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[MaximumZero]

dump the drugs, they turn people into zombies.

You see this here?  It's what is called absolutely terrible advice.  You and your doctor know more about your health than some dude on the internet.

Indeed. If you're being turned into a zombie, your dosage is too high. Way too high. The prozac really just keeps me from getting thrown into prison for rampaging through office supply stores at random.

[Lord Inquisitor]

The prozac really just keeps me from getting thrown into prison for rampaging through office supply stores at random.

This quote alone makes me feel better. (resists urge to swap your pills for sugar)

[MaximumZero]

Do you randomly rampage through OPSS stores?

[Lord Inquisitor]

Do you randomly rampage through OPSS stores?

Nope, don't do drugs, goverment supplied or not. So no random rampages in Office Products Sales Service stores. Assumming thats what it stands for. Have urge to go on massive city destroying rampare to cause hune amount of destructions and other horrible acts to person, oh yes. But I wait, eventually i shall destroy all with time. 
The drink helps get through the working day. never enough.

[MaximumZero]

Office Products and Supplies Stores.

Close enough, though.

[Tack]

I thought that one one of the key recreational activities of the dark side.

I should but I don't.

Same. I didn't want to be part of 'with everything is better with meds' movement.
Now I rely on good ol' peer pressure to keep me in check. Doesn't work perfectly, but I enjoy the freedom.

[Hanslanda]

I thought that one one of the key recreational activities of the dark side.

I should but I don't.

Same. I didn't want to be part of 'with everything is better with meds' movement.
Now I rely on good ol' peer pressure to keep me in check. Doesn't work perfectly, but I enjoy the freedom.

I did do illegal drugs for the longest time. So, I self-medicated, because the doc's drugs made me inhuman, and also Zoloft causes cancer and birth defects apparently.

[Xantalos]

Manly tears, manly tears, manly tears...right in the feels.

[Truean]

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[zombie urist]

Guy on my floor reads The Game and subscribes to that PUA stuff. 

[Yoink]

Wait, wha-- Ohhh. You mean, you live in an apartment building/dorm, and someone in a neighbouring apartment on the same floor as you does so?

Sorry for being dense, it's just when I first read that post I thought you were talking about the homeless dude who lives on your floor by the fridge, eating your food and managing your magazine subscriptions.

[scriver]

dump the drugs, they turn people into zombies.
Never took them and never will.

Since it's early and I'm too tired to formulate a new response, I'm just going to quote what I wrote a few days ago:

And the one time the doc gave me antidepressents, they made me feel like an inhuman sociopath. I felt like everything was just gone. Nothing. No feeling, no fear, not a damn thing. It was pretty fucking scary.

There's this common misconception that antidepps are supposed to be some kind of happy pill and give you ups (or, well, make you happy); they're not. They're just supposed to make you less sad, even out your mood. This is because the downs are directly incapacitating (sucking all the will and energy and hope out) and will effectively or disrupt ongoing therapy by making you feel like it's pointless (bringing you back to square one), make you give up, or even make you unable to start therapy to begin with. The purpose of the antidepp is thus to, by countering the downs, just give you enough energy to start the therapy, and when the therapy itself gives results you can seize or lessen the dose. It's supposed to be a crutch to help you move around until you can start using your own two legs.

The issue, I believe, is that some anti depressants are basically somewhat anti-feeling, meaning that while you do feel less about the downs you'll also feel less from the ups, and this can hit you quite harshly with hard medication. It might sound counter-intuitive, and you have to ask yourself if no-feel is better than most-likely-down-feel. When it comes to keeping heavily depressed people from feeling completely hopeless, worthless, listless, and like death is the only way out, I definitely feel that making them feel less in general is an advantage.

[Gamerlord]

I thought that one one of the key recreational activities of the dark side.

I should but I don't.

Same. I didn't want to be part of 'with everything is better with meds' movement.
Now I rely on good ol' peer pressure to keep me in check. Doesn't work perfectly, but I enjoy the freedom.

I did do illegal drugs for the longest time. So, I self-medicated, because the doc's drugs made me inhuman, and also Zoloft causes cancer and birth defects apparently.

WHAT.  MY DOCTOR DID NOT TELL ME OF THIS.

[ChairmanPoo]

 ... are you pregnant, Gamerlord?

[Gamerlord]

NO! But the cancer?