Anti -depressants

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Colin Phillips

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Report on Channel 5 news that anti-depressants are mostly ineffectual and any improvement in your condition by taking them may be all in the mind.

......and she delivered that gem with a straight face.

Chris Morris, eat your heart out.
 
ALRIGHT......................I tooka SSrI for years...... It took me years to get off it.....If anyone thinks it's funny?????? Meet me on here, I'd be more than happy to give you go???? In terms of agrument/ experience - ***** takers - F off - otherwise please lay on
 
My experience with anti depressants is that they do very little. Now when I was on Melleril that was quite a different story. A marvellous drug.

A quick google reveals "Melleril uses the active ingredient Thioridazine. Thioridazine belongs to a group of medicines known as the phenothiazine antipsychotics. It is sometimes referred to as a 'major tranquilliser'.

FK anti depressants. Proper drugs or nothing at all for me.
 
Originally posted by Warbler@Feb 28 2008, 12:56 AM
ALRIGHT......................I tooka SSrI for years...... It took me years to get off it.....If anyone thinks it's funny?????? Meet me on here, I'd be more than happy to give you go???? In terms of agrument/ experience - ***** takers - F off - otherwise please lay on
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I was avoiding this thread but glad I looked and read this comment.

I spent a couple of years on anti-depressants after a much-valued colleague took me aside and told me how I'd started behaving like a total @rse. I hadn't realised certain events in my life had taken a toll on me. I managed reasonably easily to come off them, by which time I could look back at my previous behaviour and wonder who the f*** was the @rse who was making life unnecessarily difficult for colleagues.

More recently, I could recognise similar patterns re-emerging in my behviour so I volunteered to go to the doc, who put me back on the same pills but this time they had the opposite effect. I became extremely dark-mooded, to the point of frightening the sh*t out of myself with some of the things that were going through my mind. I went back to the doc and was told the pills can have that effect if they weren't really needed in the first place. I probably just needed the right person to talk to for a while.

During this episode, I cast aside a very dear friend who has never spoken to me since, and it is something I will regret for ever.

I now take any issue regarding mental health very seriously.
 
I'm struggling to see where on this thread that anyone has taken the pish out people who take anti-depressants.

I started the thread to point out the unintentional humour of the way that the story was reported. It had me laughing out loud and spluttering out my rather cheap but eminently guzzleable wine.

It must be my peculiar sense of humour because it doesn't seem as if anyone else has found it funny.

Apologies to Warbler.....but I am the least likely to find the need to take anti-depressants funny..................15 years and until I depart this wonderful life.
 
Well, if you did think it was funny you could have responded, Bar.

I was getting quite depressed about things. :P

If you do really need reminding of the SS incident that cheers me up no end! :D
 
I saw the funny side of the original posting but feared the direction in which the thread might eventually head.
 
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