How many of you take, or have taken in the past, anti-depressants?

[Bones]

I used to when I was in high school to treat ADHD (or at least what some quack suspected was ADHD ), however after sophomore year of college I ceased intake cold turkey.

What about you?

 

[Sheldon]

I've taken AD's before, but not for clinically-diagnosed depression.

 

[Trajan]

are we including self medication?

 

[uscitizen]

I just take mostly depressants.

 

[Skull Pilot]

I prefer stimulants

 

[Barb]

I used to when I was in high school to treat ADHD (or at least what some quack suspected was ADHD ), however after sophomore year of college I ceased intake cold turkey.

What about you?

I took one for a couple of weeks to try to stop smoking. I didn't stop smoking, but I was a happy little camper. Problem was, I was tripping. "Oh, look at the pretty clouds, how the light is pink, and bends...oh! shit! the ROAD!" I'm a weenie, but I had little flashbacks, slide backs, for a year after I stopped taking it.

My favorite med of all time was a pain med, a narcotic. The hospital gave it to me after my son was born. Happy, happy, happy pills. Never did find out what they were, but DAYum! they were the shit.

 

[Barb]

I used to when I was in high school to treat ADHD (or at least what some quack suspected was ADHD ), however after sophomore year of college I ceased intake cold turkey.

What about you?

Odd, Ritalin was the kids version of Coke. It was a stimulant, because there's a backwards effect for ADHD. I gave my son a cup of coffee every day and he was fine. Learned that trick from my friend's pediatrician, because he told her to give her son coffee after his breathing treatments, which make people hyper. I think the drug in the breathing treatments is Albuterol.

 

[JWBooth]

Nope, but I am the reason several former employers were taking them.

 

[R.C. Christian]

I used to but I'm not sure they are really as necessary as big pharma would like you to believe. They have perculiar side effects. I used to think exercises was the best AD.

 

[Trajan]

I used to when I was in high school to treat ADHD (or at least what some quack suspected was ADHD ), however after sophomore year of college I ceased intake cold turkey.

What about you?

I took one for a couple of weeks to try to stop smoking. I didn't stop smoking, but I was a happy little camper. Problem was, I was tripping. "Oh, look at the pretty clouds, how the light is pink, and bends...oh! shit! the ROAD!" I'm a weenie, but I had little flashbacks, slide backs, for a year after I stopped taking it. .

what are they called and do you have more?

 

[uscitizen]

I prefer stimulants

Yes me too, but they make pain worse.

Escatrol, black beauties, etc.

Tried Coke and found it to be just a mediocre stimulant to me. No euphoria, etc. Road aspirins were just as good as coke for me.

 

[Lumpy 1]

I used to when I was in high school to treat ADHD (or at least what some quack suspected was ADHD ), however after sophomore year of college I ceased intake cold turkey.

What about you?

Nope.. never.. generally a swift kick on the ass by my parents straightened me out...

 

[Trajan]

I prefer stimulants

Yes me too, but they make pain worse.

Escatrol, black beauties, etc.

Tried Coke and found it to be just a mediocre stimulant to me. No euphoria, etc. Road aspirins were just as good as coke for me.

black beauties.....

 

[Barb]

I used to when I was in high school to treat ADHD (or at least what some quack suspected was ADHD ), however after sophomore year of college I ceased intake cold turkey.

What about you?

I took one for a couple of weeks to try to stop smoking. I didn't stop smoking, but I was a happy little camper. Problem was, I was tripping. "Oh, look at the pretty clouds, how the light is pink, and bends...oh! shit! the ROAD!" I'm a weenie, but I had little flashbacks, slide backs, for a year after I stopped taking it. .

what are they called and do you have more?

I don't remember, and if I do, they're a couple years old. I hate scripts. I want some creative control over my entertainment. And time constraints.

 

[Sarah G]

My mom had 8 kids, she was the one on anti-depressants.

 

[geauxtohell]

I took one for a couple of weeks to try to stop smoking. I didn't stop smoking, but I was a happy little camper. Problem was, I was tripping. "Oh, look at the pretty clouds, how the light is pink, and bends...oh! shit! the ROAD!" I'm a weenie, but I had little flashbacks, slide backs, for a year after I stopped taking it. .

what are they called and do you have more?

I don't remember, and if I do, they're a couple years old. I hate scripts. I want some creative control over my entertainment. And time constraints.

Probably bupropion/chantix

PubMed Health - Bupropion

 

[Sallow]

I prefer stimulants

Yes me too, but they make pain worse.

Escatrol, black beauties, etc.

Tried Coke and found it to be just a mediocre stimulant to me. No euphoria, etc. Road aspirins were just as good as coke for me.

black beauties.....

Oh gosh.

Good times..good times.

 

[uscitizen]

My mom had 8 kids, she was the one on anti-depressants.

Yep or vallium, ie "Mothers little helpers".

 

[Revere]

I used to when I was in high school to treat ADHD (or at least what some quack suspected was ADHD ), however after sophomore year of college I ceased intake cold turkey.

What about you?

You picked a bad time to quit sniffing glue.

 

[Mr. H.]

Yeah during the divorce I went to the doc and told him I was tired of crying and didn't want to feel a thing. Was on Paxil for a while before I figured out it was causing me to make the decision to stay in that dead end marriage from hell. I quit both.