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Happy pills.

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wait.what
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So today my psychiatrist put me on dem happy pills... the anti d's.

What should I expect?
What can I / cannot do? (Besides alcs)
Sep 7 2011 8:02PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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well don't drink. unless thats what alcs means.
Sep 7 2011 8:06PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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oops i didn't mean to post yet. what they give you? SSRI?
Sep 7 2011 8:07PM
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TheStamos
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I drank a glass of wine the first day and it fucked me up for 10 minutes or so . Kinda fun. You will notice a difference in a few weeks :) what are you takin?
Sep 7 2011 8:08PM
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1337
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what'd they give you? Probably an SSRI i'm guessing. TBH, they don't do much noticeable difference.
Sep 7 2011 8:09PM
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wait.what
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I m on Prosack.
Prozac*
Sep 7 2011 8:12PM
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wait.what
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nobody knows?
Sep 7 2011 9:04PM
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JIBpsy^^
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I think i get it?
Sep 7 2011 9:07PM
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AWALLRUS.
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MAYBE IF YOU MIX IT WITH DEPRESSANTS YOU'LL BE NORMAL
Sep 7 2011 9:12PM
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16bit
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take ecstasy if you are trying to feel happy...
Sep 7 2011 9:13PM
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CAPITA-DEVOURS
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ive taken it, and i didnt really notice anything..
Sep 7 2011 9:18PM
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wait.what
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Hmmm apparently itll take a month an a bitto kick in
Sep 7 2011 9:30PM
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Thick.Black.Gurl
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Word!
Sep 7 2011 9:34PM
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wait.what
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If alcohol and weed will fuck me up I'd hate to try something that actually manipulates my brain :S
Sep 8 2011 1:10AM
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Travapple.
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LSD
Sep 8 2011 1:21AM
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bakedpow
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Just smoke weed instead, probably will produce just about the same effects...
Sep 8 2011 1:23AM
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emilyiscool
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X and depression is probably the worst idea ever (and im not being a huge anti drug - dont do drugs person, i do x and m like every other week and fucking love it)

if your clinically depressed you have issues with serotonin as is and X and molly drain the fuck out of your serotonin meaning when you come down youll be even more depressed when your done

not a scientist probably not all completly right but you get the idea
Sep 8 2011 1:24AM
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amo
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Sep 8 2011 1:26AM
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AOTEAROA
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dont expect much. They may help stabalise you but its really about asorting your life situation. If what youre doing aint working, try something else. Ive been on anti depressants for 6 years, yuck.
Sep 8 2011 1:26AM
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wait.what
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Smoking weed has apparently worsened my anxiety.. The weed I got prescribed for my stomach stuff made my mental state worse, FML!
Sep 8 2011 1:33AM
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Jamie_Baril
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Do you have crohn's desise? If so i feel you dawg, i have been up and down and all around with my mental state because of the damn thing.
Sep 8 2011 5:02AM
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TechnoPotamus
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Sep 8 2011 9:25AM
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rockyhockey11187
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SSRI's affect the nuerotransmitters which are released in large doses when you take LSD, if you take SSRI's on a daily basis, the effects of LSD will be greatly diminished. you need to stop taking ssri's about 2 weeks before you drop doses if you want to feel psychedelic effects.....yeah undergrad psycho-pharmacology course! still remember that shit 3 years later
Sep 8 2011 9:29AM
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tommyp1ckles
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yea im not one of those people who thinks all pharmaceuticals are bad but i never got why we still haven't invented something better than ssri's for depression and such, anyone ive talked to who took them never says anything good about it.
Sep 8 2011 9:37AM
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inactive
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seroquel ftw
Sep 8 2011 9:53AM
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EC-Skier
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came in here hoping this thread would be about the store "Happy Pills" in Spain
Sep 8 2011 9:55AM
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maximiliaan
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Sep 8 2011 10:00AM
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neutralzombie
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they're only supposed to bring you above depressed, they don't make you happy, or solve your problems. they take a while to set in, and when you go off you'll have to ween them to avoid a relapse. remember, mood stabilizer. if you don't progress with adjusting your approach to dealing with emotions and situations, then my guess is you'll end up numb. i haven't taken them myself, but did talk about going on them with a psych for a long time. i know people who took them, and tried to commit suicide, and i know people who took them, and it made them a million times better,but like i said, it depends how you approach your illness and solving it. it always depends on your type of depression. general depression can be caused easily by simply being in a negative environment, so you feel negative, you act negative, your chemicals go negative, and then it just becomes an overwhelming addictive bad habit.

i've been depressed since i was at least 14, if not since i was a child. and it gets better if you work at it and change stuff, but only if you're really willing. i don't really believe in pills but i don't know. it worries the hell out of me too if a bunch of teens are on them. life does improve, but you have to make it good for yourself too.
Sep 8 2011 10:28AM
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hanksy
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Yeah the pharma's are definitely inconsistent, but something like depression is so varied that its impossible to have one perfect solution. My psych teacher was really big on electroconvulsive therapy [1], as its not 100% effective but it has some really good proven results. But any psych person will tell you that the most effective treatment is a combination of therapy and drugs

