Antidepressants & Infidelity

[BluesPower]

Here is the issue, AD's can be a lifesaver for a lot of people.

 

Here is the problem, if someone is manic depressive also called bi-polar, AD's after a period of time can cause a manic episode.

 

Sometimes, BP looks like standard depression because the does not get to the manic phase of the BP disorder. So when these people are prescribed an AD and their serotonin, or whatever the other one is, goes up from the AD, they actually can go into a manic state.

 

Sometime this type of occurrence is the only way someone who appears to only be chronically depressed are diagnosed as BP.

 

BP disorder is usually not treated with AD's it is treated with mood stabilizes sometimes with a mild AD mixed in if necessary but not with AD's alone or any of the more powerful ones.

[NTV]

SL, I've seen you help numerous folks with your posts since I've been on this forum. It's hard to read about your past and not feel something.

When I had just found out about my ww cheating it was either take ad or drive off a bridge. But they just didn't block the depression but all emotions. I took them as long as needed but I could see how some one taking that would detach from those they love.

[Noirek]

I don't think unless you see it or experience it you can know what it is like to be on a med that makes you crazy. It isn't about lower inhibitions like alcohol or it being inside of you. It is medication actually changing you and you having no control over it. Like someone else is behind the wheel.

 

Recently I was on a medication (not anti depressant) that the doses was slowly uped. I became more and more emotional but only noticed in hind sight. I actually though my crying was due to the condition being treated.

 

And then I was getting angry. Really angry. Saying things withour even knowing what was coming out my mouth. And then crying.

 

Then one day I had a complete rage outbreak. I was screaming and screaming and couldn't stop. I started throwing things. I wasn't even mad at anyone. Just angry. I have never felt so not with it.

 

I called down and researched that reaction and the meds... and bam. A rare side effect. Most people are fine. And the some people turn crazy. Very few so yay me being someone who reacted in that way. Also, some people don't even notice the change it is so gradual in them. Everyone is so different.

 

I stopped the meds on my doctors advice cold turkey. Rode out the two weeks of being sicker than a dog and my mood stabalized. No more crying for no reason. haven't had rage in a while. My health is still not great but the depression is gone too. It is amazing how much the meds affected me without my even noticing and/or blaming the illness.

 

Its easy to sit back and judge and say someone made the choice themselves. That you can't blame meds or whatnot. But I know in my anger I literally lost control. It was a short spell and I am so very thankful my children were not present and it passed before I became violent towards my husband... its peobably a good thing he just let me scream and throw things because i don't know what would have happened had the rage turned towards him.

[Mrs. John Adams]

I took an anti depressant after my granddaughter died....otherwise...I cannot relate. It made me almost non emotional...but i still functioned sexually...so I don't quite understand....I also was completely and totally loyal to my husband...so I don't understand that either.

 

SL..I would ask you this...how does your husband behave now?..undrugged

 

Is he still abusive? Is he still not accountable? Is he still over dramatic in blaming you?

 

and if your answer is....his behavior is still not acceptable...then why in the hell are you still excusing his behavior and blaming medication?

 

STOP just STOP pardoning him....

 

he is absolutely responsible and accountable for his behavior.....now....then....and 12 years ago. Drugs are not responsible for his cruelty or his choices to treat you the way he did.

 

When you decide that you deserve better...you will stop this cycle.

[wmacbride]

about antidepressants...

 

I don't know about other's experiences, but I heard stories from people who were prescribed antidepressants alone, and were not prepared for the dramatic **** int heir behavior.

 

there were also prescribed them by a doctor, with no other form of therapy, monitoring or support.

 

In some cases, they can work wonders, in others, not so much.

 

One of the things our daughter's psychiatrist had warned us to look out for was the effect in the few weeks after she started taking them. She had been having trouble sleeping because of the depression, and they helped her to sleep, but that gave her the energy to act on the other facets of the disease, like self harming.