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2012-10-07 12:57 4009303 Anonymous Depressed fags, unite! (image.jpg 720x576 155kB)
I've been to the doctor several times (not a psychiatrist but a regular doctor) and I keep getting non-refillable prescriptions of depression meds and I hate having to go back to get more so when I run out I run out. I'm fine for a month or two but then it comes back and gets worse again and oh god I can't take it anymore. I'm going crazy. I even started smoking to try to calm myself down (yeah, smoking is bad for you, I know but this and alcohol is all I have access to at the moment etc etc.) I think I might just break down and see a psychiatrist (pun intended). Depressionfags experience with psychiatrists and anti-depression meds? I was on Zoloft 100mg and it more or less worked for me.

1 min later 4009311 Anonymous
>>4009303 do meds actually work?

2 min later 4009316 Anonymous
>>4009311 Yes but it rips away your soul in the process and your ability to orgasm along with it :(

3 min later 4009321 Anonymous
>>4009316 Souls aren't real and I am a virgin. Sign me up, I see no downsides

9 min later 4009348 Anonymous
I have like no friends and everyone it seems hates me. I can't do anything right.. I'm socially retarded that I offend people all the time and I have no idea what I'm doing. Yep. That's me.

9 min later 4009350 Anonymous
For about 4-5 years I was severely depressed. Lethargic motion, no appetite, no pleasure in anything, everything was absurdly stressful, etc. Medication from my psychiatrist helped me get from severe to moderate. I'm still depressed and have trouble finding pleasure in things, but I don't constantly think about killing myself and feeling soulless. The improvement has plateaued unfortunately, but life is at least not constant suffering.

13 min later 4009363 Anonymous
Took Zoloft 50mg for a few months, didn't see a huge improvement, but I think I felt better.. Went up to 100mg and then it made me sleep all the time. Naturally that made me feel worse. I just tapered off it after that. I'm considering going onto another med, but it seems more hassle than it's worth with all the side effects.

13 min later 4009371 Anonymous
>>4009350 What are you taking and you do you cope now? I think I have mild depression because I have a lot of the symptoms that describe depression. I am able to cope most of the time and just take fish oil which seems to help. I used to worse when I wasn't taking it and if I don't take it now for several days I feel like shit Why does depression cause stress though? If you get no pleasure from things, why do you get stressed? Because I get stressed so thought it had nothing to do with depression

14 min later 4009382 Anonymous
>>4009316 How does it work? I tried meds before and I wasn't really horny as much

43 min later 4009554 Anonymous
>>4009382 It kills your emotions

45 min later 4009568 Japanese Lettuce Hardcore
>>4009371 Depression is stemmed from stress. Not the other way around. But I can imagine feeling hopelessness and isolation can make some stressed about their situtaion

46 min later 4009572 Anonymous
>>4009371 >What are you taking and you do you cope now? Bupropion and Citalopram for depression, and Risperidone for other things. I cope okay with the depression. I've started participating in my hobbies again and have the will to take care of my health again. I think the most troubling thing still remaining is that my pleasure in activities is still somewhat dull, as most of my positive feelings are. The only thing really stopping me from functioning now is anxiety, which suddenly got worse in the last year or so for reasons I don't understand. >I think I have mild depression I wouldn't worry too much unless it stops you from functioning. >Why does depression cause stress though? Well, I didn't mean stress, but I was still very stressed. I meant that even the smallest things are extremely exhausting like when you're extremely stressed. But these little things stress you out very quickly because they're so exhausting. >If you get no pleasure from things, why do you get stressed? Because things are extremely exhausting. Even mundane tasks like doing laundry tire you out. And doing the bare minimum to survive adds up quickly to stress you out. >Because I get stressed so thought it had nothing to do with depression It doesn't have to, it just can be related.

46 min later 4009574 Anonymous
>>4009568 ahhh you really are here 24/7 i just dont get it i have no life and always see you here so...

49 min later 4009593 Japanese Lettuce Hardcore
>>4009574 Well, it's physically impossible for me to be on here 24/7 since I sleep 10ish hours a day. So your logic is pretty flawed/

49 min later 4009596 Anonymous
>tfw you sit in front of your computer for 12+ hours a day feeling dead inside >tfw you are too poor to even attempt to take meds >tfw it never gets better

49 min later 4009599 Anonymous
>>4009574 Its an obese mid 20s american white male He also trolls as the other two "female" trips. Just stop replying and ignore him

52 min later 4009614 Japanese Lettuce Hardcore
>>4009599 >other two Well, I assume you think I'm Swami. But who is the other one? :/

52 min later 4009615 Anonymous
>>4009568 I'm not sure if depression is always stemmed from being stressed. Sometimes yes. For me, depressions comes about when I actually have far too little to do and can't motivate myself enough. Funnily enough, I tend to get stressed when I feel better and go out and do the things I seek to do or try to achieve goals. Although in some cases if the stress gets too much, then it can put me back into a depression.

54 min later 4009637 Anonymous
I want to be depressed to have an excuse for what a horrible human being I am.

54 min later 4009639 Anonymous
>>4009599 You must not know how hard it is to keep something like that running.

57 min later 4009650 Japanese Lettuce Hardcore
>>4009615 I never said depression is always stemmed from being stressed. Depression is one of many problems that people who are stressed suffer from. People can be stressed doing the simplest things. Self-isolation causes it. You see social-anxiety only arised in the late 21 century, when we become more dependent on technology. The suffers get stressed from being around people, from seeing new things. An overload of what their not used to.

58 min later 4009670 Anonymous
>>4009639 You are seriously underestimating the free time of a NEET

1 hours later 4009685 Anonymous
I'm in a rehab right now taking Seroquel and some shit for seizures. Shit's pretty cool, better than the Risperdal I used to take.

1 hours later 4009695 Anonymous
>>4009650 Fuck off cunt, you know nothing of depression.

1 hours later 4009705 Japanese Lettuce Hardcore
>>4009670 >neet B-but, anon-kun, I'm in education! >>4009695 I know more about depression than the people who are depressed. People suffering from depression hardly even know why or what their feeling, they have no idea what casues it. I do.

1 hours later 4009710 Anonymous
>tfw the best I've felt in a long time was when under sedatives in hospital to have tubes stuck into me, marrow extracted, or before going into surgery. Whatever it is they gave me, it's some kind of miracle substance. I can kind of understand why people get hooked on opiates.

1 hours later 4009805 Anonymous
Used to be on a low dosage of paroxetine. It made me feel happy for no reason but also very sleepy. I was horny all the time but in the beginning it is almost impossible to get an orgasm. It probably would be very pleasurable for the ladies. Now I try to cope without. Result is I'm nervous and extremely emotional. My mood changes a lot within a short period of time. I also feel somehow more receptive and spurred without. But I now have the feeling that I'll need to take something soon again.

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