My doc said it’s okay to start trying to decrease my dosage (antidep) since I had returned to work full time. A month later, the depression came back so hard, I could hear it. It’s better now that we readjusted/increased the dosage. He told me, some people need to be on SSRI their whole loves. Ugh… That was hard to hear. While I actively work against the demonization of medication, it still felt like a blow below the belt. My therapist wants me to think of medication as crutches.
Thanks. I’ve heard other depressed people say the same. It does make it somewhat easier, while at the same time making me think, “I’m a broken specimen who in a nature/wild setting would’ve died before turning 15 years”.
My doc said it’s okay to start trying to decrease my dosage (antidep) since I had returned to work full time. A month later, the depression came back so hard, I could hear it. It’s better now that we readjusted/increased the dosage. He told me, some people need to be on SSRI their whole loves. Ugh… That was hard to hear. While I actively work against the demonization of medication, it still felt like a blow below the belt. My therapist wants me to think of medication as crutches.
I don’t think that was the takeaway from your doc.
If you look at this like the physical imbalance of chemicals it is, it’s a bit easier to accepr/understand.
Thanks. I’ve heard other depressed people say the same. It does make it somewhat easier, while at the same time making me think, “I’m a broken specimen who in a nature/wild setting would’ve died before turning 15 years”.
90% of us. Anyone who says otherwise probably records reruns of Joe Rogan.