Prozac

Anyone here been on it? Or rather will admit to being on it.

Care to share your experiences?

Sex works better!

I know someone on the highest dosage allowed. She laughs all day at any and everything. It's kind of cute until you realize that the alternative was her crying at any and everything. Then its sad.

Depression is real. I use to think it was an attention seeking tactic. Try exercise.

Posted by Nala13
I know someone on the highest dosage allowed. She laughs all day at any and everything. It's kind of cute until you realize that the alternative was her crying at any and everything. Then its sad.

Depression is real. I use to think it was an attention seeking tactic. Try exercise.

+1

plenty of people i know in real life didnt understand why others got depressed, and thought the same thing. that it was for attention, and it isn't. Then they "caught" it too, because something happened in their lives, possibly deaths in the family, life changes, many suffer over job loss, ect, feeling as if you are not good enough ever, ect. When it happens to them, they could not believe it and it opened their eyes, and opened their compassion to others who have it.

Posted by geminicandIe
I understand that depression is chemical imbalance but I think we can fix it by fixing certain beliefs and thoughts which lead to these episodes. It is a "plague" of modern society.

If only it were that easy....although I do get what you are saying I think a lot of people band it about willy nilly these days.

Posted by starlover
pills, booze, sex are just a quick fix

depression needs to be healed and to get to the root cause of it can take a while

i believe it is anger suppressed and turned inwards. what helped me was therapy, healing, lots of it

🙂

+1 on some sort of therapy/counselling

Posted by lisabethur8

Posted by Nala13
I know someone on the highest dosage allowed. She laughs all day at any and everything. It's kind of cute until you realize that the alternative was her crying at any and everything. Then its sad.

Depression is real. I use to think it was an attention seeking tactic. Try exercise.

+1

plenty of people i know in real life didnt understand why others got depressed, and thought the same thing. that it was for attention, and it isn't. Then they "caught" it too, because something happened in their lives, possibly deaths in the family, life changes, many suffer over job loss, ect, feeling as if you are not good enough ever, ect. When it happens to them, they could not believe it and it opened their eyes, and opened their compassion to others who have it.

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Exactly. Grief particularly can overwhelm you to the point you just feel empty. I know.

Anyway the reason I asked is because my best friend has been prescribed antidepressants (we are both grieving the loss of a close friend - it will be one year next month) as she is not coping too well. I don't think it's prozac but something stronger - she told me but I can't remember the name. She's somewhat reluctant to start taking them though.

Posted by MissPirate

Posted by lisabethur8

Posted by Nala13
I know someone on the highest dosage allowed. She laughs all day at any and everything. It's kind of cute until you realize that the alternative was her crying at any and everything. Then its sad.
Depression is real. I use to think it was an attention seeking tactic. Try exercise.

+1
plenty of people i know in real life didnt understand why others got depressed, and thought the same thing. that it was for attention, and it isn't. Then they "caught" it too, because something happened in their lives, possibly deaths in the family, life changes, many suffer over job loss, ect, feeling as if you are not good enough ever, ect. When it happens to them, they could not believe it and it opened their eyes, and opened their compassion to others who have it.

Exactly. Grief particularly can overwhelm you to the point you just feel empty. I know.

Anyway the reason I asked is because my best friend has been prescribed antidepressants (we are both grieving the loss of a close friend - it will be one year next month) as she is not coping too well. I don't think it's prozac but something stronger - she told me but I can't remember the name. She's somewhat reluctant to start taking them though.

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i wonder if taking antidepressants really help those individuals, i haven't even looked into it, but i'm guessing it does. There are people who lose their career, their wife, their children, all in one go, as if their entire lives just dropped and they can't take it. Thus, why they have real life stories of people going into their jobs (mostly postal) and killing fellow employees, ect. I have no idea about that, but i read a bit that they go insane. the pressure is too much and they can't take it anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_rage

"Health and well-being
Workplace aggression can have devastating effects on an organization's employees.[5] For example, it has been found that targets of workplace aggression report lower levels of well-being.[5] Other studies have shown that aggression in the workplace can cause the victims of such behaviors to suffer from health problems.[16] Bjorkqvist, Osterman, and Hjelt-Back even found that targets exhibited symptoms similar to those of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such as anxiety and depression.[6] Sorensen et al. found possible associations between harassment at work and well-being measures of lower back pain and sleep deficiency among a sample of hospital workers.[17]"