why do people take antidepressants? are they nuts?!?

[xxangelchick39xx]

why do they want to be numb and just give up like that? i've been on antidepressants and anti psychotics and let me tell you that stuff makes you feel so foggy and nervous and it just made me so out there for many many years and if i didn't take it my mom would shove it down my throat even when it was hurting me but there was nothing i could do. i didn't even respond right i acted so weird like i'd go to people at lunch in school and talk about masturbation saying it's ok to do it my mom says it's ok or some weird stuff like that. stuff i would never do now.. although i'm over it.. it's really affected my life i can't seem to get my bad childhood behind me knowing half of my adolescence i was numb i can't take it. the way i acted around people ughh!! it haunts me everyday. especially now i have some problems in social things, not as bad but i'm more depressed with it now. i was never like this before drugs. ughh! i don't understand why people want to be like this!

[Amy W]

It sounds like you did not have the right medication for your situation. Many people who are on anti-depressants do not feel numb, but find that the medication just takes away constant depression that they have no reason to feel.

[Bronwyn E]

I've been on 'em and I always felt that it was for others that I took them, not me. In some cases anti-ds simply make life easier for those around you not you.

[akilahluvs]

You sound like you have unresolved issues that have nothing to do with the drugs. The drugs don't erase pain...or numb you.. unless they can remove memories..they allow you to cope and face. I think someone gave you the drugs and not the chance to talk and evolve. Therefore with or without the drugs...you'll have issues.....

Also, talking about others that take the drugs and assuming everyone is like yourself is unfair. Everyone's body chemistry is different, the drugs aren't for everyone and for some they are very effective. Why make all those people feel bad who rely on those drugs for your issues?

You can't analyze anything angry or mad. You need to find your outlet. I recommend therapy...I'm not trying to be harsh but you have to face and talk about what ails you. Find someone who you want to work with...and get better...nobody is going to do it for you, especially as an adult.

[rawrcutierawr]

it actually helps some people. for people who are suicidal it makes them forget about all those things that make them that way.

[Alex C]

Maybe they wont to be even more dumb.

[franslaimbock]

your cells remember the vast intoxication you were on.
They said when you were forced to take the drugs:
Are you trying to kill us?
This is traumatic, please look up
www.emofree.com Gary Craig is doing a great job for all of us. Or just google 'tapping' with the 'images' section.
I can recommend a craniosacral or polarity therapist as they know the best way to reïnstall your lifeforce.
Emotionally you were thrown from shame to helplessness
As you chose this path you must have been given exceptional qualities at birth to overcome all this.
So not to worry, you can work this out and it is overseable as you inventised quite precisely what went wrong.
Although you stored the stress in your body because of the psychosomatic connection.
If you are depressed
get a daily routine in nature
eat sprouts/nuts/grains/fruits/veggies
leave the other stuff behind

good luck my friend