Posted by Conundrum on June 16, 2010, at 21:48:30
In reply to Rejection of Meds Gives me Hope, posted by Huxley on June 15, 2010, at 22:27:04
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> "The SSRI path to a disabling mental illness can be easily seen. A depressed patient treated with an anti-depressant suffers a manic or psychotic episode, at which time his or her diagnosis is changed to bipolar disorder. At that point, the person is prescribed an anti-psychotic to go along with the anti-depressant, and, once on a drug cocktail, the person is well along on the road to permanent disability"
This sounds like what happened to me. Since I had a rebound of odd spirituality after discontinuing SSRIs for a couple years my pdoc now thinks I have mood stablity (BP) issues. The fact is those strange feelings were only felt one time in my life, after discontinuing prozac. I only felt persistantly happy one time in my life, while on prozac. Why is my biology getting blamed for something anyone with half a brain can see is the action of a drug and the rebound after drug discontinuation?If I got high on MDMA or heroin, no one would say "You're bipolar" they would say I was high. Why is it that antidepressant drugs can't make some people feel better all the time? Thats their job. Sometimes they work a little better in some ppl. I think the antipsychotic thing might have gotten a little out of control. I would only take an AP if I though it would help MY SYMPTOMS. I would only take a dose for MY SYMPTOMS, which would be below the doses needed for psychosis or BP disorder.
Now this all sounds very antimed. And I like you huxley believe if I had never taken ADs i would have recovered on my own, but it wasn't really up to me. I don't mean to keep mentioning the past, this is just for people who don't know my story. Many would probably say "well then why are you here?"
Because I have to fight fire with fire. After 7 years of persistant problems after prozac discontinuation I need to take a psych drug or drugs to counteract what prozac has done in my brain. I'm not even sure this will work, but I feel I don't have many other options. I haven't found most plant products helpful. The same goes for many synthetic supplements I've tried. I now have to find a drug that can help me to reverse the changes made previously made in my brain and god knows if thats possible. Thats like that guy from Quantum Leap to get back to his own time and world. I have some ideas of things that might help but I don't know if I'll ever get back to 100% the way i was before OR while on prozac. yes while on teh drug I was fine, more than fine. Something happened stopping it. My brain adapted to fit the drug and now seems to be lost or not interested in helping my anhedonia and symptoms, since I guess they're not critical to my survival or at least my brain doesn't seem to think so.
End Rant.
Post-SSRI syndrome: iatrogenic anhedonia, memory and concentration problems, sexual dysfunction. [NOTE no sadness or anxiety]
Location:USA
Currently taking 250mg Lamictal, 2.5 mg prozac.
poster:Conundrum
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