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What do you do when you're depressed?
Ixarku:
--- Quote from: NeonFlame on June 22, 2012, 01:50:30 PM ---Sorry it just bugged me to see a comment coming from someone that seemed to be completely ignoring what pot is supposed to be good for, one of the things it's used to treat! Everyone is obviously going to have different results, just like when taking anti-depressants or anti-anxiety drugs different ones work for different people.
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I love the commercials for the anti-depressants with the warnings about side effects such as "may increase suicidal thoughts", etc. Kind of counter-intuitive that something that supposed to treat depression can actually make it worse in certain people. The ironing is delicious, as they say.
Nikkoru:
--- Quote from: Ixarku on June 22, 2012, 09:29:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: NeonFlame on June 22, 2012, 01:50:30 PM ---Sorry it just bugged me to see a comment coming from someone that seemed to be completely ignoring what pot is supposed to be good for, one of the things it's used to treat! Everyone is obviously going to have different results, just like when taking anti-depressants or anti-anxiety drugs different ones work for different people.
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I love the commercials for the anti-depressants with the warnings about side effects such as "may increase suicidal thoughts", etc. Kind of counter-intuitive that something that supposed to treat depression can actually make it worse in certain people. The ironing is delicious, as they say.
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My favourite iatrogenic paradox is anti-anxiety tranquilizers, whose potential side-effects include; Rage, mania, loss of memory, depression, and impaired thinking.
There are other medications available, though all forms of anti-anxiety medication can cause some level of nervousness, sleeplessness and other serious physical discomforts.
And yes, they're addictive.
Even if you stop taking your medication, the anxiety will return soon after if you don't seek treatment in the interim.
Topping it all off, anxiety is a condition which is easily misdiagnosed.
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on June 22, 2012, 10:37:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ixarku on June 22, 2012, 09:29:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: NeonFlame on June 22, 2012, 01:50:30 PM ---Sorry it just bugged me to see a comment coming from someone that seemed to be completely ignoring what pot is supposed to be good for, one of the things it's used to treat! Everyone is obviously going to have different results, just like when taking anti-depressants or anti-anxiety drugs different ones work for different people.
--- End quote ---
I love the commercials for the anti-depressants with the warnings about side effects such as "may increase suicidal thoughts", etc. Kind of counter-intuitive that something that supposed to treat depression can actually make it worse in certain people. The ironing is delicious, as they say.
--- End quote ---
My favourite iatrogenic paradox is anti-anxiety tranquilizers, whose potential side-effects include; Rage, mania, loss of memory, depression, and impaired thinking.
There are other medications available, though all forms of anti-anxiety medication can cause some level of nervousness, sleeplessness and other serious physical discomforts.
And yes, they're addictive.
Even if you stop taking your medication, the anxiety will return soon after if you don't seek treatment in the interim.
Topping it all off, anxiety is a condition which is easily misdiagnosed.
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And they call themselves doctors, huh.
Nikkoru:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 23, 2012, 12:25:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on June 22, 2012, 10:37:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ixarku on June 22, 2012, 09:29:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: NeonFlame on June 22, 2012, 01:50:30 PM ---Sorry it just bugged me to see a comment coming from someone that seemed to be completely ignoring what pot is supposed to be good for, one of the things it's used to treat! Everyone is obviously going to have different results, just like when taking anti-depressants or anti-anxiety drugs different ones work for different people.
--- End quote ---
I love the commercials for the anti-depressants with the warnings about side effects such as "may increase suicidal thoughts", etc. Kind of counter-intuitive that something that supposed to treat depression can actually make it worse in certain people. The ironing is delicious, as they say.
--- End quote ---
My favourite iatrogenic paradox is anti-anxiety tranquilizers, whose potential side-effects include; Rage, mania, loss of memory, depression, and impaired thinking.
There are other medications available, though all forms of anti-anxiety medication can cause some level of nervousness, sleeplessness and other serious physical discomforts.
And yes, they're addictive.
Even if you stop taking your medication, the anxiety will return soon after if you don't seek treatment in the interim.
Topping it all off, anxiety is a condition which is easily misdiagnosed.
--- End quote ---
And they call themselves doctors, huh.
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To be fair, they do work to relieve people with a serious physiological and psychological condition - when that's actually the issue.
I remember taking tranquilizers as sleep aids, getting addicted to them, suffering hallucination, and forgetting where I was. The existential dread involved in that period was considerable, had I been the type to suffer unduly from anxiety it would have been far far worse.
That's why I have such a revulsion against American pharmaceutical advertisements, suggestible people can go through an entirely unnecessary hell because some vaguely worded advertisement leads them to self-diagnose. Rather than advising them to go seek psychological treatment, if only to enlighten them of the fictitious nature of their insecurities, they're to go seek their doctor and ask them for this drug. Which leads to the murky world of legal yet not precisely moral patronage of diagnosticians by big pharma. For obvious reasons, neurotic people are easily victimized by such concerns.
metro.:
Weed saps the motivation, thus if you're depressed you won't be motivated to do something about it.
That's my two cents.
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