I'm sorry your addicted to it, Mountaindewed. Do you ever consider stopping to take it?
Getting addicted is part of my worries. I am prone to developing addictions, I think.
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Originally Posted by ThunderGoddess
I don't take medication. I have been on Seroquel before which I thought was somewhat helpful but the side effects were too much I needed 12+ hours of sleep just to function and when I took them I could barely walk so it made me very uncomfortable to be in that state. Sometimes I want to take meds again because life feels easier on them although I don't feel they are healthy for prolonged use so most of the time I think what's the point if it won't cure me and I don't want to be on them forever. My symptoms are mood swings, suicidal thoughts, paranoia, social isolation.
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Those sound like ugly side-effects. Is what they say, right? "Medication have effects, psychopharmaca have side-effects". I guess I might be pretty biased. And I agree with all you said, why take them, when they harm you but don't fix the underlying issue?
T says that the might help in cooperation with psychotherapy. Apparently, it's standard proceedure to treat a secondary issue with drugs, while treating a primary issue with therapy. That argument does kind of make sense to me, because if my primary issue goes away, perhaps my anxiety will drop at the same time. But then my primary issue isn't exactly going away in a week or a year or such.