Re:SSRi Antidepressants, take them if you need them and don't feel bad about it.

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Stop judging till you have walked in your moccassins eh?

Ok, well here goes, I started with obsessive thoughts and was awake

with a constant panic attack for 7 nights at which time I began

hallucinating. I could not eat, I could not sleep, the doc knocked me

out with tamezapam for a few nights. I woke up every morning in terror

of the day. I thought I was going to kill someone every time I saw a

knife, I was paranoid, I was unable to go out through agrophobia for 6

years. I could not breath much of the time because of the constant

panic, at times I thought my arm was detaching from my body. I was

depersonalized, suffered derealization and had irrational fears. My

weight plummeted. I suffered and never really got better, I still

suffer. That 'magic pill' made me able to function .... just, I have

never been able to enjoy my life, it is a rollercoaster of fear,

anxiety, and what if those obsessive unreal terrifying thoughts come

back. When they do you get a shock in the pit of your stomach and you

'leave this Earth'. I suffer depression constantly at various levels.

As you say, never judge until you have walked in someone elses moccasins.

I never told anyone not to take their medication, but knowledge is

power, they need to know what is in these things.

I make no apologies for that.