Interesting Article - Hooked on Happy Pills

[kittikat]

Read this today and though some of you may be interested. It is about women with depression hooked on anti d's for many years.......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2219349/Hooked-happy-pills-30-years-Three-women-tell-easy-anti-depressants--terrifyingly-hard-up.html

[fozzy is crying]

That is why there is so much prozac in the water supply!!!!

We are all on it and it not just in this Country. Others such as USA and Canada have the same problem but many others as well that re-cycle sewage water.
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[kittikat]

:roflmao: Thanks Gordon....you're on form tonight as usual!! :roflmao:

[fozzy is crying]

:roflmao: Thanks Gordon....you're on form tonight as usual!! :roflmao:

Nope I am stuck in my chair with my two favourite composers. Brahms and Liszt.:weep::weep::weep::weep:

[kittikat]

Aww, Fozzy :bighug1::bighug1: big Bear Hugs for you xx :bighug1:

[fozzy is crying]

Aww, Fozzy :bighug1::bighug1: big Bear Hugs for you xx :bighug1:

Hic Drink, Feck, Woman [later in my distant dreams] hic

Oops new bottle needed last two suffered massive leaks.

[Sparkle1984]

I think that article is very negative. If it makes people happy, why does it matter how long they are on them for?

I like this comment someone left under the article:
And what, exactly, is so terrible about those of us with clinical depression, that is to say depressive disorders that are lifelong and not amenable to CBT or counselling, remaining on medication for life? If I were diabetic, would you tell me that taking insulin was a stupid thing to do and that I could manage perfectly well without it? No, of course you wouldn't.

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Typical Daily Mail scaremongering! :shrug:

[ElizabethJane]

Interesting article. I think that the majority of women who were interviewed needed to be on medication at some time in their lives. Maybe they were on it far too long without a proper review. I agree that the problems of withdrawing from some anti depressants can be so bad that the withdrawals mimic the illness making the patient believe that they are ill again. I would love to be taking less drugs but with a diagnosis of "severe recurrent depression' am not allowed to. I trust my care providers that they are doing the right thing in keeping me on meds. I am fairly successful now and work and socialise fairly normally. It would not be the same story without the meds. EJ