It was just a prank bro

Prank or not, there's a lot of unnecessary misery and dysfunction on this sub.

Oh yeah! Well just to spite you I'm going to continue on my path of opiate addiction and crippling depression.

What do ya think about them beans? Mr.Bigshot

Where would this sub be without it?

Can you PM me a script for xanax?

No.

I can't afford my Paxil anymore :(

Sign up for Obamacare. With the subsidies you should be all set.

I tried but the options they gave me are not realistic for me at the moment. Went through a mental breakdown and lost my job...

Get Medicaid then. It's easier to get than Obamacare. There's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to get your meds.

I'll definitely look into it once I get a new job. Thanks man.

You can get on Medicaid before you get a new job.

In the meantime you should see if killing somebody shuts the voices up

Udont need a job for Medicaid dude

It's Medicaid, dummy. You don't need a job. That's like saying you'll look into welfare after you get a new job.

Hes right im on medicaid it rules

Ran away to The shittiest part of Mexico and wallowed in my own filth and depression until I had no where else to go and came back to Texas. Pretty sure a gun to my head is I my near future but I'm trying to stop

Just do it already

That would have been funny a few weeks ago but people from this sub are dropping like flies. Let's all keep our heads up boys 😁

Like who?

Is that the first season plot of EastBound and Down?

How about naltrexone? Do you know anything about that for curbing drinking? I've heard the generic is dirt cheap but doctors are hesitant to prescribe.

It all depends and I can't give specific medical advice without a formal exam, but there are multiple good pharmacological options for managing drinking and using habits.

Fair enough.

I can't afford my Paxil anymore :(

I've been dealing with untreated depression for almost fourteen years. It's part of who I am and I'm afraid that I won't recognize myself if I "get better." I'm pretty much resigned to never being able to reclaim myself after so long.

Boy do I sound like Queen Fag.

Hey we're all fags here bud, keep your head up high.

I hear this from young men in particular all the time and it's complete 100% bullshit. Medication will slightly adjust your baseline brain chemistry. It won't alter your deepest convictions or qualities as a person.

Put it this way: do you avoid things that make you feel good because "depression is part of your personality?" Do you go out of your way to eat food that tastes bad? Of course not.

What if taking meds intensifies my as-of-now marginal fantasy to have large groups of well-musceled strangeman, liberally abuse my mouth & throat?

Im a red blooded, straight man. I cant risk the deep descent into the bowels of unrestrained faggotry!!!

lolz

Vito?

Not to Conner contrarian but I'm prescribed lithium and I never take it anymore because it made me feel like a different person on top of the loss of sex drive and increase general anxiety.

Lithium isn't an antidepressant but I understand your point. There are alternatives to lithium though that avoid a lot of the most significant side effects. Keep in mind lithium is one of the oldest drugs we have in our arsenal.

Vito?

A friend just recently started Lexapro and the positive effects were nearly immediate, which was stunning, and she's still the same person she's always been. It gave me some tiny glimmer of hope before I remembered I was probably too far gone.

Fourteen years and it hasn't killed me yet. Well, if I can manage to overcome whatever internalized stigmas I carry, I'll try to force myself to call my doctor. I've never spoken about it openly and that's part of what makes it so daunting.

Alright I'll leave ya alone, but you're wasting your time being miserable for no fucking reason. Even if the medicines did change your fundamental row personality (and they won't), you can stop taking them whenever you want.

You're obviously curious about getting help or you wouldn't be posting in this thread. Schedule a doctor's appointment tomorrow!

Don't listen to this guy. I took meds for a couple months and started enjoying Opie Radio and sending him supportive tweets to him Sherrod and Vic. It turned me into a monster.

Stop acting like a faggot. Boom. Problem solved

I thought the same thing. I tried 4 different mood stabilizers before I found one that worked. I had pretty much given up then I found one that completely flipped my life around. You are right though it's really odd looking back at my old self

kill yourself faggot

Just change shit up. Fuck comfortable mediocrity

Way to let all the air out of the room.

Sorry. Let's get back to the Patton Oswald murder mysteries.

its not a mystery its been solved four different ways

'Some people' find SSRIs dont work, Trycyclics only work at an incapacitating dose, MAOIs are scary, except for Moclobemide which is one of the safest ADs, but docs still scared of MAOI thing. Tianeptine is excellent for some people with atypical depression, but not widely used. This is the UK situation where Benzo is a swear word, & sleep meds only available for 2weeks. All unless you've got celeb-tier money. Riddle me that please, while I continue with booze & horse. Thanks anyway

Were you depressed before you began drinking and using?

I would say anything I drink or use is only self-medicating anxiety and/or depression, & although there are sustainability issues with these, seems the best way to at least function.

I understand, but if you're saying all of these antidepressants don't work for you, it's possible that it's because you're flooding your system with depressants at the same time. Or the booze and drugs can be a direct cause of the depression itself. Things to consider.

