Discussion Does anyone else feel better/the same without antidepressants?

[YourLocalEdgelord]

I wasted my time risking my health instead of improving it. Side effect after side effect and after five different meds, my doc just lost interest in finding another solution. What a scam. Back in spring, at only 20°C/68°F, I was overheating. He said literally "just deal with it". I wish I was making this up.

Then the heatwave last month at 41°C/105°F hit. Europe has like no ACs, btw. I was sitting in ice cold water and was STILL overheating.

That was the final straw.

Another doc who sees me for general health matters heard about this and immediately threatened to stop treating me if I don't continue my meds.

FUCK YOU ALL, JUST SAY YOU WANNA GET RID OF LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS.

Anyway, good for all of those who found genuine help that way, but the rest of us get stigmatized and guilt tripped. I wanna talk more about that.

I'm free of meds now and feel BETTER than when I started.

 

[Salkak]

I was okay on meds . Was overheating too but still stayed on them. After a while things happened and I had to stop them. I felt amazing after stopping them but after 4 months I had something called delayed withdrawal from psychiatric meds use. It was unbearable anxiety and depression. I almost killed myself but my family saved me. Now I am back on meds but still have depression although not as debilitating. Basically High functioning depression and anxiety

 

[moriix]

the meds i tried last just made me feel very numb. i was spared some more unpleasant side effects but it definitely didnt feel.. good. I've read a lot of horror stories about meds which makes me really reluctant to try new ones :( but I've kinda reached my breaking point where I think I have to. also your doctors sound terrible, im so sorry they can be so cold and uncaring towards their patients. why even become a doctor if you hate helping people? smh...

 

[MessyNonsense]

Pharmacotherapy is over-glorified in our society. Yes some people get genuine relief on them, but for most of those people they don't realize that their meds are only a band-aid covering up the real problem. It's only a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction who actually have their problem solved by meds. I've said it before and i'll say it again: band-aid treatments can be great to give you relief, but you should use them to help support you while you do the thing that will actually fix the underlying problem.

Before anyone calls me a hippie (not that i'd take it as an insult), i'm talking about pharmacotherapy for mental health. If you just had a heart transplant and need to be on blood thinners or whatever (idk) then yeah meds can be great.

Sending hate to the shitty doctors of everyone in this thread