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Recently a friend tells me that my former roommate has just gotten on anti-depressants. Apparently, ever since she began taking these pills she shops constantly. When I lived with her she was not a shopaholic. She always enjoyed clothes, and has great style, but she was not obsessively shopping.
Anyone else seen this correlation in their 3d experiences?
Recently a friend tells me that my former roommate has just gotten on anti-depressants. Apparently, ever since she began taking these pills she shops constantly. When I lived with her she was not a shopaholic. She always enjoyed clothes, and has great style, but she was not obsessively shopping.
Anyone else seen this correlation in their 3d experiences?
Not in regards to shopping, no, but I have encountered quite a few people at various jobs who were on Prozak, and various other psych meds, or who had been on them at one point. One girl I spoke with at a job in Florida, (age 22 I believe) told me she couldn't function without them. She was on 25 (miligrams? I don't remember the measurement amounts...) a day. It was supposed to be a lot, I do know that. Her personality was very blank, and her face was often expressionless.
I see it as "A Brave New World" come to life.
My niece is on them....
when I hang around her I feel a drag on my energy....
as though her field becomes this vaccuum that sucks me dry.
I wonder if, because these drugs keep you "up" and peppy, it causes your energetic field to suck on the energy of others to keep that spin going?
I have tried to suggest to her that she doesn't need them but she has a whole "story" going about why she needs them...I will try again over the holidays but it's a difficult game of dodgeball to get in to her consciousness. But I love her, so I will not give up, just keep circling back until I get through one day (hopefully).
I went through a horrible deep depression myself when I was in college and never went on meds. Thankfully, this forced me to face the actual problems, investigate the underlying causes, and change....
One of the biggest problems was that I was doubting and ignoring my TRUTH. I had capitulated to the hive, stopped believing in myself. I saw so many things wrong with the world and the thinking of those around me, but in my insecurity I just thought, "What do I know? Who am I to tell these people they are wrong? Do I have all the answers?"
But now in retrospect I see I was RIGHT.
Incidentally, I'm not saying I was perfect or that I was not also contributing to the problem at the time. Rather, my gut instincts about what was wrong with the world around me were correct.
My main concern was that every explanation and solution to our world's problems offered by the supposedly intelligent people around me were NARROW and LIMITED. They were about solving one symptom of a problem, and usually creating other problems in the process. Piecemeal, not wholistic.
This little voice inside me kept asking "What about the bigger picture?"
Our culture is very good at knowing HOW...but I wanted to know WHY?
wut i heard about anti-depressants is that when you get off the drug you begin to have violent tendencies. I heard of a kid getting off of the drugs who killed his grandparents, and a college girl who jumped out the window when she went off the drug. DEPRESSION IS NORMAL. I am very depressed, when i wake up in the morning i am depressed as shit. Just because u are depressed does not mean u will kill urself. like tillibullu it has caused me to question life, and to look at everything we do everyday from many different perspectives. If Depression is part of ur nature u should not change it. when u try to change ur nature it is impossible u just end up screwing urslef more than when ur depressed.
MEDS ARENT THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING
There was ?researcher? that said the best ani-depressant is to actually get the person out and serve. Whether service projects or at soup kitchens how ever, where ever...serve?
Don't know the first name last name was Meininger I think.
wut i heard about anti-depressants is that when you get off the drug you begin to have violent tendencies.
yes, if they are stopped suddenly instead of gradually.
Dear Friends
kind regards
I advise anyone against taking anti-depressants.
Nearly everything that Doctors give us are no good for our health.
I think half the time doctors, dentists and vets manufacture problems in order to heal them.
I have a few tips to help with depressing.
1. Find a hobby to take up.
Whenever I get depressed I watch WWF and my depression dissapears.
Seeing as though all of the TV Evangelists are called Doctors...........Vince McMahon should be called a Doctor too.
This is one of the reasons why I think Wrestling will survive the shift 2012-McMahon created a product that removes depression of everyday life and Illuminati scams.
2. Look on the bright side of life.
3. Shun medications at every opportunity-they make things worse.
I hope that my contribution to this thread has been of valid use to someone.
yours thankfully
John
This is one of the reasons why I think Wrestling will survive the shift 2012-McMahon created a product that removes depression of everyday life and Illuminati scams.
I have now officially heard it all.
