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"Been through bad time lately with suffering with this. Dark thoughts as well. I know some posters on here suffer with this. Anyone come through the other side of this shit?

"A number of posters have been yellow carded and told to stay off this thread unless they have anything constructive to add.This is a thread that has been very useful to so many, for any other posters with scores to settle, argue on another thread. This thread is sacrosant.Thank you"

"Basically the world has changed faster than our brains have evolved. We are now bombarded with too much stimulus and information. Lack of god and religion is a factor. Plus I’m certain that the physical act of using a smart phone is bad for our brains, see my first point"

"Block 6:45 Tue Jan 14 Re: Anxiety/depression 'I think a lot of it is the mind playing tricks on you, some probably don't need the tablets however because they take something they automatically feel better, but in reality they could be taking a placebo and would still have the same effect.' Absolutely! One of the key tests any new product has to pass is that it is proven clinically more effective than placebo in a blind trial. Many senior drug company execs await the results of those sort of trials nervously in case they are about to have wasted millions of pounds of research into something that's no better than placebo."

"In India , every drug is available over the counter from paracetamol to pharmaceutical heroin . Those puffers I use for asthma are £1.30 and viagria are 40p each Who wants what?"

"In India , every drug is available over the counter from paracetamol to pharmaceutical heroin . Those puffers I use for asthma are £1.30 and viagria are 40p each Who wants what?"

BRANDED is too thick to be depressed.

I was hoping picks and cabbage would jump in with quips. Anyway. It’s all makes sense now

*who is

"""quick pole"" AG! Surprising that someone who so fantastic in world business and thinks so highly of themselves could make such a simple spelling mistake. Ewa SWOBODA"

"Yes, I'm on Setraline as I mentioned earlier. Bungo 6:40 Tue Jan 14 I think a lot of it is the mind playing tricks on you, some probably don't need the tablets however because they take something they automatically feel better, but in reality they could be taking a placebo and would still have the same effect."

QUICK POLE Robert KUBICA

In not on.

BRANDED 6:40 Tue Jan 14 Me? Yes.

*on obvs

Are you in drugs?

"Block 6:33 Tue Jan 14 Absolutely. I do think that sometimes people are ready to accept or not accept different treatments at different times, or sometimes knock them on the head too quickly after an early side effect."

"Branded, just because people have depression doesn't mean they are ""depressed"" every day. It changes from day to day, Yesterday all I wanted to do was hide away and sleep, today I feel absolutely fantastic."

quick pole How many fucking depressives do we have on here? Fuck me

"Bungo, My aunt and step mum have both been on Citalopram and Setraline and found the former to be really, really bad in terms of side effects but nothing at all with Setraline. I guess bodies react differently to different chemicals."

"I always find it interesting to hear different people's experiences on different drugs. On paper citalopram, sertraline, paroxetine, fluoxetine, mirtazapine etc have very little between them. They are all off generic now, but when they were actively promoted, drug companies usually found it very hard to find anything to say about their own product that separated it from the competition. Only thing I would say, is try to stick with any new treatment you are prescribed for as long as you can. Side effects are often at their worst when you first start taking something, and usually diminish as your body gets used to the drug."

"Bolty, I can drink on mine as well, I don't drink as much nowadays though"

"Same here, I have drunk on setraline and never had any real issues, drugs on the other hand...."

"Block 6:06 Tue Jan 14 Can't remember, but I binned them within a few days. Sertraline took a week or two to work but without any of the side effects Citalopram gave me."

"All this bickering probably just highlights the misunderstanding across the board between being depressed and depression. Like Joe, I ""ran away"" from a marriage that had sucked all that was ""me"" out of me. I had & have a wide range of interests, so had no real worries about giving stuff I loved doing up - it wasn't even ""big"" stuff - I used to enjoy having music on whilst at home and pottering about, but even that got whittled down to an ""approved list "" of artists. It was all give on my part. One day, on the way to work, all the ducks lined up in my mind; I had nothing more to give (up). I am sure it wasn't depression, clinical or otherwise, but the marriage had to end and I was pretty fed up that I couldn't see a way of making it work. I was ""on automatic pilot"" for several weeks, still looking for an opening, a path through, but nothing. There was great peer pressure to ""front it out"", meetings with these people, meetings with those people; nothing gave me any glimmer of hope, so what benefit is that in a house with 3 young kids? Then, of course, the fireworks started. The human, and apparently limitless, ATM I had morphed into suddenly stopped working... ...3 years later, it all turned around, she abandoned our kids and I put the family back together; it was a struggle, but seemed to work out this time. The ""Man up, one size fits all"" solution only exists in the minds of simpletons. You know who you are."

"As far as drugs go, you sometimes have to make hard decisions. This is about friends of ours, in fact, my wife's roommates when I married her. He went to university for engineering at the same time I was there and I dated his wife briefly then, before they became a couple. Having that degree in the booming city we lived in, he had a great job and they just had their first (and only for later reasons) kid. A few years after we had move from that city, he found himself on bridge ready to throw himself off. Thankfully he had enough clear-headedness remaining get himself back home and eventually get help. I met him a few years later as her mom and mine live in the same small town and he was a completely different person. First thing he said, out of the blue, when I said hi was some obscure question about the new Star Wars. It was a bit tough to see but she still has a husband and his son still has a father. This is not a joke, I guess would be the gist of that."

"As far as drugs go, you sometimes have to make hard decisions. This is about friends of ours, in fact, my wife's roommates when I married her. He went to university for engineering at the same time I was there and I dated his wife briefly then, before they became a couple. Having that degree in the booming city we lived in, he had a great job and they just had their first (and only for later reasons) kid. A few years after we had move from that city, he found himself on bridge ready to throw himself off. Thankfully he had enough clear-headedness remaining get himself back home and eventually get help. I met him a few years later as her mom and mine live in the same small town and he was a completely different person. First thing he said, out of the blue, when I said hi was some obscure question about the new Star Wars. It was a bit tough to see but she still has a husband and his son still has a father. This is not a joke, I guess would be the gist of that."