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Trying to beat my depression/anxiety n self harming without medication?
what are peoples views?
so far ive had fluoxetine with no positive effect and sertraline which i reacted very badly to. Am currently letting my system clear from side effects of sertraline and am due to start citropram on tuesday but im thinking of refusing any more meds.
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sue34151 anna42310
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good luck
sue
wale37430 anna42310
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Although medications for depressions may not actually cure your depressive episodes, they can be really helpful to you in your short-term coping and functioning - as they form a psychic screen between you and your problems (life chanlenges or negative or intrusive thoughts) - so that you will not be able to respond fully to those problems as you could have done without medications. That could explain why you aremore likely to self-harm when you are off medications.
Having said that, medications are not meant to be used for too long (although this seems to be the case in our societiurs today). So I suggest you seek the help of a good psychotherapist. I feel you'll benefit more from psychotherapy than from ordinary counselling.
This should create a long-tern solution that will set you up for a good future regarding your emotional and psychological well-being.
anna42310
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Im just sick of trying different meds in the hope they will help.
boing333 anna42310
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What it takes is a degree of inner strength and determination, and awareness that the symptoms of depression will always be there; but through applying inner strength and determination in the withdrawal phase, you find that becoming self-reliant has given you enough skills to be able to sense (and avoid) the typical routines that lead to you feeling depressed.
What you're doing now is tough work. Seriously tough. I had 3 hours sleep in a single month when I was coming off mirtazapine but always kept my sight on the light at the end of it all, and I got through it. It was the greatest thing I had ever achieved in my life up to that point, coming off the medication.
If you need any tips or if you'd like to talk whilst coming off it, or need a distraction, feel free to send a message.
katy01052 anna42310
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boing333 kat50
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I'm convinced that a lot of people who experience depression suffer from a form of grief related to a lot of sociological and cultural shifts we've been forced to make but aren't what we've naturally evolved to become. Proof of that is in the fact that more people now than ever are diagnosed with depression; it's not about 'increased awareness' or the fact that 'depression didn't exist before; we just got on with it' – it's about the fact that we are simply reacting, naturally, to a cultural shift that is opposite to our being.
In this day and age, in our culture, most people are either worker ants or not, consumers working for whatever reason until we reach the age of retirement, and then just die, and if you start becoming self-aware of this, it can be immensely depressing to look at yourself, years before your planned retirement and say, “who am I?” and not be able to provide an answer.
Lifestyle changes, investing time in hobbies, doing things, being creative – that's what humans are good at. When we lack that, we have nothing. When we sense we have nothing, we become depressed.
Create something for yourself to prevent the depression.
katy01052 boing333
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boing333 katy01052
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When you look at society, you quite rightly question "what is normal?" - this is a defensive mechanism that you put in place to reassure yourself that nothing is wrong with you.
And you know what? You're absolutely right. 100%. There is nothing wrong with you. How you look, how you act, how you dress, what hobbies you have, whether you have different political views to other people, whether you have different religious beliefs, whether you want children or don't... there is nothing wrong with you. It's everybody else and how they make you feel because they are part of a society where the desire, more than anything, is to 'fit in' and 'belong'.
People feel depressed because they don't fit in or belong but the reality is, nothing is wrong with them, it's just down to other people to allow them the space to belong in the same world as them but just in an emotionally different place.