Anonymous Prescription Behavior Drugs Poll Options

[cupcake]

You can embellish if you wish, but anonymous is cool to keep it as honest as possible.

Basically have you ever taken zanex, prozac, valium, ridalin, etc...prescribed by a doctor, for the intent of altering mood, relieving anxiety, helpping depression, etc.

You know the kind of drugs I'm talking about. NOT hydrocodone, which CAN alter your disposition, but whose purpose is pain relief.

Just curious. Thanks.

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Nov 17 2006, 03:59 PM

[zetec]

Acutane -- Never ever *EVER* go on this shit.

Basically, acne causes depression, right? So you are supposed to take acne medicine to be cured of depression ultimatley right? Ok well acutane cures acne within 6 months, however, it also makes you fucking fucked up depressed in the head you don't even realize how fucked up you truly were from it till 3 years after you've been off of it. At least that's pretty much what happened to me. *NEVER* go on this shit.

With that said, at one point I tried Paxil and then Zoloft, and all it did was turn me into a zombie, *BUT*, actually being "one of those people" who was weak enough to take that shit made me finally pull my fucking head out of my ass and stop being such a fucking loser and get back on the right track in life and it made me realize that I didn't need those drugs at all I just needed to pull my head out of my ass.

So maybe indirectly they worked I dunno

yeah, i've heard some real horror stories about acutane

as far as antidepressants, i tried paxil for a short while back when i was waaay young, but was moved to wellbutrin. i've been thinking about going back on wellbutrin as of late to help me quit smoking. (Wellbutrin is also marketed as Zyban, the anti-smoking med.) I still have an active Addy prescription that I really don't take unless i need to pull an all nighter or get into serious study mode (it's only 10mg non-time released, and i usually only take half of one). I've also taken ritalin, was moved to some drug i don't remember because of a bad reaction (tick) to ritalin, that drug worked great, but i was moved off of that because kids started randomly dying (pfft whatever) to dexadrine, moved from that because of some shites along the same lines to adderall. If i decide to go on steady medication again (haven't been since i was i think 14) I'm probably going to ask for concerta, a non-amphetamine based ADD med (my sister takes it).


never really believed in medicating myself, but i can understand it now.