Record Numbers On Anti-depressants

[waxzy]

Record numbers on anti-depressants
Mon May 14 2007

The number of prescriptions for anti-depressants has hit an all-time high, a mental health charity has revealed.

More than 31 million prescriptions for anti-depressants were written last year - a rise of 6 per cent on the year before, according to Mind.

It comes as the charity released research showing that country walks can help reduce depression and raise self-esteem, leading to calls for "ecotherapy" to become a recognised treatment for people with mental health illnesses.

The study by the University of Essex compared the benefits of a 30-minute walk in a country park with a walk in an indoor shopping centre on a group of 20 members of local Mind associations.

After the country walk, 71 per cent reported decreased levels of depression while 90 per cent reported increased self-esteem. This contrasted with only 45 per cent who experienced a decrease in depression after the shopping centre walk, and 22 per cent even said they actually felt more depressed.

In a separate study a massive 94 per cent said green activities had benefited their mental health and lifted depression while 90 per cent said the combination of nature and exercise had the greatest effect.

Mind describes ecotherapy as "getting outdoors and getting active in a green environment as a way of boosting mental well-being". Its chief executive Paul Farmer believes it will play an important part in the future of mental health treatments.

He said: "It is a credible, clinically-valid treatment option and needs to be prescribed by GPs, especially when for many people access to treatments other than anti-depressants is extremely limited."

[waxzy]

ok maybe my math was off there

should be 1 in 8.333 people are on anti-depressants

that in itself is still depressing

[SerialExpLain]

The right antidepressant can make you smile through anything, and I mean anything.

Zoloft is the one that comes to mind.

Once I was in a physicians office waiting room, and this very very upbeat woman sat next to me. She smiled, I smiled, I was just sitting there reading a magazine, and she started chatting away, so I put down the magazine and I started to have a conversation with this very elated person.

She had metastatic breast cancer with mets to the liver and lung, she was dying, BUT she was on Zoloft and nothing else mattered. I'm sure if the dosage was kept right, she grinned all the way out.

[ephilution]

Quote:The right antidepressant can make you smile through anything, and I mean anything.

Zoloft is the one that comes to mind.

Once I was in a physicians office waiting room, and this very very upbeat woman sat next to me. She smiled, I smiled, I was just sitting there reading a magazine, and she started chatting away, so I put down the magazine and I started to have a conversation with this very elated person.

She had metastatic breast cancer with mets to the liver and lung, she was dying, BUT she was on Zoloft and nothing else mattered. I'm sure if the dosage was kept right, she grinned all the way out.

Welcome to the age of the smiling depressive...

[waxzy]

*whack*
Thank you sir can I have another?
*whack*
Thank you sir can I have another?
*whack*
Thank you sir....


forget which movie but maybe you get the idea.
Are these drugs helping to make people complacent and just accept the BS we are forced to accept everyday? Probably.

[triplesix]

I just mentioned this fact in another thread but am I the only one that finds it disturbing that Prozac is 94% fluoride?

[hardboiled11]

Might explane the insane increase of bad drivers lately, the mentallity of those on the road is high level of sociopathic behavior, it just gets worse and worse every year (at least over here). Not only that peoples mentality when you trying to great them, they are highly ANTI SOCIAL, must be those anti depressent drugs. WHATS THIS COUNTRY come to, its like we are bunch of zombies on PCP's now, we can explode at any moment and kill one and another but still fear the government!

Quote:I just mentioned this fact in another thread but am I the only one that finds it disturbing that Prozac is 94% fluoride?

OF course, not only that its in your water, they say its not enough to make a effect, but you know that water is ehhh interesting. I tell you know your pretty much made of water, buts a bit complex, and it will most definetly have a effect on the brain, first then the body.

[SerialExpLain]

Prozac = Feels like coming down off coke, do you feel good coming down off coke?

Zoloft = They killed your baby, husband, parents, all your friends, cousins....and you have a brain tumor!
What, you're still smiling and FEEL FANTASTIC?

Celexa = How much did I put on the credit cards last month?????? Oh, well, I can't stop spending :biggrin:
Piss me off and meet my raging beast, and it won't take much. Can we go to a casino?
Now or I'll kill you!!!!

Paxil = How much did I put on the credit cards last month???? I can't stop spending, and I can do
ANYTHING I WANT, no fear of trucks, I'll just drive through them, or any human for any reason.
And there are two solid pages of side effects in the PDR - this drug can cause almost anything or
what if it caused all 500 some at once:crazy:

[xanimefanx]

Quote:Prozac = Feels like coming down off coke, do you feel good coming down off coke?

Zoloft = They killed your baby, husband, parents, all your friends, cousins....and you have a brain tumor!
What, you're still smiling and FEEL FANTASTIC?

Celexa = How much did I put on the credit cards last month?????? Oh, well, I can't stop spending :biggrin:
Piss me off and meet my raging beast, and it won't take much. Can we go to a casino?
Now or I'll kill you!!!!

Paxil = How much did I put on the credit cards last month???? I can't stop spending, and I can do
ANYTHING I WANT, no fear of trucks, I'll just drive through them, or any human for any reason.
And there are two solid pages of side effects in the PDR - this drug can cause almost anything or
what if it caused all 500 some at once:crazy:

What about Seroquel and Fluvoxamine which i take

[SerialExpLain]

Quote:What about Seroquel and Fluvoxamine which i take

Sorry, not familiar with either, but hopefully they agree with you and don't have helly side effects.

