Meds or not?

Ok, I have got to go back to my doctor next week for another chat about my depression (should have been this week, but I forgot to make the appointment). Anyway, it has been like 5 weeks since the last time, and I have been through the lowest and of cause some high (dunno why tho...). I didn't go back when I really was suffering, which was abt 2 weeks ago for some stupid reasons. And now, I feel more stable and calm, but the physical symptoms are still very annoying... and of cause, not being able to sleep properly is really bothering me.

I just dunno if I wanna go back or not, coz I know wht she would say, "do you wanna try some meds?" Which on one hand, I am tempting to, coz it's obviously a quick way to pull me back together. But on the other hand, I dun want it, coz I know it's not gonna be a week or 2 on meds, it's gonna be months, and I dunno if I want it or not...

Take it or not, my life is messed up, I have not done anything productive for more than a month... and my work is piling up... more and more pressure... god damn it...

Reply 1

hallowsfanatic

Meds are worth it if you believe they will work. I think much of it is in the mind as well. I am on about my 7th different medication, have been on them since I was 16 and I am now 21, and I have yet to find a magical cure.

Everyone is different though - and you should explore all your options if you believe it will make you feel better. Go and speak with the doctor, she will probs know what is best and heed any advice that she may give you.

Good luck with it!

Reply 2

threeisthemagicnumber

Meds aren't the magic fix-all that everyone believes them to be. Anti depressants are not happy pills. They will not effect the mood of anyone who isn't severely depressed. Yet doctors hand them out like candy it seems.

Anyway, my advice is this: if you can manage without, then do so. It is much better to overcome your depression through counselling and life style changes then through resorting to drugs. If I was a unipolar depressive, I would only take antidepressants if I was becoming suicidal. I perhaps have the views I do because I cannot take antidepressants as they make me manic (I am bipolar) so have had to overcome depression (and I mean severe, suicidal depression) through other means.

The other things you have to consider are the side effects. Weight gain and inability to orgasm are two that spring to mind, along with tiredness. I do not know how depressed you are, and if you're severely depressed then of course it's worth putting up with these things, but if you're not.....

And as a previous poster said, it can take a trial of a number of antidepressants before you can find one that works. And they can take weeks and weeks to work.

Anyway, listen to what your doctor says, but make your own mind up. Just don't expect meds to be an easy option, because they're not. Best of luck with everything.

Reply 3

Anonymous #1

OP

Actually, my doctor offered me the option of meds after abt 15 mins being in her office + me haivng a doubt abt having counselling. But of cause, I refused the meds coz I was only feel not quite right back then.

But now, after abt 5 weeks of holiday (just go tback to uni this week), all it did was made me feel worse and worse. And also now even when I feel fine, my body complains, and it all shows on my faces.

My problem is that I dun really have a problem that counselling can solove, at least I still have a doubt. Coz my problem is the workload and also having to deal with some super stupid and self-fish workmates who I cant tell them abt my depression for a very important reason. So what can counselling do abt it? And also, I cant even focus on work, I mean college work, as soon as I have started proper, let say an hour into in, I would start feeling very sick, and angry, worried etc. so I have to go home.

I just cant carry on like this anymore, it's really is not doing me any good.

Reply 4

RetiredAccount89

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Actually, my doctor offered me the option of meds after abt 15 mins being in her office + me haivng a doubt abt having counselling. But of cause, I refused the meds coz I was only feel not quite right back then.

But now, after abt 5 weeks of holiday (just go tback to uni this week), all it did was made me feel worse and worse. And also now even when I feel fine, my body complains, and it all shows on my faces.

My problem is that I dun really have a problem that counselling can solove, at least I still have a doubt. Coz my problem is the workload and also having to deal with some super stupid and self-fish workmates who I cant tell them abt my depression for a very important reason. So what can counselling do abt it? And also, I cant even focus on work, I mean college work, as soon as I have started proper, let say an hour into in, I would start feeling very sick, and angry, worried etc. so I have to go home.

I just cant carry on like this anymore, it's really is not doing me any good.

Hopelessness, Helplessness, and Worthlessness. THats the unholy triad of depression. Most people find themsleves feeling in one of these ways about their life situation or self at some point, but its a bit of a vicious cycle that can really trap you.
Medication can help in two ways. It can help give that extra push to break the cycle. Or it can simply mask the 'pain' as it were.

But you have to get off your bum and be proactive. Thats what counselling is about. Its not about you talking about your problems in a passive 'this is happening to me' way. its about increasingly reinforcing the idea that you are in control of your own life.

You have key problems here. Your job workload is excessive. you think your work'mates' are selfish and unsupportive - and that probably includes your boss. and as a consequence you can't do your college work to the standard you are like, all making you increasingly angry and upset.

So DO something about it. Make a formal complaint to your superior at work. Talk to them if you can, discuss your problems. if that is entirely impossible then look for another job.
Yes, all of these are a hassle, but in the long run don't you think it will be beneficial? This is the benefit of counselling. to present you with what are obvious answers to your problem, but to show you have to make that bit of effort to get the end reward.
Its not hopeless and you are not helpless.

Med ication can help you put these changes in your life. but if you passively take the pills to feel better about your situation you will basically still havea **** job working with jerks, but just be too 'doped up' to care.

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