WMHAOI
wut i heard about anti-depressants is that when you get off the drug you begin to have violent tendencies ...
MEDS ARENT THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING
Right on. From what I've learned simple good diet, exercise (especially cardiovascular) and rest play a major role in maintaining proper mood. I have personal experience with St. John's Wort as well and it can be quite helpful for minor cases.
Great comments from everyone. At the heart of it, depression is caused by feelings of helplessness and unworthiness arising out of the lies we believe about ourselves. This is where psychiatry fails, because shrinks went through the same domestication process we did and, like us, do not recognize the lies they themselves believe. They proclaim a diagnosis which merely enforces the lie that there's something wrong with us and put us on drugs that separate us from our emotions but do not engage productive self-examination at the same time. So our conflicts continue with the drugs dampening the emotional response so we seem "better" at least to others. Really all that does is manage our behavior according to accepted norms; it's never going to "cure" anything. It still leaves our personal power locked in the hands of others.
That's why people often have breakthroughs when they stop concentrating on themselves and start thinking about and acting on behalf others. It's a way to step back from our own ego and emotions, and one result is that we can see ourselves better. We can see that we are love, because it's reflected back to us when we share it with others. When we see that we are love, many of the lies we believe about ourselves begin to break down, and we start to love ourselves. This empowers us from inside to take responsibility for our lives.
I know I am preaching to the choir here, but anyway....
I remember watching this ad on teevee whilst in a laundromat. It was a cartoon character feeling sad, with rain constantly falling on him. Then he took this drug and the sun shined again....
The message was, "Something is wrong or deficient in you, the individual". Of course society is not questioned. There is no questioning of the larger picture.....
we know HOW to elevate mood with drugs.
But we forget to ask WHY so many people are depressed in the first place.
Also, if this American system is supposed to create such great privilege for white men, why is it that white males have the highest rate of suicide in the U.S., way above and beyond the rates of other groups (by gender, race)???
Average people don't ask "WHY?"
And Soloflecks, word-up on your comments! We ARE love, and I am learning to understand this and gradually gaining greater strength and peace as I come to know this truth.
You gotta love the absolute and total HYPOCRISY that runs rampant in the pharmaceutical industry. They'll show commercials on TV for various drugs for things like depression, sexual dysfunction, commercials like the one tillibullu described above, then "the powers that be" turn around and proclaim that illegal "street" narcotics which are also mood modifiers are illegal. In fact, you'll go to prison for YEARS if caught posessing or selling them. Does this MAKE any sense??!? No, of course not.
I'm preaching to the choir too on this one, I'm sure, but it's really irking me the more I think about it.
If anybody ever hears somebody talking about "drug dealers" or "drug addicts" or what a crime drugs are, ask them if they've ever taken medication. Pain meds, meds for post-surgery pain, psychological meds....ask them if they have any family members who are on meds. Point out the hypocrisy.
Oh Soloflecks, sooooo true, especially the part about stopping concentrating on themselves and start thinking about and acting on behalf of others. I happen to work with many psychiatrists, and it takes great restraint keeping my mouth shut; especially if the psychiatrist has an "Apollo complex"-must say it gets the creative juices flowing as far as communicaiton goes. Believing in the "Big Lie" is so often engrained that some people get really scared to face it, let alone remotely question/consider this at all (the Big Lie).
I also think one reason for depression is a lack of a sense of purpose and a loss of direction; When a person feels they have no purpose, nothing exciting that's worth getting up for in the morning, no direction, that leads to stagnation which seems to then spiral into depression. In these modern times, many people's lives lack purpose and direction.
Compulsive shopping is result of "trying to fill a void." Be endlessly on the prowl for cool things to buy which temporarily makes you feel good, gives you something to do and provides distraction for real problems that need to be dealt with. People with a "need" to shop in my opinion are all people who are uneasy and feeling empty with nothing better to do with themselves. Just my two cents. 
I like the bit in the film Waking Life where one character mentions how exciting this current "historical" period of humanity is, and that whatever you do, don't be bored!!
I think a lot of people who are depressed are just missing a couple pieces that would allow them to verify the bigger picture and trust their gut. So they become isolated, not knowing that many people see what they see and have been there, and that there is Truth beyond their state of sinking oblivion.
We are at such an important juncture, it is a sin to be depressed! Awaken, rejoice, get into life....we need you and your creative spark!
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