[Darrell3644]

You guys have obviously never suffered from clinical depression or an anxiety disorder. Maybe a lot of people take these medications not really needing them or some have negative reactions, but if a person suffers from serious depression, a walk in the park isn't going to do a damn thing for them.

[ephilution]

Quote:You guys have obviously never suffered from clinical depression or an anxiety disorder. Maybe a lot of people take these medications not really needing them or some have negative reactions, but if a person suffers from serious depression, a walk in the park isn't going to do a damn thing for them.

Your point being?

[Shinobi]

Quote:You guys have obviously never suffered from clinical depression or an anxiety disorder. Maybe a lot of people take these medications not really needing them or some have negative reactions, but if a person suffers from serious depression, a walk in the park isn't going to do a damn thing for them.

From observation, I understand you bro
thats basically what the doctors say to people who are depressed whilst handing them out the pills
like it is all suddenly going to go away just having a walk in the park
as if the very depressed people are just going to forget everything and let the happy pills kick in
and all their problems will dissapear and everything is fine and dandy....
It is so not so, so yes I know where you are coming from here as I used to suffer chronical deep
depression, and of course unless anyone else has been in that boat then they cant understand.
Remember doctors can only go by what you say, they cant see in your mind and detect exactly
what is wrong with a person, they can only go by how you tell them or explain things
the doctors of yesterday were very sympathetic and gave their own personal therapy
and encouragement to patients, this clearly does not exist anymore within the doctors practice
nowdays if a person is depressed these doctors will quick enough throw you some sickening
fucked up mind control drugs to ruin you even more and before you know it you are breaking down

It goes to show you the people who are GP's - Doctors - of today, their profession and care of patient
has been so diminished that all that clouds their very minds is the greed and lust for more money
giving patients toxic mental mind fuck drugs that make their patients worse
these very doctors - they have lost all knowledge all purpose from what their original job was or is
when helping people. My way out was through prayer I kid you not, also by totally occupying myself
with brain exercises which every human being is capable of doing and somewhat mastering my own
anxieties and pains - you do have to be careful when doing this as you can become too confident
and before you know it you are back to sqaure zer0, but by power of ones own thought and strength
in mind and of course encouragement from anybody who urges and wishes you well is always a bonus
in the times of suffering in pain.......

[hilly7]

I think there are better ways to fight depression and each will find what works for them. I keep busy usually physically but since a surgery that didn't go right that ended so I do mentally or a long walk and talk with God. I also keep away from negative people, but I lend a shoulder when needed. I actually enjoy posting on this board be it I agree or disagree with what I've read far more than the Lymphoma board which I get digests from but seldom ever visit let alone post anymore. Everybody's happy and the ones that aren't are sensored, but they seem to smile while others make a killing from pain while they die.
We've all been sold a false bill of goods, we deserve better, God is punishing us or God is testing us, no wonder depression is all around. You know, it's life, it's not suppose to be all good and there will always be pain at some point. And no you don't have to take all the shit people or government give you, fight back. But remember this : Be it good or bad, no moment lasts forever.
I took Zoloft 14 years when they said I had an incureable but treatable disease, know what, it didn't cure me I just didn't have enough sense to know it. The mood swings were bad, aI was either goofy happy or ready to kill if provoked. I came off it and sometimes I was unhappy, depressed, sad, glad, happy and content at different times, it's called normal.
Now 2 years ago a pretty bad H.A. and it took the sap out of me but I still smiled up to my last breath, my only prayer. 6 months later when incurable cancer was told I smiled, did I get depressed, a bit but I handled it and over time my kids and wife has as well. My parents handle it well and I have no need for antidepressants. I'm dieing and that's ok most days, it is a natural process,. bit painfuil at times but I knew it wasn't suppose to be easy, course I ain't ready to go just yet. When I do it's time and no pills are going to make me not totally enjoy the act of being alive.
What good do these pills do, you are still you, they are still them and things are still the way they were. We are not robots so yes we react. But the we cope. A soft shoulder is needed briefly, a swift kick in the butt mostly. Yes i am happy, people call me smiley buit there are times I'm not. It is your frame of mind and perspectives that will save you, not the drugs. It is miskakes we make like food, stress and a host of others. It's choices either we make of allow others to make for us and usually based on profit.

[SerialExpLain]

A reputable psychiatrist once explained to me that antidepressants are for people who would not be happy on a beach in Hawaii. So, if you are not happy in circumstances which should make you happy maybe you should consider antidepressants.

If you are emotionally labile and it is incapacitating perhaps a brief course of antidepressants can get you through a reactive depression. (Though I think Thorazine can immediately relieve even the most severe water-works and newer drugs aren't necessarily better drugs...remember Methaqualone, Librium, and Seconal?)

If you are overly irritable or anxious, a p.r.n. minor tranquilizer might make you feel more tolerable to yourself and others.

But I think antidepressants make you feel too flat and some people prefer their peaks and troughs and feel much more alive experiencing those roads less traveled, JMO.