SSRI's - You Can Shove 'Em
They didn't do squit for me. Except a bizzare side-effect when coming off one of them - My eyeballs "swished". Every time I moved my eyeballs - I'd get the sound, and feeling, of my eyes rubbing against my eye-lids. Most unpleasant.
The problem with major, or clinical depression (as opposed to reactive depression - you have a major traumatic event that sends you over the edge - most people eventually recover naturally) is that treatment is very much a hit and miss affair. There's no drug that works for even a significant proportion of the population all of the time. It really is trial and error - with error winning most of the time.
I spent my time in hell. A few in-patient stays at the Napoleon Factory. I went through, probably, about 10 different drug regimes and then they found one that worked - for me. Mirtazapine.
I've been on it for about 10 years now. Tried to reduce the dose or come off it a few times - unsuccessfully. A couple of days without I can handle, or a week of half the dose but that's it. Then my Black Dog symptoms come crashing through my life. Can't sleep, can't eat, can't think. So I go back to my normal dose and all is well in about 24 hours.
I think I'll stick with my drug. The alternative is feeling like it's Sunday afternoon at Gran's house and Songs Of Praise is on the telly. Every. Second. Of. Every. Day.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 14:37,
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I was a little put off by the Zispin-branded pen the psychologist wielded, but...
Mirtazapine. Mmm. Have spent about six of the last ten years gobbling the things, on and off. On now of course (curses). Would be wonderful if it weren't for the initial bonkers appetite spike. Goodbye accusations of anorexia, hello pointed remarks about exercise! Woo.
Saw the original story and thought "ooh" before imaginings of bad trips took over. And if there's one thing of which I can be fairly certain, it's that I would be one of those who worries themselves into a bad experience.
Antidepressants would be so much sexier if they made them look like the Bad Drugs. Some kind of preperation/consumption ritual would add to the experience too.
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Karpati Footnote Never knowingly interesting, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 18:53,
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