Anyone here not take meds?

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I'm sick of hearing people talk about psychiatric drugs as if its taking the easy way out. Taking psychotropic medication is like taking any other kind. If you had high blood pressure, you'd take meds for that wouldn't you? You may not need them, but you don't speak for everyone. Meds saved my life.

I'm sick of hearing people talk about psychiatric drugs as if its taking the easy way out. Taking psychotropic medication is like taking any other kind. If you had high blood pressure, you'd take meds for that wouldn't you? You may not need them, but you don't speak for everyone. Meds saved my life.

I was on meds for a short while. I stopped taking them because they made me more suicidal than not taking them. Then I guess I thought I'd find better ways to manage my depression, and I did.

Exactly. You aren't a stronger person for not going on meds and being a miserable jerk or self-medicating through alcohol. I absolutely need my meds, and without them, I'd be suicidal. Chemical depression shouldn't be taken lightly.

i don't like taking them but i currently take piracetam and a choline supplemen every other day. It is an excellent anxiolytic and a nootropic. it allows me to think my way out of anxiety and also just feel more in control. I am very happy with the results but i have some concerns over longterm use.

When I saw these two posts I went back through the thread because I thought I must have missed something. I don't think anyone is saying that medication is an easy way out or that they are not useful. There are lots of people on WP who do take medication and lots who don't - we're still friendly, there's no antagonism that I've seen between people who take them and people who don't. And it's not like there are strict camps. Sometimes people take them, sometimes they don't.

Also this: " You aren't a stronger person for not going on meds and being a miserable jerk or self-medicating through alcohol" is confusing. No one has said this in the thread. It also rests on the premise that if one doesn't take prescription medication that one does self medicate through other means. Like my earlier post said, doctors have tried to get me to take medication but I've been hesitant for a number of reasons - none of them being some delusion of superiority. I don't self medicate through alcohol or illegal drugs, either. Where did these ideas come from? I'm not trying to be difficult, they just seem a response to something I haven't seen stated or implied.

I don't think anyone here is attacking people who do take prescription drugs.

I'm not currently on any meds.

I take meds. I'm on Celexa and Seroquel.

Definitely not the easy way out if they work for you. But for me at least, I don't like the way they make me feel.

there are not many medications that i would be able to take if needed because my body does not to supply sufficient enzymes to remove them from my system in a timely manner.

Last edited by wornlight on 21 Nov 2010, 6:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

no, i don't want to get my brain and my heart hollowed out.

what dosage seroquel do you take? Do you get any amnesia?

(maybe off topic...sorry all)

The lowest one. 25mg I think. And no, I've never had any amnesia from it.

I take it you know that vitamins are not classed as medication?

I don't take them, but did try a couple of antidepressants as a teenager. I saw no benefit from them then, and instead ended up suicidal where I had previously just been depressed. I occasionally consider giving them another try, but I doubt I will unless I reach a point where I think I may do something foolish.

I have also taken alprazolam (Xanax) for anxiety a handful of times and keep a few on hand in case of "emergency." I have found it helps prevent shutdown/meltdown associated with sensory overload or extreme stress. When used in this way, I recommend it highly. I would never take it regularly, though, as it is highly addictive.

Really? I used to be anti-drugs, too, but then I took Tylenol for a really bad headache and I haven't gotten off it since.

I want to start trying psychiatric drugs, but I'm not ready to be officially diagnosed with mental health problems yet.