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[Hanslanda]

My wife's troublesome sister went off the road while drunk and was ejected through the windshield. She's probably going to die today.

[Kagus]

My wife's troublesome sister went off the road while drunk and was ejected through the windshield. She's probably going to die today.

Shit, dude... Mixed feelings galore. Pretty heavy regardless... How's the wife doing?

[TD1]

Oh dear lord. I'm very sorry, for you and your wife's family.

I don't think there's much more to be said, unfortunately...

[Hanslanda]

She's minute to minute.

[Wizard of Manaia]

Actually I was going to suggest to get off the ssri.
Then prescribe exercise and avoiding drugs all together.
If giving advice in a thread of sadness is to be attacked by a few reductionist claims due to my choice of poetry, profile picture and mycoremediation hobby (that is without doubt a good thing for our environment) then Of course I will lead you ashtray.
Cool keep funding Monsanto Bayer with your medication choices.
Mother knows best and its best you listen to her.
Like i said, you are riding your idealisms faster and faster away from forming your own opinion.
Of course its hard to get over the childhood brainwash.

[Naturegirl1999]

Actually I was going to suggest to get off the ssri.
Then prescribe exercise and avoiding drugs all together.
If giving advice in a thread of sadness is to be attacked by a few reductionist claims due to my choice of poetry, profile picture and mycoremediation hobby (that is without doubt a good thing for our environment) then Of course I will lead you ashtray.
Cool keep funding Monsanto Bayer with your medication choices.
Mother knows best and its best you listen to her.
Like i said, you are riding your idealisms faster and faster away from forming your own opinion.
Of course its hard to get over the childhood brainwash.

I am unsure why people are attacking you, it is expected to give advice in this thread

[Doomblade187]

Actually I was going to suggest to get off the ssri.
Then prescribe exercise and avoiding drugs all together.
If giving advice in a thread of sadness is to be attacked by a few reductionist claims due to my choice of poetry, profile picture and mycoremediation hobby (that is without doubt a good thing for our environment) then Of course I will lead you ashtray.
Cool keep funding Monsanto Bayer with your medication choices.
Mother knows best and its best you listen to her.
Like i said, you are riding your idealisms faster and faster away from forming your own opinion.
Of course its hard to get over the childhood brainwash.

Sigh, the SSRIs are evil thingy again.

Look, SSRI medication is not for everyone, but is very helpful for many people who suffer from depression. Please don't paint with a broad negative brush a helpful medication that already has a large negative stigma associated with it.

[Wizard of Manaia]

While I do agree with you that it has its place, I disagree with the ones who suggest such things for minds which they do not reside.
Just like you suggest I used some metaphysical paint brush of negative energy, it was you who painted with negative energy like it's a bad thing. This is incorrect, positive and negative do not equal good and bad or darkness or light.

I understand these are the tools and failings of our language and cultures but it might help to get your point across without using 'negative' with the meaning of bad/evil.

People attack and become ignorant to what they do not or choose not to understand. It is a fear of the unknown and a fear of what has been pushed upon us to fear.
The truth is that these things they fear have a place within and without, no need to attack what you fear if it doesn't attack you right?
Hmmm speaks volumes of what our collective childhoods are repressed with.
Much love to all going through strife, I assure you this pain blossoms if you allowed it instead of repressing it. We've done enough as children, now is the time to look within not without.

[Rolan7]

I woke up way too early and had an open 40 nearby. Eventually I decided not to let it go bad. Unfortunately rather than helping me "cope" with all these recent feelings, it's kinda magnifying them. Which really doesn't surprise me, this was an awful idea.

People I know are experiencing more stress than even before, and I'm doing my best but I almost gave up on today because I spent an hour looking for my car key in my disregarded mess I call a room.

It was in my car door from when i tried to lock it last night, but my housemate desperately needed help with his *continuing* attempts to fix his car himself.

[Dunamisdeos]

Apparently I missed some stuff.
 
Anti depressants are fine, they are prescribed in order to treat an illness. While most depressions have their base in concrete circumstance or trauma, you can't really work on those factors if you're chained down by clinical depression. The idea is to take the meds if you need them, which gets you functioning up to a level where you can work on removing the cause of your depression.
 
This is a huge oversimplification, of course, but that's the working principle.
 
While i don't judge people who turn to alternative means of treatment, they often end up seeing the treatment as the end goal. That is to be avoided. The point is to try and take steps to remove the impetus behind depression, not juice up until it doesn't bother you for the next few hours. The (very false) idea that recovery isn't possible is one of the most insidious things that depression can use to fuel itself.

[Reelya]

People attack and become ignorant to what they do not or choose not to understand. It is a fear of the unknown and a fear of what has been pushed upon us to fear.

Oh get off the high horse. Trying to influence people to get off their psych meds of any type is dangerous and has a good chance of backfiring. It's nothing to do with being ignorant to say that a teenager on the internet isn't a good source of that advice.

Some people react badly to SSRIs, so it's bad to give out that advice to take SSRIs randomly. That's at least theoretically bad advice, but at least they'd have to go see a doctor to get anywhere with it.

But overall, people on SSRIs have better outcomes. Only small percentage have adverse outcomes. If you tell someone to stop, then statistically speaking, that's bad advice.

And telling people to stop their meds is something they can do without any doctor intervening. So it's bad advice which is easily followed, which puts it in the "dangerous" category of advice. You're basically promoting the idea of ignoring their doctor's advice.

[Kagus]

Actually I was going to suggest to get off the ssri.
Then prescribe exercise and avoiding drugs all together.

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[Yoink]

Psychiatrists aren't exactly infallible, anyway. The last one I spoke to was bizarrely okay with my alcohol abuse but had an attitude to cannabis that was straight outta the 1930s.   


@Rolan: I envy you for your beer breakfast (and the fact that your country sells 40s!), but why were you trying to lock your car?

[TamerVirus]

Considering we're all on a forum about a video game of insane and angry dwarves trying to survive day to day life, perhaps exactly 0 people here are qualified/well-adjusted enough to give pertinent pharmaceutical opinions or advice.

Ask your doctor if medical advice from bay12 is right for you!

[Doomblade187]

Considering we're all on a forum about a video game of insane and angry dwarves trying to survive day to day life, perhaps exactly 0 people here are qualified/well-adjusted enough to give pertinent pharmaceutical opinions or advice.

Ask your doctor if medical advice from bay12 is right for you!

Your doctor will run screaming out the office!