Medication kept me alive!

Hello, I am new here. But, not new to depression, have been living with it over 20 years. I am in my early 50's and a female, I have tried several antidepressants and every single one helped me but Prozac worked best; I have been on it for 18 years, 50 mg/day - I would have been dead without it!

I am not completely symptom-free, I believe this is how I will feel for the rest of my life at best, have never regained the feeling of happiness; It is very hard to go through day like this, and if a doctor would assist me to end my life I would be most grateful but I can not find one. This is my new symptom, the one I didn't have before: I always had a hope that I might get well but as the years gone by and have lost my family I have lost my hope and my reason to struggle.

I am here to let you know that I have been at least 10 weeks on any medication I have tried, I hope you give enough time for yours to start working. I know each one has terrible side effects but they all settle some what, except the weight gain if you do not count your calories.

And yes, medication can help. It can. It is just that the patient needs to be able to have more of a say in what happens with our bodies-what works and what doesn't.

I think that sometimes AP folks forget that meds can help but I do think that it is important to be very careful with doctors and careful in what we allow to have happen to us.

Anyway, I am glad that the meds helped you and I wish you luck in all of your endeavors.

Catherine
Member of Icarus Project

Cate68 wrote:And yes, medication can help. It can. It is just that the patient needs to be able to have more of a say in what happens with our bodies-what works and what doesn't.

I think that sometimes AP folks forget that meds can help but I do think that it is important to be very careful with doctors and careful in what we allow to have happen to us.

Anyway, I am glad that the meds helped you and I wish you luck in all of your endeavors.

Catherine
Member of Icarus Project

Fully agree. I myself have always been reluctant to take any of the two extreme positions, the pro-and the anti-meds one. Any time I hear the extreme view either saying "meds are the only answer" or "no meds under no circumstances for anybody", I stay away from both, as each one of them seems too narrow and primitive to include the bigger complex reality out there that contains enormous variety of human experiences, harmful, helpful and also mixed.

I noticed the Icarus Project a while ago and also noticed that you are not as active as other MH activists, which I actually see as a good thing. I wanted to start my own MH project at some point but then lost motivation because I couldn't find like-minded and, most importantly, motivated people to do it with. If interested to learn more about it, feel free to PM me.

I might be way out of line in saying that some of these posts seem to be made up by mental health professionals, just saying.....

So you are a one post user who is obvioualy paid by the phramaceutical companies to post that.

My question if you are actually real is have you ever tried staying off drugs, exercising daily, and eating a healthy diet (no flouride, MSG, only organic, no aspartame, etc)? It seems like you just decided to give up and turn to drugs instead of actually curing your depression.

AutisticPsychopath wrote:So you are a one post user who is obvioualy paid by the phramaceutical companies to post that.

where do I sign up, I need a bit of extra cash, and I just love snake oil!