Your experiences with psychiatric medications?

[equanimity]

Has anyone other than kroz experienced alopecia (hair loss) when taking psych meds?  That is not something I could handle lol.

[kroz]

yeah.. im sure a lot people do. Especially with abilify , Depakote, lithium, and Seroquel. this was when I was fifteen/16. but most of the hair I lossed was around my pubic region but definitely on my head... but not in patches like alopecia.. just generally all over, I would wake up with my pillow full of hair. and I'd be asleep drooling on my desk at school. I'm 27 now and I just don't fuck with that stuff anymore, I rather be crazy than be some estrogen pumped wimp

these drugs would also make my lip quiver uncontrollably and my hands would shake. I used to work as a nursing assistant at the state hospital here. and the people that have been on these drugs for years are fucked up. In my opinion no one needs to be on this stuff unless you're seeing the ghost of dead cops.. ect..

I'd rather smoke weed, drink, and take an occasional benzo. bipolar/schizophrenia is thought by some to be more of a illness of your spirit. You sound like an intelligent person. just try to work through your problems

[starvingniglet]

yeah.. im sure a lot people do. Especially with abilify , Depakote, lithium, and Seroquel. this was when I was fifteen/16. but most of the hair I lossed was around my pubic region but definitely on my head... but not in patches like alopecia.. just generally all over, I would wake up with my pillow full of hair. and I'd be asleep drooling on my desk at school. I'm 27 now and I just don't fuck with that stuff anymore, I rather be crazy than be some estrogen pumped wimp

 

[kroz]

being a little neurotic and taking these meds is kinda like having mild back pain and thinking you need oxycodone. the people that need oxycodone are usually missing a limb.. My gf "cranberries"  takes (escitalopram, and she is still complains of being sad wether she's on it or not.   I took it a few times and while it did numb me up a bit mentally it caused so many other side effects and just generally made me feel strange. Sure.. you get used to it.. but would you really want to get used to something like that?

antipsychotics make you fat and stupid... hell even my doctor when I was younger told me that. it's just bad stuff. there are other things in your life that should make you feel sane. atleast for a little bit\

big pharmacy is not the answer!

[Vulture]

so you actually get decaying skin and start getting an urge to feed on brains?

Yes. It takes about 2 years for the long term side effects to kick in, but eventually you find yourself gnawing on your own appendages in your sleep and dreams, and then you never wake up, only getting flashes of reality when you've successfully scarfed down a brain.

[Prometheus]

I had a lot of luck on a mix of Lithium, Celexa, and... for the life of me, I can't recall the name of the third one. Ah well, that one didn't help much anyway.

[equanimity]

yeah.. im sure a lot people do. Especially with abilify , Depakote, lithium, and Seroquel. this was when I was fifteen/16. but most of the hair I lossed was around my pubic region but definitely on my head... but not in patches like alopecia.. just generally all over, I would wake up with my pillow full of hair. and I'd be asleep drooling on my desk at school. I'm 27 now and I just don't fuck with that stuff anymore, I rather be crazy than be some estrogen pumped wimp

these drugs would also make my lip quiver uncontrollably and my hands would shake. I used to work as a nursing assistant at the state hospital here. and the people that have been on these drugs for years are fucked up. In my opinion no one needs to be on this stuff unless you're seeing the ghost of dead cops.. ect..

I'd rather smoke weed, drink, and take an occasional benzo. bipolar/schizophrenia is thought by some to be more of a illness of your spirit. You sound like an intelligent person. just try to work through your problems

Yeah, I work as a CNA myself.  Know what you mean about the heavily medication people generally being worse off :/

But I'm kind of at my wit's end here.  Getting pretty desperate, honestly.  Intense suicidal thoughts, past like week I've spent in bed spamming this place.  That feeling of being unable to get out of bed is the worst...

[constantinople]

I been on prescribed amphetamines for most of my life. Since 2nd grade. 

[STD]

Fluvoxamine (Luvox) and Duloxetine (Cymbalta) are the better two mood SSRI/SNRI in my experience, sertraline (Zoloft) works pretty quickly especially at slowing you at getting off. All were well tolerated.

Chlorpromazine 50mg at night or so for a couple of months (Thorazine 50mg) helped get to sleep at night and maybe felped me focus during the day. I have enough enough extra tablets to knock out several suburbs of my street :/

[aldra]

has anyone been on SSREs? I've heard things like tianeptine can be a lot more effective and faster-acting, but aren't readily prescribed in most countries.

[47 47 47]

sertraline (zoloft) is shitty, stay away from it! It turned me into a shell of a person, and honestly I dont really remember much about that part of my life any more.

[RustyShackleford]

I used to take escitalopran. Shit sucked, like someone else said I don't remember much from that time in my life. I worked a shitty job, smoked a lot of whatever I could get, and generally became a shitty person. The worst was that it made me entirely lose my sex drive and could barely get myself to cum even when I wanted to. It might be kind of lulzy to think about, but there is nothing fun about going to town and feeling like you might as well be rubbing your arm or some shit.

I'll reiterate; don't do it. It didn't do me one bit of good and was largely counterproductive. I'm just glad I didn't get arrested or die.

I should say I'm 100x more of a loser than I was now that I am off them, but I am at least a lot more balanced.

[equanimity]

You're more of a loser now?  How so?

[RustyShackleford]

You're more of a lower now?  How so?

I don't do drugs, except a few drink with my parents. I don't go out anymore. All I do is sit on the computer alternating between posting shit on forums and trying to learn enough html/php/javascript/ruby to work for myself because the thought of working for a corporation makes me want to die. If I'm not at school or work I don't leave the house. I wasn't always like this, I used to go and mountain bike and shit or go to the local bar. When I started smoking weed and cigs I kept it up and would just go to the woods or river and smoke. It was peaceful. Now I am a prisoner to myself. I have spent the entire weekend indoors, same with last weekend, and the weekend before... (well not too far back, I used to work sat nights). I can't smoke weed cause it nearly got me kicked out of the house before.

On the positive side I am content and I am in control. I have no illusions.

When I was on psychs I was basically the same I just smoked a lot of weed, leading to my almost getting kicked out. Its funny cause now that I've quit I'm even more apathetic (besides my frantically trying to learn useful web dev). It's pathetic, I honestly just want to sustain a meager existence of getting high and doing web dev or marketing, but idk if I have it in me. Time just passes. I'm not trying to be all "woe is me", but time will pass and experiences will be had with or without antidepressants. It doesn't matter what you do because there is no end.

[Umbrella Corp]

You're more of a lower now?  How so?

Time just passes. I'm not trying to be all "woe is me", but time will pass and experiences will be had with or without antidepressants. It doesn't matter what you do because there is no end.

I agree that with the amount of time on anti depressants, the noted benefit may just be ann improvemtent in life that was going to happen whether or whether you didn't do drugs.

In my case tho, I had been going through shit so long I was ready to try anything and everything because I had tried just "waiting it out" and it wasn't working for me.