Thanks for the consideration, but I've been full circle, meaning all the things I've mentioned have been tried at a time of complete sobriety. The Tianeptine / Moclobemide I mentioned have actually worked, but were from a private doc (ie expensive cash). Nice to have a sensible chat occasionally, & this forum does seem to be an outlet for at least a few depressed people.

So if you've found a medicine combination that works for you, we've established the principle that medications can help depressed people in general and you in particular. I'm not familiar with the UK system, but I'm confident if you are a psychiatrist and give him the run down on what had worked and what hasn't, similar alternatives can achieve the same relief.

this guy definitely wants to control your mind with his corporate shill pills, stay on the heroin

At the Suboxone doctor I go to you aren't allowed to drink, so I cant even tell them that most of my problems come from being an alcoholic, where's the treatment there? HUH, pal?

Schedule an appointment with another doctor not associated with the sub clinic.

Can you be like the Dr. Steve of this sub?

Wtf are you talking about. I got subs super easy and they knew i drank shot dope and did cocaine. Get another doctor

They dont piss test you? Even the scummier sub places around like Utica I know of they give people a lot of second chances but they at least want them to attempt to not shoot dope and shit anymore if theyre gonna prescribe them subs

I've been plagued with suicidal thoughts and crippling depression for as long as I can remember. I honestly will kill myself most likely. Are pills really going to help? I don't think any of that is going to cure what neglect and sexual abuse did.

Medications work wonders for a lot people. Therapy is extremely effective as well, especially if there is underlying trauma. Studies have show that medications + therapy combined have a synergistic effect and that the combination of the two is the most effective strategy.

The worst thing that can happen is you give treatment a try and you find that it doesn't help you a whole lot. Then you're in exactly the same spot you're in right now.

Pills will help, but only if you coat your stomach with milk and then take 100's of them, 1 every 5 minutes to ensure you don't accidentally throw them up

Nothing works here. The medications don't work. I hate this place!

It's like I'm walking on sunshine!

been here sevin yaaaars

I don't believe you're a psychiatrist and what are these options that will make our heads spin? Other than the old hit or miss options of SSRI's, Benzos, anti-psychotics, and talk therapy?

electroshock fag execution therapy

I'm the highest functioning alcoholic you've ever met. But damn am I getting sick of looking like Steve Bannon. I've put on 40 pounds in five years, I have these weird rashes and edema. My skin just looks like hell.

There's a subreddit for "before" and "after" drinking, and the people that stop drinking seem to lose a ton of weight and their skin gets better.

So I took today off. Unless you count that drink in the morning. That doesn't count does it?!

this guy just wants you to buy his corporate sugar pills and reassign your gender, keep drinking

(((being healthy)))

Have you heard about the drug naltrexone? I think it was developed for opiate addicts, to quell the cravings, but it works better for alcohol, I'm told. Doctors can charge insurance companies an arm and a leg for a monthly injection, but there's a daily generic pill that's like 8 bucks a month. Anecdotally, a highly functioning, successful friend first told me about it. He was like you describe, highly functional for awhile with the boozing, but hit an age where it was starting to really show its ravages and he became more concerned about his health. It's somewhat controversial because it allows previously raging drunks to have 4 drinks during the week, then 4-6 over the weekend, aka chemically imposed moderation, with few side effects, as opposed to the AA/12 Step model for alcoholics. At the very least, it seems like a rational middle ground toward abstinence for the drunks among us, and an interesting story about how certain drugs don't get their day due to politics.

Yep. I've tried to purchase it in Tijuana. Unfortunately, no one seems to stock it.

The thing that's funny is that I've never really had difficulty kicking ANY addiction. I smoked for about a decade, then kicked it with virtually zero effort. I literally went on vacation, didn't bring my cigarettes, and after four days without a cigarette I didn't feel the need to ever have one again.

I don't have any DUIs, or anything like that. I've just reached a point where it takes a LOT of booze to catch a buzz, and that's a lot of calories. Half a bottle of vodka has more calories than a Big Mac. I have no idea how those skinny British musicians were able to consume two thousand calories of booze everyday. Maybe cocaine? (I don't do drugs. Not a moral judgment, just don't want to run afoul of a drug test.)

sounds like bullshit and I know you stated you are a pussy, but smoking pot, using or edibles or vaping/dabs or whatever they do these days, every night for about 2 or 3 weeks after stopping does magic for the psychological aspect of quitting cold turkey

Skinny alcoholics don't eat a whole lot. My friend recently dropped 20 pounds in a couple weeks by hardly eating and just drinking booze. It really runs your organs ragged.

Go on a keto diet. When you are low carb, you arent hungry at all. And you get drunk off 1 beer.

It sounds like solid logic, but when I was deep in keto a few years I still drank the same amount, not realizing until the next day how crazy drunk I had gotten.

I was told by a doc you aren't suppose to drink at all on that. Been pitching me on it fir months but Im almost off the shut ges already prescribing and dont want to wirry about coming off something else.

Drinking before noon technically counts as yesterday, so you're good.

