Posted by morgan miller on July 25, 2010, at 19:18:37
In reply to Re: toxic crap, posted by morgan miller on July 25, 2010, at 18:50:29
BTW, not everyone experiences an impairment in the ability to think in certain ways. I experienced just as much an ability or more to think deeply, critically, abstractly, and analytically while medicated on both Prozac and Zoloft in the past. I simply felt "normal", whatever that means. And I functioned at a very high level. Believe it or not, and you will NOT be able to see this or come to this conclusion on Psycho-Babble, there are many many people functioning at a very high level and thinking very clearly on antidepressant medications.
For me, the chronic depression and anxiety and horrific mixed episodes(which have all occurred while not taking medications) have done the real damage. Though I will admit, with this past 2 years of medication trials, I do feel somewhat compromised. Like Scott said, medication trials, especially when the wrong medications are prescribed, can do some damage and change the way you respond to future treatments. All of this could have been avoided by me if I had just accepted that I was probably better off on Zoloft and continuing to do things the way I was doing them, instead of feeling like something was wrong with taking a foreign substance that may be toxic to my body which was not made to be exposed to it. That was part of my reasoning for getting off Zoloft. Bad bad reasoning. I didn't realize how well I was doing and that I really did not experience any negative side effects. I took a few months of giving Zoloft a shot at the right dose but I eventually was side effect free and stayed that way for years.
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