Candid wrote:This is the trouble with head drugs. You can pick people on the street who've been taking them for years: great flabby bodies and expressionless faces. If you're feeling anxious and depressed about that -- and who wouldn't be? -- it has to be asked whether the cure is worse than the complaint.
Now you're looking to introduce another factor to obviate the side-effects. You're convincing yourself something has to come from the outside to make life okay.
I think it's worth having a discussion with your GP about gradual reduction of your medication, at the same time asking him or her to refer you for some kind of talk therapy. It isn't normal to 'need' pills to deal with life.
First-world diet in the 21st century has a lot to answer for when it comes to mental health. Our ancestors weren't taking fistfuls of pills, they were just getting on with it. The astronomical rise in pill-popping is down to an unscrupulous pharmaceutical industry taking advantage of vulnerable people who are easily convinced they need pills.
Taking charge of your own life and dietary intake is an immediate confidence-booster.
Currently, that's my game plan right now. We are working on adjusting the medication so I taek what I need but at the same time, this weight gain side effect is as minimal as possible. It's nice to hear this again from you though knowing that what my psychiatrist said was the exact same thing so thank you so much for that.
Candid wrote:This is the trouble with head drugs. You can pick people on the street who've been taking them for years: great flabby bodies and expressionless faces. If you're feeling anxious and depressed about that -- and who wouldn't be? -- it has to be asked whether the cure is worse than the complaint.
Now you're looking to introduce another factor to obviate the side-effects. You're convincing yourself something has to come from the outside to make life okay.
I think it's worth having a discussion with your GP about gradual reduction of your medication, at the same time asking him or her to refer you for some kind of talk therapy. It isn't normal to 'need' pills to deal with life.
First-world diet in the 21st century has a lot to answer for when it comes to mental health. Our ancestors weren't taking fistfuls of pills, they were just getting on with it. The astronomical rise in pill-popping is down to an unscrupulous pharmaceutical industry taking advantage of vulnerable people who are easily convinced they need pills.
Taking charge of your own life and dietary intake is an immediate confidence-booster.
Yeah I have been attempting to do that. I guess that's the route I must continue to do. Thank you so much. I thought i'd post on here anyways in case there's something I haven't thought of before, but I guess that was all in my head this time haha.