PLEASE be conscious of what you are doing when you agree to take antidepressants! I have been on them for 25 years, not because I need them (but who knows?) but because I cannot get off them! I have tried to taper down sloly and I still cannot get rid of the last 5mg's or so. They screw up your brain's ability to make it's own neurotransmitters.
Don't get stuck on the antidepressant merry go round! Try natural remedies first. Excecise is a really good way to shrug off depression! If you need them, take them to be sure. They have been known to save lives when depression gets so bad you don't want to live anymore. But short of that, I say avoid them if you possibly can!

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thanks...you...
Kabin
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I have had problems with depression mostly from family problems and trying to get them to do what they should do for themselves. I don't like useing Pharmisuitical drugs but have found the Youngevity Products D-Stress and Womens Hormonal balancer keep me where I can not go into a crying ljag or get really angry.Tehir full of vitamin D and Natural herbs that help.

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The issue for me is that all "mental illness" is being treated as one disease. There are many types of serious depression and anxiety; however, we are just coming out of the ice age as a culture in terms of understanding the complexities of the mind. While there are abuses of medications, that does not mean we must discount the many people who have been literally saved from suicide by these medicines. That does not mean that if you have a mood swing people must run out to get drugs. Trust me, people who know what real depression/anxiety/etc. is would be grateful for a simple mood swing. I appreciate the recommendations of this article for general healthy living, but "eat right, exercise 5 times a week" is something that someone facing mental illness has heard and probably follows as much if not more than others. While I take as little as is necessary, medicine is what allows me to live a healthy and active lifestyle. It's not the mind-numbing, personality altering pill of teh past. We need to move on from our cultural naivity of mental illnesses.

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I too have been helped with the right mix of drugs and yes it did take years to find this right combo but without them i truly would be dead. Dont get me wrong i have had some side effects but they far and away are better than mood swinging and deep dark black depressions. My children now grown have their own issues and needs for psychotropics. It is genetic for sure and im all for medicating anyone who really needs it. Days and weeks of not washing, not eating and not giving a crap while i pulled the blanket up higher and higher around myself would never respond to "get it together or stop feeling sorry for yourself" these comments only served me to feel more guilty and hate myself more. Today im level on my moods, can hold down a job and act and react normally with people i am involved with, my meds- effexor,abilify, and seroquel. Thanks for listening, Carolyn

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I too have been helped with the right mix of drugs and yes it did take years to find this right combo but without them i truly would be dead. Dont get me wrong i have had some side effects but they far and away are better than mood swinging and deep dark black depressions. My children now grown have their own issues and needs for psychotropics. It is genetic for sure and im all for medicating anyone who really needs it. Days and weeks of not washing, not eating and not giving a crap while i pulled the blanket up higher and higher around myself would never respond to "get it together or stop feeling sorry for yourself" these comments only served me to feel more guilty and hate myself more. Today im level on my moods, can hold down a job and act and react normally with people i am involved with, my meds- effexor,abilify, and seroquel. Thanks for listening, Carolyn

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I am of the opinion that every mental illness can be explained and cured in time if you have a better understanding of the rules which govern our reality. People with mental illness are breaking these rules without even knowing that they exist and are thrust into a state of perpetual fear due to the negative stigma surrounding any different thought or emotional process. I suspect many of the children noticeably suffering from some thing or another are actually souls who have incarnated with an awareness of other or extra dimensions; we live in third most times, so they'd be experiencing and learning about human behavior from fourth and fifth densities as well as third. While there are many belief systems and religions available from which to choose our own truths some things remain near certainties as far as the rules to being spirit in human form in third density, dualistic, co-creational reality. Knowing the rules changes how you play the game. I speak from experience as a person diagnosed with mental illnesses and as a spiritually enlightened, awake, eternal, soul.

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**DON'T DO IT ALONE** without careful research & supervision! Getting off of some of these drugs can cause stroke, heart failure, even death! I was diagnosed with depression & anxiety disorder several years ago & put on medication for it. After dealing with the HORRIFIC side effects for 2 months, things finally seemed to level out. But every 2 years for 6 years, a doctor would increase my dose. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore...I wanted off! My life was begninning to fall apart. I consulted others who had gotten off of these meds in a natural manner & I tried it. It was a slow, horrible process full of side effects, but I did it! Two months later, I was completely off and feeling better than ever. I saved my marriage, my family & my life by ending this cycle. I have now been "drug free" for 3 years. It is the event in my life that caused me to turn to natural medicine & led to my desire to become a Certified Nutritionist.

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I'm sick of taking the high road. I've had to listen to numerous friends and acquaintances, and two of my bosses, tell me that my problems would disappear with proper diet and exercise. And I've gritted my teeth and I've been nice and I've been polite. After years of hearing that from people and being polite I used some phrasing that was objectionable to some people. Excuse me for not really caring. The issue involved is more important. This is dangerous misinformation that could cost somebody their life. MILD depressions and mood disorders, usually situational; fine, treat them however you want. But for some people rejecting medication could cost them their life, and that's what I object to in this article.

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Oh yes, and I'm proud to be a granola-crunching hippie. But, calling someone that to be demeaning after just complaining that you feel that you were insulted and demeaned only makes you as guilty as the person you accused. Lets try to take the high road, okay?

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