[zippity-dooda]

i took a'ds for 10 years. a whole conglamoration of them. i dont know what they did to me. mind and body. i feel ruined. nobody cared enough to tell me what these drugs can do to ya. i'm a human being and damn i'm an american. how can they do this to people. well anybody else experience this with these drugs. i dont even feel human anymore. i have no drive and i dont care.the doctors did this to me. do they not care ?

[still_crazy]

i was destroyed by psychiatry before my "recovery." there is hope for restoration and recovery...

the shrinks aren't helpful. docs in general weren't helpful to me, but shrinks were the worst. My faith helped me thru, but not everyone believes (of course...). counselors weren't great, either.

you are definitely human. where there's life, there's hope. im out of the pit...moving closer to full restoration+recovery...

so, i definitely think there's hope for you, too. keep in mind; i had heavy, involuntary shock treatments at a young age, no after care. this just in...

they generally don't care, unless you have status and/or $$$. im learning to focus on real friends who really care...

and lots of vitamins. LOL. :-)

[sarahsweets]

Originally Posted by zippity-dooda

i took a'ds for 10 years. a whole conglamoration of them. i dont know what they did to me. mind and body. i feel ruined. nobody cared enough to tell me what these drugs can do to ya. i'm a human being and damn i'm an american. how can they do this to people. well anybody else experience this with these drugs. i dont even feel human anymore. i have no drive and i dont care.the doctors did this to me. do they not care ?

I have been on a consistent prescribed dose of adderall for nearly 15 years and have looked at them as a life saver. They literally saved me. I take it as prescribed and do not abuse them. I am comfortable in saying i am dependent on them in the sense that my life is chaos and unstructured crap unmedicated. But physically I have taken days off, been too lazy to pick up my script or simply forgotten to take them and have been lucky enough to not physically realize it. Not everyone is like this. I know the people who got addicted to oxy are saying the same thing as you at this point.

[Paracelsus]

ok so being in america is great if you know where the resources are. most often financial freedom opens many doors, but you can access almost the same care with a budget.

first of all. you need to do the research yourself. look at the classes of drugs and the add on meds. know what they're used for. this helps you be an advocate for yourself. pdocs are human and they want to help and they follow the state's interest. the state basically is in bed with big pharma. no advances made in psychopharmacology because we havnt invested in building better research tools. people are buying the drugs so why innovate. luckily finding the right combo can buy you some time, re asses find something else and buy some more time. keep studying and doing self improvement.

it's a sick world but also there's a real purpose to life and some of the greatest people have mental illness. you can do it.

[-jimi-]

Also damaged for life but not an American. I still researched the meds myself, even in the pre Internet era, and I came to the conclusion that the one I was on, Zoloft, would mess up my brain. Still I kept taking it because I needed it. It's hard to really blame anyone here. It's between two evils.

These days I get by on a low dose on another SSRI. I do alright.