Anti-depressants, or placebo tablets Options

[DavieBoy]

As most are aware, there has been a fare amount of media coverage this week to some quack telling everyone that anti-depressants aren't all they're cracked up to be. Some of the coverage I think has been a tad irresponsible, given that there are thousands of people in the community that are relying on their medication to keep them right and they have some newscaster/journalist with a big headline, spouting off that it does them no good and they'd be better taking sugar pills. I can imagine some of these poor souls coming off their medication and ending up with greater problems than they started with. In the first day of reporting the story, I cannot remember one newscaster/journalist saying at the end of their report/article, that those on medication should keep taking them until told otherwise by their Dr.

Anyway enough of the rant. I wonder how many Dr's actually give out the sugar pills. I think I would be a prime candidate for them if I ever suffered from depression. I'm one of these people, that if you tell me its good for me, I would believe it ( I'd be good with the hypnosis too, I know I'm open to suggestion ).

But what about the so called sick, the benefit cheats, who pretend to be ill to avoid working, and who when they get their medication prescribed (free of charge) to them, will sell it to those helpless creatures that are addicted to anything that blots out reality. Don't tell me that the Dr's don't know who these people are. Surely, the NHS would be able to save a small fortune in giving those ill deserving toe-rags the placebo pill (sorry back in rant mode again).

Oh, and do we believe that the power of the mind, can overcome these and other illnesses. I know they say that laughter is good for you, certainly works for ma wife

[penny dainty]

There are all different kinds of depression and mood disorders, some are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.I don't think a doctor should be giving out sugar pills without diagnosing the correct type of depression a patient may have and in many cases a phsycologist may have to make the call as GP's are not qualified in that field
I do think , like you Davie that people should not take themselves off medication just because they read something in the papers, as you say it could lead to a lot of problems for folk.
As for the dispicable creatures that sell their prescription drugs to others , hell mend them.

[lindamac]

Aye Davieboy yer topic certainly seems tae be firing on all cylenders here matey,the scientologists will be loving the news /medias take on the antidepressants at the minute heck they may even be behind it in some grave weird way what say you?anythings possable. Laughter is fabulous medicine as is crying too,pain killers are great if you have a headache or flu tabs to speed that viral flu away are also great ,Depression is a severe illness or a mild one that requires time, certain calmatives & patience to regain power of ones mind since it is fighting with it's own imbalance so why not have an antidepressant to speed up our healing of the mind too.?I agree no one oughta suddenly decide of their own accord to come off any drug without 1st being instructed to do so by their significant Drs etc I understand your upset at the low lives that drain the system however in amongst them are very real people with very real illnesses that require the drugs working or not so this is one of those topcs that may have a bottomless pit of ideals & solutions etc .

speaking as a person whom has truthfuly suffered a tested & proven to have suffered a chemical imbalance that required me to be on antidepressants for some 6months or so some yrs ago, I feel I qualify to say they have their uses in the medical world to assist folk in their bid to get well sooner rather than later.I have to inform you that they helped me to cope with the what at times seemed for me a deep & lonely & very despairing hopelessness that often provoked an unwarenteed worthlessness in my mind at times.

I walked through those times never feeling truly sure wether or not I was doing the right thing at the time but on hindsight I say yes thank God we have them since I responded so very well to such a treatment & found my way back to healthy thinking which was nigh impossable wilst in the midst of that time of imbalance without thaem antidepressants. sure theres a huge big lolly sugar popping debate where theres anything real doing good theres always an element where the human manipulates it for ill gotten gain or business/organised crime but Depression isn't at all an organised illness it is chaotic & throws one for a loop so I guess we have to take the good with the bad wherever we are for whatever reasons they throw out to us.

I say yes antidepressants have their place in the medical world & we are truly heading into a time of more mental illnesses than physical ones since the world seems to be coping very well with the wellbeing of the body we still have a very long walk towards making a dent in identafying many mental /brain illnesses that are robbing our children & aged alike every single day,things such as addadhd etc Ahlzeimers etc there has to be constant research ongoing to keep the check up on these drugs for the sanity of mankinds future as they live longer can we keep their minds longer & younger too? I don't like to sugarcoat anything as we all know theres pluses & minuses for everything you have said so Iam thinking antidepressants are a fact of our current living & they are here to stay wether they are sold of by fools or taken by needy people there are real results that they work.

sorry mate Iam ranting now hehehe however Iam interested in your topic however it is a broad loomed abyss of a topic that I feel will bring very mixed emotions from many & disinterest from others lets face it the church of Scientology is currently on the same band wagon at the moment where there trying to convince the world that antidepressants arent needed etc I disagree lets not go back to the days where we threw women into the mental institutions just becuse they were going through the menapause I would like to think that like everything else medical we can move onward & grow from strength to strength & find cures & medications that assists us to get there sooner rather than later,life is too short may as well be happy as well as healthy as we live longer lives.

[petalpeeps]

I myself was on Seroxat , for 11 years . I didn't even realise it was depression i had , went to the doc's and told her how i felt . She actually felt it went way back to the birth of our first daughter . At the time i suffered from post natal depression , my doctor then , who was also a woman , told me to go home and get on with it . After each of our children , it got worse , as didn't go back to doc about it , tried to struggle on .
At first i didn't want to touch the tablets , but after i started them slowly saw a change in my moods , not as uptight , had felt like a coiled spring . When doc weaned me off them , felt panicked , thought i wasn't going to cope . I still have some days when it all feels too much , but just got to kick myself in the backside , and get on with it .


Don't really kick my own backside , am no that talented