Stick to bloody Cesar's or Mary's in the morning and you will be all set. Don't worry, I am a doctor too.

If you're such a shrink then you have a lot of growing up to do

Is there a way to get depression meds without actually going to a psychologist? I really don't want to talk to a fucking shrink.

I don't know if they sell SSRIs on the deep web...

Psychology is a jewish trick

Shapeshifters as well.

If you really are a shrink then stop prescribing SSRIs you fucking faggot. They are dangerous and based on faulty science and manipulative medical literate. You probably have blood on your hands. Also this thread is terrible. Also kill yourself.

Jews control the medication industry

I'm resistant to the drugs. Tried tons of them and they only made things worse. Minimal side effects? What a fucking joke. Akathisia, suicidal thoughts, "brain zaps", withdrawal. Won't turn you into zombie? Clearly a shrink that hasn't tried his own medicine. Take seroquel for a few weeks, and tell me your personality hasn't changed. The "chemical imbalance" theory is a sham, and psychiatry is a pseudo-science. If these drugs fix a chemical imbalance, show me a model for a chemically balanced brain. Oops, doesn't exist. Fuck off, quack.

BRAVO! I was too zonked last night to write that

Is a rope one of the cures?

Stop telling me what to do you fucking communist

You never mind. I intend on drinking enough natty ice to sail the seas with Lady Di and I don't want to hear another word from you nosey Rosie shrinks.

I appreciate you family. Im new to doctors because i got medicaid summer last year. But thanks for what you guts do

Shut the fuck up retard. I like funny stuff being on this subreddit. Treated depressed people make the opposite of comedy: they make LA comedy.

I've been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and social anxiety in the past and they've always been with me. I was on prozac back in 2010 to the end of 2011 but got off of it because I wanted to drink, even though the prozac helped I think. I was also smoking a lot of weed around that time so that may have been what was doing the wonders.

Anyway, I don't smoke weed anymore and my drinking habits have shrunk pretty good since 2015 so I'm thinking of calling the guidance center the next town over to get an appt to get back on it. They're like psychiatrists-in-training so it's a ton cheaper(like 20$ a visit) and they can prescribe meds.

PhD psych research, and your are very wrong indeed.

I think you are a social worker based off this comment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398979/

Other findings show that at least some SSRIs can produce more subtle changes in social behavior in healthy volunteers. For example, some SSRIs seem to make subjects more cooperative and less critical of others (Knutson et al. 1998). They also seem to increase social affiliative behavior (Tse and Bond 2002, 2003). Tse and Bond (2002) had subjects play the Dictator game—a game in which a ‘dictator’ decides how a certain sum of money is to be divided between the dictator and another participant—and found that subjects administered the SSRI citalopram divided the sum more fairly than controls. Conversely, depletion of tryptophan—a serotonin precursor—leads to lower rates of cooperation in the Prisoner’s dilemma game (Wood et al. 2006). The effect was only evident for subjects with depleted tryptophan in the first round of interaction, suggesting that adequate serotonin is needed only for establishing a cooperative pattern of response, not for maintaining it.

Further experiments suggest that SSRIs also influence other fairness-related behavior. In the Ultimatum game, one player, the proposer, decides how a sum of money shall be split between the proposer and another player. The second player can either accept the offer and take the amount the proposer has offered, or reject it, in which case neither player gets anything. Normal subjects typically reject offers they regard as unfair, despite the fact that rejection decreases their payoff (in a one-shot game), although what is regarded as unfair can differ from culture to culture (Oosterbeek et al. 2004). Crockett et al. (2008) found that depletion of tryptophan led to increased rates of rejection of unfair offers relative to controls. This suggests that SSRIs may have the contrary effect, thereby making subjects easier to exploit by modulating their assessment of what counts as unfair.

GO SEE A DOCTOR. Or better yet, GO SEE RICH VOS who will be appearing April 19th and 20th at the Newark Chuckle Hut.

You're a professional shrink? I bet you're very small if you shrink for a living, right fellas?

How do you get off subs without feeling like a worthless piece of shit... I literally take the smallest crumb of it yet when i don't take it I don't want to get up in the morning.

Fistula here. Sometimes the body wants you to die and tries to kill you more than twice.

/u/colby_the_dog I have two questions- I'm on Lexapro for depression and anxiety and Ritalin extrnddd release for ADHD, have. Even for about 6 years now.. 1 pill lasts me 7 hours, and I feel like it's not enough. How would you recommend I get upped to two pills a day so it'll last me 14 hours instead? I'm not an addict or recreational user, but I don't want my doctor to think I am.

1. Any idea how I'd go about getting a TRT script? A doctor 4 years ago said my levels were normal but I feel I have very low test.

Im addicted to addiction treatment pills..

Side effects are minimal? hahaha fake shill.

Kill yourself faggot

Question: I know somebody who isn't depressed but I want then to be, how do I make them depressed?

What's the deal with Oval teens.

Just do it already

Is that the first season plot of EastBound and Down?

Like who?