Posted by morgan miller on October 15, 2010, at 19:17:41
In reply to Re: Thinking of coming off meds » floatingbridge, posted by Maxime on October 15, 2010, at 18:54:23
Chronic depression and it's detrimental accumulative effects could be causing you to feel "stupid" as much as medications could be. I don't hear much people complaining about cognitive side effects with drugs like Parnate, this doesn't mean it is not affecting your cognition.
Not all anti-depressants will negatively affect your metabolism and cognition. Some may improve your cognition, especially if your depression significantly improves on them.
It's sounding like you are on a path to not taking any medications. If so, this might be a bad idea. You may not be close to where you want to be, but you sound better than you were several months ago.
What is keeping you from going to individual or group therapy or both? At some point, we simply need to face our demons, or we may never have a chance at a good life.
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