Posted by edward602 on June 22, 2002, at 10:46:57
In reply to I'm going off all of my meds!!!, posted by Wilkie on June 20, 2002, at 15:07:36
I felt the same as you; that my meds were making me sicker than the depression made me. I also thought after ten years on ssri's I was well enough to forgo drugs. I went off my meds -- 40 mg. celexa, 50 mg. wellbutrin, 15 mg. adderall -- in August and in September I was psychotically depressed. I had psychomotor retardation and could not read or watch TV.
Hey, we are all different. But my drugs gave me such a devil-may-care attitude that I tought I could weather life without them. I hated the side effects and emotional blunting but I was working and travelling and having sex and eating well -- now I do not work, don't have any interest in sex, don't leave the city....
Take this not as advice but as a "case study." I have friends who have quit their meds and been fine but they are usually people with acute depression, from life stressors, than chronic depression, as is my case.
Do it slow, very slow.
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