Goddamn I am sick of this bullshit!

[TZ]

Have you noticed when a shooter goes on a rampage (like the VT tech shooter) and they find out he was on a med (anti-depressant) It must be the medications fault!! But if the shooter has gone off the meds (like the guy at NIU) than its also the meds fault!!
YAAAAGH! As I said over in GD..ITS THE MENTAL ILLNESS THAT MAKES PEOPLE FLIP OUT NOT THE GODDAMED MEDICATIONS!!!
Sorry. Rant off.:rant: :nuke:

[Dr. Strange]

1. No shit!

Oh look, when Mrs. Dinglebatty disconnected her oxygen tube, she suffocated and died. Must have been something wrong with the oxygen.

WRONG!

[TZ]

2. Excellent ....

I will remember that the next time I am confronted with this nonsense!:thumbsup:

[Warpy]

3. The point is that he WENT OFF THEM suddenly

and it's unclear whether or not he was ever warned what that was going to do to his head.

If he'd kept taking his drugs, he'd be through grad school, wearing a nice suit, and making a whole office full of underlings unhappy.

The meds didn't do it. Going off them suddenly certainly might have.

Even I got wacky if I missed an SSRI dose when I was on the miserable things. I have never been so glad to be able to taper anything off as I was those suckers. Plus, they did NOTHING for my fibro.

[Dr. Strange]

4. I wonder if he figured he was doing well, so maybe he didn't need them?

A lot of people seem to think that when they're feeling well, that they no longer need their medicines--not realizing that they're feeling well precisely because they are taking their medicine.

[lizerdbits]

5. Sounds like my aunt

Luckily she's never harmed herself or anyone else, she just calls my dad and complains every day about how shitty her life is. She takes antidepressants, feels better, decides she doesn't need them, gets depressed, then the same drug doesn't work. Lather, rinse, repeat for 20 years. :(

[lizerdbits]

6. Did you get brain zaps when tapering?

I was on paxil for a month because my doc thought my sleep problems were from prolonged PMS (only feel good during that time of the month which is about 3-4X a year when you have PCOS) but it didn't help. It actually made everything worse. I was a nauseous zombie but also really fidgety and having near panic attacks. I was on 10mg a day which is the lowest single pill and stopped on Friday so given the low dose maybe that's why it's not too bad so far. I actually felt really good today other than the brain zaps.

[Warpy]

7. Oh, yeah, weirdest feeling in the world

having that going on inside your head, a physical feeling and a sound at the same time. If I didn't make up the dose soon enough, I'd bottom out my blood pressure. Paxil was horrible stuff and it didn't work.

I hated that stuff. I successfully transferred to Effexor and started weaning myself slowly, a quarter of a tablet at a time. Took me six months to get off all that crap and I wasn't emotionally stable for another six months (although my mother died as I was starting to wean and that probably had something to do with it).