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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 587090" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>I won't go on psychiatric medications ever again. I'd rather use my brain to work through whatever's hammering me. And yes, I was one of those that was told "You need to take these forever."</p><p></p><p>I tried Prozac. Standard dose made me hilariously manic, so I switched to half dose. Stopped when I felt I had worked my way over the anxiety hump. Weird side effect - I lost all cravings for chocolate.</p><p></p><p>Severe depressive episode, Zoloft. This was about 10 years later, maybe. I was seriously non-functional, I needed something to make me Not Care until I could get a handle on my life and Kiddo's autism and Spouse's own depressive porn-addictive behaviors along with the stress he was dealing with at work. </p><p></p><p>(Note: I think the porn habit was him just going nuts as a collector personality, not anything dangerous in and of itself. It frankly could have been comic books (and for a long time it was) or collectible plates or railroad spikes or anything - he just picked something free he could download that was enough of a distraction that he could refrain from thinking about work and the company buy-out by German Competitor Company.)</p><p></p><p>Well, Zoloft worked all right. I didn't give a s*** about much of anything. I took a standard dose, lost all my empathic skills but maintained socially acceptible behavior out of habit, started paying bills late, was told again and again through therapy by the pshrink who kept the scrip up that I'd Need These Forever, tried hard to work with the ptherapist to keep myself functioning and stable, then started taking Ritalin too out of a desire to stay focused (part of the Zoloft was that I didn't care, thus didn't care about staying on task, whatever, I'll get it.)</p><p></p><p>Ritalin - well, I reflected on that in a previous post. Like legal coke, I loved the stuff, it shut off the inner narrator completely and I was getting stuff done just this side of manic and sleeping better than I'd ever slept in my life. I was supposed to take 4 a day but I'd "bank" my pills and use it harder on weekends or whenever I felt like it. </p><p></p><p>I was able to cut the Ritalin cold turkey, but I had to taper off the Zoloft against medical advice. (Because DEX lost his job and we were running out of insurance coverage.) I did that in steps, I had a routine going.</p><p></p><p>1. Stop taking Zoloft.</p><p>2. When the withdrawal fog starts, resume 1/2 dose.</p><p>3. When fog lifts, stop pills again.</p><p>4. When fog returns, resume at 1/2 of the above.</p><p></p><p>I kept doing this for about a month, until I was out of pills.</p><p></p><p>Then a week after my last 1/8th dose, some jerks knocked down the World Trade Center towers. I was watching this on TV, and in the midst of the horror I started that kind of hysterical laughter you can't fake. DEX looked at me, and I said in my best Lloyd Bridges voice ("Airplane!")...</p><p></p><p>"I sure picked the wrong week to give up antidepressants."</p><p></p><p>So no. I'd rather have the occasional s***thank you days than have to feel that ever again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 587090, member: 15907"] I won't go on psychiatric medications ever again. I'd rather use my brain to work through whatever's hammering me. And yes, I was one of those that was told "You need to take these forever." I tried Prozac. Standard dose made me hilariously manic, so I switched to half dose. Stopped when I felt I had worked my way over the anxiety hump. Weird side effect - I lost all cravings for chocolate. Severe depressive episode, Zoloft. This was about 10 years later, maybe. I was seriously non-functional, I needed something to make me Not Care until I could get a handle on my life and Kiddo's autism and Spouse's own depressive porn-addictive behaviors along with the stress he was dealing with at work. (Note: I think the porn habit was him just going nuts as a collector personality, not anything dangerous in and of itself. It frankly could have been comic books (and for a long time it was) or collectible plates or railroad spikes or anything - he just picked something free he could download that was enough of a distraction that he could refrain from thinking about work and the company buy-out by German Competitor Company.) Well, Zoloft worked all right. I didn't give a s*** about much of anything. I took a standard dose, lost all my empathic skills but maintained socially acceptible behavior out of habit, started paying bills late, was told again and again through therapy by the pshrink who kept the scrip up that I'd Need These Forever, tried hard to work with the ptherapist to keep myself functioning and stable, then started taking Ritalin too out of a desire to stay focused (part of the Zoloft was that I didn't care, thus didn't care about staying on task, whatever, I'll get it.) Ritalin - well, I reflected on that in a previous post. Like legal coke, I loved the stuff, it shut off the inner narrator completely and I was getting stuff done just this side of manic and sleeping better than I'd ever slept in my life. I was supposed to take 4 a day but I'd "bank" my pills and use it harder on weekends or whenever I felt like it. I was able to cut the Ritalin cold turkey, but I had to taper off the Zoloft against medical advice. (Because DEX lost his job and we were running out of insurance coverage.) I did that in steps, I had a routine going. 1. Stop taking Zoloft. 2. When the withdrawal fog starts, resume 1/2 dose. 3. When fog lifts, stop pills again. 4. When fog returns, resume at 1/2 of the above. I kept doing this for about a month, until I was out of pills. Then a week after my last 1/8th dose, some jerks knocked down the World Trade Center towers. I was watching this on TV, and in the midst of the horror I started that kind of hysterical laughter you can't fake. DEX looked at me, and I said in my best Lloyd Bridges voice ("Airplane!")... "I sure picked the wrong week to give up antidepressants." So no. I'd rather have the occasional s***thank you days than have to feel that ever again. [/QUOTE]
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