How Do You Know Your Taking Enough Antidepressant Medication?
Question by Jenn: How do you know your taking enough antidepressant medication?
I obviosly have depression and I have been on a good medication for a few months. It has been working and I feel a LOT better. However, I have begun to feel a little worse and slightly depressed again recently for no reason. Should I boost my meds (talking to my phyciatrist first)?
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Answer by Jan N
This phenomenon is also covered in following document.
This document is going to answer your question more deeply than I could ever do it here.
There is a new document for public (free to watch on-line) from a non-profit organization that covers almost all questions one may have regarding antidepressants. It features psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, nurses, attorneys, pharmaceutical sales reps, journalists and people who actually were on psychiatric drugs and their stories.
It covers the history of psychiatry treatment and their drugs (surprisingly psychiatrists prescribed cocaine, heroin, LSD and other drugs as medicine in the past and one can see it).
Another part describes all tricks pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists use to get their drugs approved by FDA – conflict of interests, bribery, ghost-written studies, skewed tests and results and more.
Why people don’t often hear the truth on TV when media are grossing millions from pharmaceutical companies for ads.
How pharmaceutical companies hired PR agencies to market their drugs.
How pharmaceutical companies affect education of doctors turning them into drug dealers – is it still safe to talk to your doctor who has been “educated” by programs funded by drug companies?
How efficacious psych drugs are? How many cures there are?
Side effects and dangers. Why many people end up being on up to 9 drugs.
Dependency and addiction. It’s shocking to hear that it takes months and up to one year to get off just one psychiatric drug. Former drug abuser of both street and psychiatric drugs says it was more difficult to get off psych drugs than heroin. Hear about soldiers addicted to Zoloft.
What are the options? What one can do?
Free to watch on-line. Non profit, non-commercial website.
The Marketing of Madness
http://www.cchr.org/#/videos/marketing-of-madness-introduction
Answer by Positive Thinker
if you want you can listen my advise or stay depressed,and that’s how it goes. firstly through your tablets in the bin right away. secondly,think for a minute and define why you are depressed,what caused it,. Thirdly,you know your problem SO act contrary to that problem and make as a goal. Fourthly achieve that goal whatever it takes. And once you achieve that goal,make a new one. Stay all the time focused and make steps toward your goal every day. Just say to yourself,that from today you no longer gonna be depressed,but that thing whatever caused you to be depressed now it will help you to change that aria in your life for better,and it’s your number 1 goal in your life for now,to see it changed. Good luck! you can check out my blog http://www.thepowerofselftalkandpositivethinking.com I have a great ebook by Bob Proctor it’s free,just go and get that book,instant access.
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