Right now my meds seem to be failing me to some degree. I have tried to analyze it and have considered that perhaps I really expect meds to put me in a sort of Stepford wife zone. Do I just want to be mellow and happy all the time?

I really don't think that is it, that I expect nirvana from the drugs, but I am not sure. Most defintely much of the time I have a tendency to want to be all things to all people, and I wonder if I think the meds are failing when I find myself unable to be Superwoman.

I wonder if for me. stress precipitates changes in how the meds work for me, or do I eventually just develop a tolerance to whatever meds I am on and need to increase the dosages.

I believe at this time the pharmaceutical industry is still quite emphatic that these meds--psychotropics and antidepressants are nonaddictive(I do not include the ADD stimulant drugs or the benzodiazepines when I question whether antidepressants and other psychotropics are addictive. Stimulants and benzodiazepines are addicting to some degree.)

Anyway does anyone else feel that perhaps antidepressants and other psychotropics are addicting? This was a big part of the thesis of Peter Breggin's book "Toxic Psychiatry" where he found people went off their antidepressants and then went right back on because they felt they had relapsed. His counterargument was that people were actually undergoing withdrawal from the antidepressants and mistook these withdrawal symptom for the return of their depression.

I would appreciate any comments or opinions

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