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
Sep 8 2011 10:37AM
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rednecknation
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You cant eat weed, unless you put it in brownies. dumby
Sep 8 2011 11:12AM
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Randy_Quench
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I first read the thread title as "Hippy Pals"
to which i was going to reply that i hate hipsters.
but now i see the truth and this is a worthless post.
Sep 8 2011 11:13AM
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.frenchy
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YOGET FUCKED UPA
Sep 8 2011 11:21AM
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zues
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you're fucking your brain up if you do X every other weekend...
Sep 8 2011 11:55AM
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Dosh
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yo that shit sucks! i have uc, which is close and that ain't no fun either
Sep 8 2011 12:47PM
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JewRad
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and then have major depression for 4 days after cause your serotonin levels are all fucked up
Sep 8 2011 1:06PM
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Poon_Handler
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What exactly are you on?
Sep 8 2011 4:06PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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dont put them in a mint jar, someone might take 20 of them and almost miss their trip to hawaii
Sep 8 2011 4:07PM
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Raptor.
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haha i remember that
Sep 8 2011 4:10PM
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emilyiscool
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not my point, my point was that the person who suggested to take X instead of anti depressants is a fucking idiot because it would make you worse not better
Sep 8 2011 6:43PM
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inactive
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indeed
Sep 8 2011 7:17PM
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wait.what
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Prozac
Sep 9 2011 8:52AM
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Lord.Quasimoto
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you realize ur the one whos gunna be the fucking idiot if you keep taking x/m every week right?
Sep 9 2011 2:32PM
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mellifluous
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I have been on three different antidepressants and have never gotten better on any of them. In fact, my psychiatrists and doctors think that the third and final antidepressant triggered mania, so now I am bipolar, which I happened to also have psychosis with...
Anyway, it will probably be completely different for you and I hope that you will find relief in a few weeks. That being said, the reaction to antidepressants is a slow incline with a few drops here and there. It may take a long time for your mood to get better, or it may not happen at all on this particular drug (but I hope it does). Is this your first antidepressant and may I ask what it is?
Anyway, good luck and keep living life like you would. Don't expect a fast boost in your mood. :)
Sep 9 2011 2:46PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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See, I think these are bad for you for couple reasons. but i'm not gonna list any, not saying they never work cause i'm sure they do in some people. But I think they're bad for you.
Sep 9 2011 6:33PM
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Casey
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Yep and you'll be exactly at that point too doing that much ebomb
Sep 9 2011 6:40PM
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General_Ripper
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Wow I didn't know so many kids got prescribed this stuff. Not one of my friends or people that I have met and/or hang out around have to take happy pills. I just don't get it, hope you get better
Sep 9 2011 6:43PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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well they might not tell you but i'm surprised at the amount of people who get them too. They're making it so now if you need an antibiotic, a culture needs to be done to prove you need it. I don't know if they do that for depression, I'm thinking they don't so it's easier to just hand those out now.
Sep 9 2011 6:57PM
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wait.what
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Well I was assessed by 3 different psychs so does that count?
Sep 9 2011 8:19PM
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Casey
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The difference is that there's no physiological cause for depression. I mean, there is, but there's no test for it in the sense that its like, "Oh your dopamine is looking pretty low here lets write you a scrip..." You take surveys about how you respond in different situations and compare it to a time when you think you weren't depressed etc. Anti-depressents aren't going to get you high, so there's not a lot of potential for abuse unlike adderol or painkillers.
Sep 9 2011 9:00PM
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neutralzombie
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they're trained to fix problems with medicine, and not actually necessarily equip you with the right tools. common problem in psych practices. i think it's something like 80% of diagnosis are for depression, and almost half of them are poorly diagnosed. depression was recently proven to be caused environmentally. old school psychs will tell you it's a chemical imbalance, so it needs a pill, new school docs will say, it's a chemical imbalance you can generally fix with proper mental habits/rehabilitation. depression isn't also something that just happens, it's something that should be around for a very long time to try and cure it with meds. it should be an on going issue for years where you can't really fix it any other way that you resort to pills. generally why meds don't work, also, they probably don't work 50% of the time because of the like people said, unpredictability of it, as well as a lack of willingness people have to get better.
Sep 9 2011 10:20PM
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Casey
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I understand what you are saying, but I also thing that a large portion of the way people live in society is fundamentally toxic to the human psyche. So to say that environmental causes aren't legitimate reasons for medication are in some sense legitimate, the fundamental problem will never be solved, it will only become worse as civilization continues to 'advance' ... I predict in 100 years anti-depressents will be almost universally used from birth in order to sustain the population. As the human existence becomes more objectively useless we will need to medicate in order to fool ourselves into continuing on.
Sep 14 2011 12:33AM
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