Meds? (poll)

[acey]

Do you take any prescription meds? Feel free to elaborate in the comments

 

[deathwish4ev]

ive been taking every single type of psychiatric medicine under the sun and none of them have ever helped at all. i was functional on vyvanse & valium but doctors wont prescribe that. im now just desperately waiting to build up the nerve to jump off a bridge

 

[AmericanMary]

Been on psych meds for yearssss. My las regiment was 7. I stopped around the time I joined SaSu.

 

[Old Friend]

Was off them for a few months. Been persuaded to try yet another drug. I doubt it'll work any better than the previous ones.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Never took them and never plan to.

 

[sancta-simplicitas]

Was on Zoloft from 15 - 27 (before they actually realized it's a bad idea to prescribe antidepressants to children..) went through literal Hell when tapering them off in two weeks. Also tried a couple of antipsychotics (off-label for dissociation..) and one of them traumatized me, the other made me stupid and paranoid. Never touching anything coming from a psychiatrist again.

 

[Elle]

Unfortunately, I do.

 

[SilentSadness]

I used to take antidepressants but they did nothing except give nasty side effects like fatigue. I think they're just a scam to get people hooked on a lifetime supply of expensive drugs.

 

[sos]

i went from zero meds to five diff kind of meds at one point

they had little to no noticeable effect

i do have to say that sleeping pills sure worked its magic

at some point i just quit taking all of them after ive had them for like 2-3 months

 

[EternalHappiness]

SSRIs gave me PSSD, POTS, and ME/CFS. The only reason I'm in this forum is because of irreversible damage from psych meds.

 

[divinemistress36]

They dont work but they are impossible to get off so I stay on them

 

[Cinnamorolls]

I have been on a huge amount of psych meds over the years, in many combinations, none of which did much. My psych is having me take a GeneSight DNA test this month which will apparently let us know which meds would work best for me. There's some controversy over the test and its accuracy but I figured it's worth a try just to see.

 

[sugarb]

Do you take any prescription meds? Feel free to elaborate in the comments

I used to take depression meds and something that basically just slowed me down to reduce ADHD. I started skipping days experimentally about a month ago then stopped cold turkey after a week. Just as suicidal as I was before, but how good I'll be at schoolwork in the fall remains to be seen

 

[PinballWizard39]

I've been on a shit-ton of anti-depressants, anti=psychotics, sleeping pills, anxiety pills, mood stabilisers - all sorts. Mostly they do nothing. I also have a habit of self medicating with alcohol or various other over-the-counter meds if things get real bad. I'm not proud of that, but 'whatever takes the pain away' I suppose.

 

[astr4]

ssris and i self medicate with drug of the week generally weed or benzos but cycle through them for tolerance purposes

and then self medicated w amphetamine analogues back when i still worked and just needed to stay awake running on 2 hrs sleep

and again self medicating lol percs for emergency like "bro i need to kill myself this is intolerable" when i'm not thinking rationally and i wanna impulsively ctb without a proper plan.

used to take antipsychotics just for sleep LMAO but they messed w my insulin levels so i gave that one up

z drugs mostly didn't work on me oddly enough. didn't get any ambien sleep alas.

 

[timetodie24]

Tried a few different meds for depression but none really helped my mood. I think it made my SH worse too. So now I don't take any

 

[VeryShy]

I self-medicate in the absolute sense of that term. Don't like medicine in general, especially psychiatry by far.

 

[indefinitesleep]

decided to try my hand at parnate as a last hope, doesnt do shit for me but atleast I get to nap alot from the fatigue