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Experience of Prozac
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Does anybody have any experience of Prozac? I really think I should take it (for obvious reasons) but will not go to a doctor! Its available to purchase online so getting hold of it shouldn’t be a problem.
I have heard lots of scare stories about the drug, but it can’t all be bad if it helps so many people.
I would really appreciate people’s advice and opinions about it; It would be really good to hear from someone who has been on it.
I have been trying to deal with things without the use of anti-depressants for a couple of years now, but I really have just given up.
Prozac; Bad idea or not??
Cheers guys :thumb:
I have heard lots of scare stories about the drug, but it can’t all be bad if it helps so many people.
I would really appreciate people’s advice and opinions about it; It would be really good to hear from someone who has been on it.
I have been trying to deal with things without the use of anti-depressants for a couple of years now, but I really have just given up.
Prozac; Bad idea or not??
Cheers guys :thumb:
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I don't have first hand experience with that drug, but I heard stories about the side-effects. If you have a fucking issue and think you need to take a drug for it, seek a health professional to give you pros and cons.
And also if 10mins of embarrassment matters to you so much more than getting the correct help, then you obviously dont need it anyway
Yes i have been on it in the past, but i have also been on another one. It's not up to you to decide what antidepressants suit you..
YOU CANNOT SEE THE SHIT ON YOUR BACK
Exactly. Why do you need prozac speciffically ? There are lots of anti-d's on the market. It took me a long while to find the right one for me, mainly because i was misdiagnosed by the psychiatric hospital for years. They said i was retro-actively/clinically depressed, when in fact i was bi-polar (manic). I tried prozac, and under the care of my GP, it was found not to be good for me.
The best thing for you to do is go to a doctor, period. Or of course you could buy it on line at an extortionate price (i bet a 3 month scrip's worth is a hell of a lot cheaper), take it, succumb to all sorts of nasty side effects (some of which could be life threatening) whilst NOT being under the guidance/monitoring of a fully trained professional and end up doing something incredibly stupid because you can't go and see a doctor.
Choice is yours.
I was on prozac for a while. Under the doctor's eye. They worked for me. But I know of people that they made worse. They helped push them further over the edge. Surely if you have heard so many bad stories yourself you will know that this is A Very Bad Idea.
Swallow your pride. Visit your doc. Be a bit responsible. Instead of an idiot who is going to buy serious prescribed drugs over the internet.
thanks guys, will take your advice.
most apreciated
In your opinion.
But in my experience they work quite well, thank you.
Rubbish.
ADs are not useless. They are only useless if you don't use them properly and if you use them and hope for a miracle cure.
If you take them and try and help yourself at the same then they can work well. However, take them and expect to be cured next week and you are in cuckoo land.
Like yourself you mean ?
Who the fuck are you to call people with mental health problems 'losers' ?
There's a hell of a lot of people on here with said problems and i hope they all read it and see what an intolerant bag of shit you are.
:eek: Are you having a laugh?
Tablets alone don't really help no, they need to be taken along with other help.
As for calling people loosers, you have overstepped the mark there!
whatever happened to human repression. these people should not be heard. fuckwits.
some due respect, but i think unemployed 40+years, smokers, no education, no ambition, ALL virgins, measures grandy against my standards as a looser.
however i do accept some need for psychological input as far as it realtes to REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE and ways in which somebody has been treated.
get me out of here it makes me negative.
:rolleyes:
I have read about millionaires who are depressed. This is what convinced me money doesnt make a person happy. Depression is far more complex than I understand, but i do understand it can happen to anyone young/old educated/ uneducated virgin/non virgin smoker/non smoker.
This is why I hate it when people say what has 'that person' got to be depressed about. You can have the world at your feet and millions in the bank but if your unhappy your unhappy! Simple as that.
just my thoughts :thumb:
There is no "set" person that will suffer from depression. Depression affects many people from all sorts of different walks of life. There is no "you're such and such a person, you'll suffer from depression".
This is what makes it hard to accept for some people.
I mean, I'd love to have a house with huge garden, wifey and kids now...
the millionaire might be bored with all that.
On the other hand, I am happy when I go to the grocery store and buy cookies.... and beer. beer makes happy too... sometimes...
or.. whatever..
ignore me
Some AD's have been shown to be marginally better than placebo's, others no better at all.
Too many people take AD's thinking their problems can be cured by a little pill. I don't believe that.
I don't believe that either.
I don't believe this either. This is my point. ADs work extremely well if you take them and do other things to help yourself, like counselling for example.
ADs aren't this miracle cure to depression. But they do help when you are ill.
:rolleyes:
AD's aren't a pile of shite, either. Not unless you're not willing to help yourself as well. They didn't work for me (all 3 times I've been put on them), they don't work for other people, but that doesn't mean they don't work for everyone.
Meh.
Well the evidence I've seen is that they don't.
I'm willing to be proven otherwise but the argument 'AD's worked for me' isn't good enough for me.
All the evidence I've seen just shows that AD's are sometimes only marginally better than placebos and othertimes no better at all.
There's no real evidence that depression is a biochemical disease, which is the premise that these drugs work on. Rather than believe the adverts for these drugs, look into the actual science of of it.
http://www.seethru.co.uk/tgdg/tgdg7.mp3
I wouldnt say they made me feel happier, because thats not what they do. But they help to balance things out, they even the varying degrees of moods. To be honest I feel i have to sacrifice some of the higher moods, but then the lower moods arent the absolute hell on earth that they could be. That bit of mood stability can help you to concentrate on working through whats made you feel so bad in the first place and change the things that need to be changed.
Thats the choice you make, and if life really is so unbearable, then going to the doctors, having to take a pill, having to make some effort is nothing compared to the shit depression is.
I don't believe in the theory (because that's what it is) that depression is caused by a chemical inbalance in you brain.
It makes me laugh how many people automatically say that their depression is caused by a chemical inbalance. I mean How do they know this stuff? Somebody actually measured the levels of chemicals in their brain?
:rolleyes: