Are "anti" depressants really what they say they are?

I know first hand how ironic anti depressants are.
Before i started taking them, i was just an angry person.
After, i was suicidle, depressed, etc.
And the suicide tendencies of people who take anti depressants go tremendously up. What do you guys think?

 

wtf

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I take anti depressants my self to and they work a bit as far i know.
However when you quit using them you can get really depressed.
That why you gota do it slowly.

You can also get suicidal by taking anti depressants (After effects)

 

Antidepressants saved my life. Quite literally.

I have heard of cases where people act differently after taking them, but most of the time it's in a more positive manner.

 

They are proven to work, and they are proven to fail
The potential link between antidepressant use and the emergence of suicidality is currently an active topic not only in the scientific community but also in the popular media. Vivid stories of children, adolescents, and adults committing suicide while taking antidepressants have been widely featured on television and in the print media. It is beyond the scope (or ability) of this paper to present a comprehensive overview or definitive conclusion about whether antidepressant use contributes to suicidality. This is an extremely complex issue for which we believe the jury is still out. The focus of this paper instead is on the accuracy of recent media coverage of the topic. This is an especially relevant issue as most people (including those taking or who have children who are taking antidepressants) acquire information through newspapers, television, and the Internet.
According to the Centers for Disease Control’s National Vital Statistics Report, 1,883 children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 committed suicide in 2001. There is significant evidence that a majority of these individuals likely suffered from some form of psychopathology, often depression (Brent, Baugher, Bridge, Chen, & Chiappetta, 1999; Shaffer & Craft, 1999). There is also evidence of an increase in the use of psychotropic medications for children and adolescents, with utilization rates approaching that of adults (Zito et al., 2003). On March 22, 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a Public Health Advisory warning of the potential risk of worsening depression and/or emergence of suicidality in both adult and pediatric patients taking several antidepressants. This story received significant media coverage.

Source: http://www.srmhp.org/0301/media-watch.html

Go there....................^

 

They fucked me up, but I'm sure they work for someone. I guess it just depends on the person.

 

if you dont have actuall depression then it makes it worse, they saved me, and i still take them lol

 

Well i had depression, it still made it worse. It was zoloft.

 

ANti depressants work to balance the chimicals in your brain as it has been proven depression is caused by a simple overload of one chemical and not enough of another. So if you DON'T have depression and you take them it will in turn have the opposite effect and could make you depressed or in some cases make you into a VERY angry person...

edit: and if you focus on the VERY small percentage of people who have committed suicide while onthem it is just like saying all muslims are terrorists... Whats to say it (the suicide) wasn't caused by something else anyway ? I mean if your on anti-depressants you must have been close to suicide anyway so whats to say that it isn't just them getting a fleeting moment of suicidal thoughts and they impulsively acted upon it ?

 

Yeah some people get suicidal after using anti-depresants, mostly just teens. Well when they are depressed they usually are very tired and they have no energy to actually try to kill themselves. But when they take the Zoloft or Prozac they have much more energy and they are active enough to kill themselves.

^^^^^^ That statement is true I heard it from a pharmacist.

 

i think theyre helpful, they helped my friend when he was about to kill himself, his parents and school was too much on him and he hated his life

 

I herd there pretty helpful. Never used them.

 

I couldnt agree more with you, I was also on them. I was angry to begin with, after use of them I had complete mood swings and suicidal impulses probably trippled.

Overall they've done me good, but they do have negatives don't get me wrong. Generally though they enabled me to get back on life and start making positive changes, they made me bounce back. But the slightest thing to go wrong didn't make me sad, but made me confident to kill myself.

Mental Health depends vastly on the actual person, It's not like a physical illness it varies massivley. The drugs will have totally different affects on different people not just because of their chemical balance but beacause of their current life situation and the person they are anyway.

Anti Depressenants contain Seretonin, this is found naturally in foods and is released after exercise. They call it the happy chemical because the more you have of it the happier you are, more appetite and better sleep it controls. The brain has too much though and it can fuck you up as much as not having enough.

 

IMO, anti-depressants barely work.. I mean they always make you sad and depressed instead of angry. SOTB, I suggest you stop taking them. Wouldn't want to see you go =]

 

That was me. It made me feel retarded, didn't help. My head just felt completely empty, I wasn't myself. I'm ok now, just the occasional sadness over stupid crap, etc.

Ditto. That's some bad stuff.

 

I just refuse to take zoloft now...
I feel 100x happier.

 

i recomend zoloft cause my qwhole family take it and take enough you get high

 

Yeah, no.....
I think your just spamming your post count...
And that added nothing, and i'm sure your whole family doesn't take it.

 

Duno where you live but in my country you can only get anti depressants if the docters tell you that you need it.
Anyways i take "Citalopram"

I don't think you should just stop taking them its really bad to just quit you gota do it in steps.

 

Well I've heard that people who have their chemicals in their body screwed up which causes them to be either depressed or enlightened in an instant.
I've heard "anti" depressants don't always work and could cause the opposite effect.

To me I view anti depressants to be another drug to satisfy those that are Bipolar, and always constantly switching around in mood.