ill and didnt want to choose between mental health and physical health. Saying that Darren here with his movements….it defo looks psychosomatic Ive watched shellshock they were doing that kind of thing.
The medications ruined my life
The drugs dont work and cause permanent brain damage. The animal studies have proven it.
my experience so far, Xanax worked great until it doesn't and causes anxiety and memory problems, Zoloft suicidal thoughts, lexapro haucination and hearing things felt like I as on lsd. im about to just say forget it just deal with life. anxitey and all the side effects are not worth it to me. also I think it benfital if a person plans on staying on it forever, because all antidepressant have bad withdrawal so bad that some can't get off of it. so if you plan to always be on meds the rest of your life with no intention of stopping ,then I think it will be great. but if your only using it for short term may want to look into other methods like therapy and natural supplement to help calm nerves, won't be as effective as medication but it can help little taking small amount of edge off while you regain control of your life through proven methods to control mental health, bi polar and more serious conditions however I feel do need to be on meds the rest of their lives that is something different.
In my case it causes memory loss
Depression isn't real. Dont take anti depressants its will make you suicidal thinking
Doctor said you may need to try 2, maybe 3 antidepressants before finding one that works. Really??? Some people need to try a lot more than that! Real life experiences are often ignored, with doctors spouting what pharma companies prefer to hear ๐
Prozac really help me, but then it start causing me huge problems..sezirues, suicadal..terible side effect, i had to stop taking them over night, from high dose..i take l-trypthofan now
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Side effects of antidepressants are too sick ๐ข๐ข๐ข
I am so happy that I saw this. I was extremely depressed started taking Zoloft and after three weeks, I started having full body muscle tremors, and muscle spasms that were debilitating and terrifying. The doctors told me I was crazy. They didnโt know what was causing it when the symptoms went away then when I got depressed I tried taking Zoloft three months later and the tremors came back and painful muscle spasms, it permanently damaged my neurological system and almost a year and a half later. Iโm still suffering from taking Zoloft for three weeks.
I need these to save my life but because of this video I canโt take them my hypochondria says no ๐
I only felt alive when i was in europe, speaking my native language, seeing people's lives go on and not fearing for what happens tomorrow
But my insane abusive mom drove me away to a 3rd world country while blaming me for feeling down and treating me like a suitcase instead of a human being. It's crystal clear that lack of communication and a safe environment is the core problem, but she forced me to get a diagnosis (mild depression) and take ssri's (she reassured herself that i'm wrong as a person and need to be fixed inorder for my problems to go away; she's convinced that my negative feelings are disrespectful towards her ego and does anything to protect it) so the medication made me want to kms all of a sudden and i feel like that's being overlooked.
I hardly convince myself that she's being abusive due to her manipulation even though deep down, i know it, but im tired of being tired and hearing her discard all my thought patterns, objectivity and morals.
Im just tired of being demonized for wanting to survive, thrive, stay alive and all
Antidepressants saved my life! Everytime I get off, life just feels impossible to deal with, grey and empty.
I've tried to leave them, but life without them is not appealing to live.
I was taking antidepressants and although they made me much more chilled & stopped me over thinking everything, they ruined my libido & had to switch away from SSRIS. This is barely mentioned as a side effect but can ruin your marriage etc & how you see yourself.
When I was on prozac I was โconvinced I was possessed by the devilโ. All day I was laying on the ground, screaming and spitting. And I also had those seizure-like symptoms. The worst part is that my doctor gaslighted me for 6 years, saying it wasnโt from the medication.
Iโve tried several meds now and most of them just make me feel worse. Yesterday and today I tried 1 & a half doses of Venlafaxine, and I noticed that Iโm all of a sudden super anxious in the bathtub (I had just gotten over my bath time anxiety too. I had it for various reasons). Then I read about all the withdrawal symptoms and the side effects many people have had โ itโs just. Not. Worth it. Not for me, anyway. And yes, I know that you have to take it for longer to experience any positive effects, or that you have to try more than a few, but Iโm just not willing to tough it out. Whatโs even the point in all of it? I respect the fact that meds have genuinely helped a lot of people. Thatโs great. Iโm just not one of those people.
The only pill that somewhat worked for me and gave me no side effects other than hand tremors, was Sertraline. Iโd go back on that if it werenโt for a few other reasons I wonโt get into. I hate that I let my therapist talk me back into this crap. I know whatโs best for my body and Iโm sticking to it. I have pretty severe anxiety when I go to doctor appointments, and I had a pretty terrible one just the other day. But the relief I feel afterwards is the reward, because itโs over. Itโs my bodyโs natural way of calming itself down. Plus a lot of other relaxation techniques can take the edge off. Iโd much rather be sober and drug-free and ride the wave of fear and get my precious reward than to get hooked on something that has the potential to make everything worse and make little to no positive changes.
I dont need anything for depression. Its anxiety that i have. And it's not just a little bit of anxiety like some people have. It's debilitating. I need days to recover from being in a public space. I went to a restaurant today and felt overwhelmed and too anxious to even speak and started crying in front of everyone. Had to move to the corner of the room. Its exhausting. Years of severe stress and anxiety has now made my head feel like its burning. Ive got prozac but didn't take it long enough bc it didn't give an instant fix of relaxation like i wanted. Frustrating that i cant find anything for the anxiety
Twice in my life I've been offered antidepressants… in both instances I was NOT depressed, my symptoms were caused by physical ailments (Candida overgrowth in one case, a sinus infection in the other). I tried to tell these doctors, I'm not depressed, I feel fine apart from these symptoms (the sinus infection made me continually feel as if I was smelling excrement, which admittedly was a little upsetting but I wasn't DEPRESSED about it) but was told that Sertraline or Prozac would help with my "psychological issues". Bullshit, and I am so glad I avoided taking either. Change of diet cured the Candida, short course of antibiotics cured the sinusitis. GET A SECOND OPINION, folks!
For a temporary life crisis or depression, please donโt be tricked by the doctors who just wanted to sell the medicine and donโt care about your life . Your life will be just ruined by this medicine. My friendโs life was ruined and eventually she died very young !
Venaflaxine. If i miss a dose… the next day i experience a "falling away" sensation in my head. Strange. And if i wznt to stop i will have to use other s.s.r.u.i's to ween off. Go big pharma!
Sertraline gave me a GI bleed . Other antidepressants had awful side affects. Would never ever take them again. I have to learn to live with my depression