Isn't it crazy some of this shit even happens?

[Flippy]

Couldn't agree more with OP (and @Flippy and @BlueWidow ).

Meds made GI conditions worse. Vomited every day so stopped eating , which had a devastating effect on my body (oh yeah, not advisable to live on 500cal a day for years lol).

I don't categorically reject those, but the lack of follow up and attention (described in threads here many times).

I went completely off food from Christmas Day to maybe a few days ago. My appetite seems somewhat restored but, I feel kinda sick thinking of food still. Might do me some good im so overweight. Don't think it was the meds in my situation.

500cal a day, you must have been extremely tired and thin! Are you doing better now?

 

[Quarky00]

500cal a day, you must have been extremely tired and thin! Are you doing better now?

Yeah.. I'm all bones. I look like a skeleton Boo !!!

( I can actually do that ^ )

Underweight/malnutrition so yes - extremely tired , joint pain , dizzy , and more
Doing bit better after recent medical intervention (nutrition and digestion)

kinda fading here must go rest, hope u r okay

 

[Flippy]

Yeah.. I'm all bones. I look like a skeleton Boo !!!

( I can actually do that ^ )

Underweight/malnutrition so yes - extremely tired , joint pain , dizzy , and more
Doing bit better after recent medical intervention (nutrition and digestion)

kinda fading here must go rest, hope u r okay

That's quite the talent! :-) Sounds like you went through a really tough time with the malnutrition, joint pain (really sucks) and dizziness. Glad that they managed to help you and you are doing a bit better at least!

Rest is good! Fill up your boots! :-)

 

[Cevapcici]

Mah, as much as I would like to " take responsibility" , things that landed me here were , in vast majority, out of my control. I always did my best ( even if it wasn't enough), so I'd be more of a demotivator to young people than a life lesson / counter example. The advice I could give the younger generation might be pretty cynical : " if you want to survive ; forgive about your principles and morals and learn to be a snarky, remorseless, manipulate and predatory a**hole , and well..ofc work on yourself as well - it makes up for about 20-30% of your success in life. Oh , and also don't forget to be born with good genetics, in a neurotypical wealthy family in the first place"

As to psychiatric drugs....well, personally...ahem...I'm a suicidal zombie with no self control anyways, so maybe I should have given it a try when things were still fixable. But then again....is it worthwhile giving it a try, considering the shattering side effects it might have ? I know a woman who's sister ( who was being treated for bipolar ) commited suicide because her drugs made her morbidly obese in a 1-2 month time lapse, and she couldn't cope with going from a 10/10 to an obese woman so she commited suicide. My dad took antidepressants at some points and it made him gain a lot of weight as well - without even changing his diet . So at least , I'm not going to die obese.... I guess?

 

[Flippy]

I think these things often are mostly out of our control. That's what makes it so hard "get over" as well people often advise and also some psychiatrists! The exact phrase "Take responsibility..." Was leveled at me when I was in the middle of a real crisis. That virtually finished me off at the time. And I spent hours looking at the lost all hope website for ways to "take responsibility". The psychiatrist doubled my dose of an SSRI and within 48 hours, over the space of an hour, while I was quite literally in the middle of planning and researching ctb, my mood suddenly flipped. Like someone had flicked a switch it felt that sudden. I felt really good and the thoughts of ctb pretty much vanished. Then I started to feel really on edge and like I had an urge to just get out of bed at 2 in the morning, do something, anything! I was trying to sleep but I felt like I was really buzzing with energy and I kept on jolting out of sleep and it was really driving me mad. I didn't get much if any sleep. I didn't like what I was feeling so I halved the dose again. And within a few days I leveled out somewhat.

My feeling at the moment is that we really are still in the dark ages as far as mental health and medicines go. I seriously do wonder if my life would have gone much better, if I hadn't taken a psychiatric med when I was still basically a kid. Maybe I would be depressed still quite a lot. I don't know. I read somewhere recently that until you are in your mid 20s your brain is still forming. I was well below that age when I first got meds and I really do wonder if I fecked myself up good and proper. Obviously with the help of a doctor. I wish they had been more engaged and had actually warned me and were watching out for the potential serious side effects. I was so young I just completely trusted the doctor and what he prescribed. And worst of all I thought it would make me well again.

 

[Starcitty]

This thread is making me weary asfk about considering psychiatric drugs for my depression.

It sucks that the symptoms from this medication are this bad. It's like punishing people even further and some people depend on these drugs. I've never had any experience with these types of drugs either so I can't talk from experience.

 

[Zoltiel]

This thread is making me weary asfk about considering psychiatric drugs for my depression.

It sucks that the symptoms from this medication are this bad. It's like punishing people even further and some people depend on these drugs. I've never had any experience with these types of drugs either so I can't talk from experience.

I've heard someone say they even think there's a conspiracy to sterilize the population that has mental health issues.

 

[Broken Chimera]

This thread is making me weary asfk about considering psychiatric drugs for my depression.

It sucks that the symptoms from this medication are this bad. It's like punishing people even further and some people depend on these drugs. I've never had any experience with these types of drugs either so I can't talk from experience.

I can't say it won't work for you, but after what I've experienced and what I saw happen to others I'd advise against it. But if you're gonna try, do research on whatever they give you so you can at least know if the risks outweigh the benefits.

I've heard someone say they even think there's a conspiracy to sterilize the population that has mental health issues.

I believe it. They already treat the mentally ill worse than animals. Off topic but where are the pro lifers on this? They fight to keep people alive but won't fight against the treatment of people in mental hospitals and psychiatrists that make them worse off than before they went in?

 

[TAW122]

I agree and think they should study the reasons and causes for people to want to CTB rather than keep viewing CTB'ing as a disease and something that needs to stopped at all costs. However, that is still far from reality and chances are, they are still heavily motivated by $$$$ than whether or not someone really gets 'better'.

When I was a teenager, which was back in the 1980s, I became a ward of the state and I was forcibly given all kinds of psychiatric meds. I was made to take them whether they made me feel better or not, and no matter what the side effects were. I'll never know the effect those drugs had on me and are still having on me to this day. But I have no doubt that they screwed up my still developing teenage brain and probably other systems in my body as well. And it was all perfectly legal because I was a ward of the state and I had absolutely no rights of any kind. I was passed around like an unwanted package.

Very sorry to hear that, that's really inhumane and those asylums do more harm than good.

 

[ExitCanada]

They need to just have a class in high school where they read and study this forum so kids know exactly what NOT to do in life. Many of our mistakes that landed us here could have been avoided easily.

Before finding this forum, I had NO idea that all these psychiatric drugs have such DEVASTATING effects that drive people to suicide. I was recently even planning to visit a psychiatrist to get help with the thoughts that rape my mind that I have just been living with. I probably would have blindly accepted whatever drugs they would have given me, and ended up here anyways.

Life is comical.

I always recommend that folks carefully read all the side-effects of any prescribed drugs. Sometimes the meds are worse than the curse that has befallen us because of illness.