Ive always suffered from depression. I never had suicidal thoughts just harming tendency.cutting myself when the pain got to hard to handle and I needed to release it physically.I now have a one year old and am in the military and have started taking the antidepressant prozac. Started out at 20mg and it wasn’t working I just started feeling worse now my dosage is 60mg and I’m absolutely miserable. I can barely pull myself out of bed I just lie there and cry and my little comes for her mommies attention and I can barely tolerate her for 10 min at a time. I did not have these symptoms before the prozac and I feel like the meds are making me worse I feel like such a bad mom my husband is having to take care of me and the baby I feel like I’m being selfish but I can barely get up enough strength to force myself to eat or get up to do the basics.
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I’m on zoloft and I was depressed before but now I have impules to hurt or even kill myself. This happened when I first started and now it’s happening again ( I doubled my dose a couple months ago). Honestly, I don’t think the pills help me at all. But in the morning, when I don’t feel like moving out of my bed for any reason at all, and I’m crouched down in the kitchen, crying (because I hurt and I feel sick), somehow at that moment, I believe that the zoloft is going to get me through my day. Then in the evening, I want to die. I miss my manic side. I miss me. But I’m on these pills because I stopped liking my life. now what?
You have to understand how you are hurting everyone, your friends, your family, your life partner. Stop being too selfish and think about others! Don’t always think about how sad and how unhappy you are. You should think how unhappy your family will be seeing you unhappy. What would happen if you commit suicide?Nothing, but u will just bring more sadness and depression to your surrounding. In my opinion, depression people are just being selfish and don’t care about their surroundings. i have many unhappy things too and i am sure everyone in this world has many unhappy side, but when i think about my mom, my dad, my boyfriend, my sisters, my friends, my brother i don’t want to harm myself. I just want to show them my positive side and i want to show them my success so that they can also be happy and successful on what they do. The more you think about your unhappiness, the more depress you will be. Think happiness! even if you only had one time happiness in your life always go back to that time! but i am sure you have a lot more happy time than just once. Your parents did not give you birth so that you will commit suicide and die. They gave you birth so that they can see your happy life and you to give more happiness to others! Always think happiness. Don’t listen so sad songs. Always listen to happy songs. Always go back to your old fun memories! GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN ALWAYS. ALWAYS THINK HAPPINESS.
Hi Lauren,
Unbiased research shows that anti-depressants rarely help people overcome depression. In fact, most drugs are very ineffectual and their benefits are fraudulently misrepresented by companies that want to profit from your illness. Not only are they unhelpful but they can have dangerous, often lethal, side-effects. For example, Prozac has been proven to increase the risk of suicide by 1200% . NSAIDs, cause 16, 500 deaths a year in the US alone by damaging the stomach, liver and kidneys.
If you’d like to know more about fraud in our medical system there is an excellent article here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/
Talk therapy is one of the best treatments for depression. Daily exercise is also very helpful. Depression can also be linked to nutritional deficiencies such as magnesium deficiency, amongst others. But first, find a qualified therapist to speak to. If you’d like to speak to an MD, look for a certified Holistic MD at holisticboard.org .