do you take psych pills?

Pie · 01-11-2007, 03:44 PM

To answer the question, no, I've never been on psychotherapeutic drugs. I am on a variety of other medications (stimvistatin, metformin, one or two others) in order to try to stay alive and healthy.
I've definitely had "low" periods in my life, some that possibly did qualify as depression. I understand that that's not unusual. I am not really at one of those points now, though.

A question I'd like to ask -- is it possible to be non-depressed (i.e. having none of the classical physical symptoms of depression) and yet wonder why you bother getting up in the morning, and what would be lost if you... just gave up? The only reason I take the aforementioned drugs is because there are worse things than actually dying (renal failure, heart attack, stroke, blindness, etc.) I'm actually rather neutral on the dying part. If someone told me I had an incurable disease and I was going to die in six months, I don't think I would bother to fight it.

Iggy · 01-11-2007, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie

To answer the question, no, I've never been on psychotherapeutic drugs. I am on a variety of other medications (stimvistatin, metformin, one or two others) in order to try to stay alive and healthy.
I've definitely had "low" periods in my life, some that possibly did qualify as depression. I understand that that's not unusual. I am not really at one of those points now, though.

A question I'd like to ask -- is it possible to be non-depressed (i.e. having none of the classical physical symptoms of depression) and yet wonder why you bother getting up in the morning, and what would be lost if you... just gave up? The only reason I take the aforementioned drugs is because there are worse things than actually dying (renal failure, heart attack, stroke, blindness, etc.) I'm actually rather neutral on the dying part. If someone told me I had an incurable disease and I was going to die in six months, I don't think I would bother to fight it.

Wow Pie... I think you just summed up what I was trying to say.

SteveDallas · 01-11-2007, 08:10 PM

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Wow Pie... I think you just summed up what I was trying to say.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that feeling too.

footfootfoot · 01-11-2007, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie

A question I'd like to ask -- is it possible to be non-depressed (i.e. having none of the classical physical symptoms of depression) and yet wonder why you bother getting up in the morning, and what would be lost if you... just gave up?

Could be raising of the Bodhi mind ?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-11-2007, 08:52 PM

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A question I'd like to ask -- is it possible to be non-depressed (i.e. having none of the classical physical symptoms of depression) and yet wonder why you bother getting up in the morning, and what would be lost if you... just gave up?

Yes, some mornings it's just not worth gnawing through the restraints.

View Poll Results: do you take, or have you taken psych oriented pills?
Yes,I currently have a script for a mind/mood altering drug	11	24.44%
I have taken them in the past	9	20.00%
I think that I need them, but have never actually done so	3	6.67%
No, never.	22	48.89%
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01-11-2007, 03:44 PM	#1
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	To answer the question, no, I've never been on psychotherapeutic drugs. I am on a variety of other medications (stimvistatin, metformin, one or two others) in order to try to stay alive and healthy. I've definitely had "low" periods in my life, some that possibly did qualify as depression. I understand that that's not unusual. I am not really at one of those points now, though. A question I'd like to ask -- is it possible to be non-depressed (i.e. having none of the classical physical symptoms of depression) and yet wonder why you bother getting up in the morning, and what would be lost if you... just gave up? The only reason I take the aforementioned drugs is because there are worse things than actually dying (renal failure, heart attack, stroke, blindness, etc.) I'm actually rather neutral on the dying part. If someone told me I had an incurable disease and I was going to die in six months, I don't think I would bother to fight it. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

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