Little_Sticks
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edit: I'm not going to go off my medication unless I consult my doctor again and she approves, but for anyone answering the hypothetical "would you advise going off the SSRI?", here are a few details. I was severely depressed and had an anxiety disorder from 2006-mid 2012. I've been well since June and am done with therapy. The only reason I'm still on the meds is because my doctor has a policy of keeping patients on them for at least a year.
Why do you allow your doctor to make your decisions for you? ...you value the doctor's guidance and he/she directs you to stay on meds...you stop valuing such guidance and you now have earned the merit to go off meds. Interesting...how that works. Or maybe I'm just an asshole...but that seems pathetic...I'd feel I was worthless if I couldn't make my own decisions. But many people are like this and if I admit that I look down on such things, they'd say I had too much pride and maybe I'm narcissistic. But I say it's just self-respect. Do you have self-respect? I bet you'll say you do and I wonder how you'll rationalize your doctor's role as necessary in making your own decisions about your life. But I don't know, just a guess from another creepy person on the internet.
I'm not sure whether I've brought this up, but while I'm generally doing well, I feel numb a lot of the time. So, even if I'm no less "myself" while on the medication than I am when sleep-deprived, I still don't feel quite like myself. It may just be that I need to switch medications, exercise more or change some other factor(s).
You sound like you expect a sense of normalcy. Do most people even get that? Then again, I'm sure if psychiatrists had their way, they'd medicate most of society. I think I'd rather have my eyelids removed and my skin peeled from body until the loss of blood induces cardiac arrest, than to give a psychiatrist power over my mental states.