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GEEZ! ...are some medications worth it?

You look 'em up , and the side affects and long term affects really make me wonder if its just better to hack it out med free.

Do doctors even pay attention to what you say? Ive just been given stuff that made my blood pressure sky rocket to stroke levels .

This isnt the first time my doctor has been ignorant . I want to throttle her . She takes no notes , and shoves pills at me with no questions asked.

And i chose her coz she's indian, [you know , India indian , not red indian,] Not to stereo type , but i thought she might be open to more treatments than just shoving tablets at a person .

Im so over this .
I think ill stick with cold Turkey .....and booze😏

You have any bad choices by doctors thrown at you ?
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Not to me ..not the depression or anti anxiety meds
..not for me anyway
@SW-User did you ever find the right ones?
I tried some .....but they seemed useless, or made me feel worse.
Some caused my body swell up, some made sleep nigh impossible .
One gave me gastric inflammation .

I gave up in the end .
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@OogieBoogie No ...I don't want to go down that road ...
@SW-User ahhh. Sorry , i misunderstood .

I dont either now . I think she actually did me a favour .
I toughed it out .........and feel better for doing it .
I mean....it was FUCKING HORRIBLE !
But - it helped me face my demons .

Not that im miss sunshine now. But im stronger, more resilient .
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@OogieBoogie I feel like every wave of depression I ride out I feel the same ...resilient
@SW-User this is good .
Sad....but possitive.

Every little step counts .

I think there is a temporary place for anxiety/depression drugs . But they meant to be temporary.
And i think they can be a trap for some people.
They arent meant to be taken for long periods , and at some point , you have to come off them .

For me.....i think i prefer the tough road of slowly, painfully learning to cope .
Feeling better......only to fall back whe the drugs are taken away , frankly scares the shit out of me .

Im not sure i could cope falling back , again .
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@OogieBoogie I'm realizing it's ok to feel deeply ..
To feel emotional pain ...it's all ok ...it's ok to feel all the shitty feelings and just cope the best you can ...i don't need meds to numb it away ...i go numb all by myself eventually without ....then eventually come out of it ....
@SW-User i think thats an amazing revelation.

I also think its very important to feel...everything .

Years ago, i was a teenager who never got mad or upset , everyone thought i was 'so mature '.
But......im my early 20's i had a something akin to a psychological break. My mind just cracked open and id episodes of intense 'crazy' in my head . I lost all my control over my feelings and they raged .

But because of this , i found out: ypu cant truly feel happiness if you cant truly feel saddness.
Years of blocking out bad feelings is what broke me . But breaking kinda saved me . In fact , learning that lesson helped me this time round .

Its different causes , and different circumstances , but the ethos is the same . Be at peace accepting your saddness/anger/etc.
Its only then , we can process it .

If we numb it with something else like shopping , drugs, any sort of addiction .....or even denial - it doesn't get processed, it stays there and festers.......until you snap and it breaks free, like it did in my 20's.

You cant tie this shit down or cover it up.
Energy NEEDS to flow , whether good or bad .🤷‍♀️
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@OogieBoogie I completely agree with that . It all makes sense ...it's not fun or pleasant but it needs to happen so that we can move forward and hopefully heal ...I'm tired of being told to go on meds or go to a therapist. I know my own mind .I know my own feelings better then anyone does . I know why I am the way I am . I know I have trauma ,and issues...I don't pretend to be perfect. But now I feel like I know how to get through it ...it's hard .. so frikking hard but it's the way I need to do it to get through it ...the only way out is through ...maybe I'm taking the hard path but it will make me stronger and time and time again I will see I can get through it again if the depression wave hits me
@SW-User i feel very strongly about this.

Too many think happiness is this 'goal of eternal state' we should be in.
But you cant be constantly happy . Its an endophin , a body chemical, a drug. And our body acclimates to drugs . You would need more and more endophins to stay happy . Its impossible .

We need saddness , to give happiness meaning .

But i also think its harder to be happy these days . We have so many good things we take for granted, ( fresh water, food, homes, internet, tv, entertainment on hand ), its harder to reach happiness .

Our bar of 'normalacy' has been raised .
And i think its why the generation after us is so medicated. They have it even harder . Nearly everything is instant for them . Instant gratification is normal for them, not a reward, or a wait, or a save up to get it , or work for it .....its there : games , music , entertainment, clothes, information, all delivered to your fingertips or door .

How does one develop emotional resilience in a world where you can block who you dont like ?

We NEED to deal with shit. Suffer a little to know when we have it good.

Its that old yin yang thing. We cant just pick one .🤷‍♀️😏
@SW-User and yes , you know yourself better than anyone.

And not all psychologists are good ones . Ive been given some shitty advice in my time .
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@OogieBoogie yes exactly...my kid has anxiety issues but i make him face it and cope the best he can ...i tell him its ok to have these big feelings ...and he will get through it ...one step at a time ...I won't medicate him either ....Being happy all the time isn't normal ...like you said ...
@SW-User ive kinda had similar converstaions with one of my children about this .
So many of their friends are on medication, or multiple meds . Nearly every one of them either has a diagnosis or is seeking one .

And the saddest part is , for some of them, their diagnosis is the end point . Its not about getting better, or slowly overcoming ther issues. They seem to accept it as a final destination.

Ive tried to explain to my child, that self discovery is a good thing , and that you wont always like what you find , but that its also a starting point , not an end point . And that medication is only a bandaid , not a solution .
If you shove all your emotional 'laundry' under a 'bed' of medication, it doesn't go away . Its still there . And are you ready to see wjat that emotinal laundry has turned into in 5.....10 years?
And are they ready to face what 5 to 10 years of medication is going to do to thier body?
Ugh ....its a messy world isnt it?
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@OogieBoogie yes,that's been my experience too . I don't want to even open pandoras box with medications...these are just kids being kids ...there is nothing wrong with them .They aren't robots they are children ...oi vey ! It's so frustrating....No I will not medicaate my child because teachers do not know and are not willing to learn to teach differently to children whose brains are wired differently...story of my effing life ...
Don't get me started on this m...I'm afraid I've got no off switch
@SW-User oh....i hear you .
I have a child with severe autism
AND i work at a high school.

And no body fucking listens .😠
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@OogieBoogie I work with children who have Autism and special needs in an elementary school and have a kid with ADD and it's been rough ...no they don't listen