Women who Love too Much Community Group
WHEN BEING IN LOVE, MEANS BEING IN PAIN... This group is to help women through the journey of realizing they can love themselves. To help realize that they are capable of having a happy, healthy, whole relationship and break the cycle of abuse and heartache from loving emotionally unavailable men.
A pretty bi-polar topic of conversation...
But I have been thinking about the merits of anti-depressant medications as opposed to or in conjunction with talking therapies.
I know this is another massive issue and hard to condense into one tiny topic board...
But just wondering what experiences people have had with Anti-depressants?
(There are a lot of horry stories out there).
Me being a massive hypochondriac - get panicky about the much debated side-effects (especially weight gain, my best buddy is on them and literally is 6 stone heavier), addiction etc....
I have become really anti-pills.
I'm not holistic by any stretch of the imagination but after spending years on birth control and believe to be (partially) to blame for my screwed up endocrine system, I'm really wary about anti-depressants as a treatment.
Doctors in England (less so in Scotland from experience) are very, very quick to prescribe pills for a host of mental and psychological issues as opposed to counselling (which you generally have to wait over 2-3 months for). Which I think should perhaps be a last resort, after talking therapies....
What does everyone else think?
Not sure how pill vs talking treatment works in the US medical system?
But I have been thinking about the merits of anti-depressant medications as opposed to or in conjunction with talking therapies.
I know this is another massive issue and hard to condense into one tiny topic board...
But just wondering what experiences people have had with Anti-depressants?
(There are a lot of horry stories out there).
Me being a massive hypochondriac - get panicky about the much debated side-effects (especially weight gain, my best buddy is on them and literally is 6 stone heavier), addiction etc....
I have become really anti-pills.
I'm not holistic by any stretch of the imagination but after spending years on birth control and believe to be (partially) to blame for my screwed up endocrine system, I'm really wary about anti-depressants as a treatment.
Doctors in England (less so in Scotland from experience) are very, very quick to prescribe pills for a host of mental and psychological issues as opposed to counselling (which you generally have to wait over 2-3 months for). Which I think should perhaps be a last resort, after talking therapies....
What does everyone else think?
Not sure how pill vs talking treatment works in the US medical system?
My experience...
I wasn't. I failed a degree at college though later picked up with another.
After finally staying on a low dose of Citalopram for over a year,.I still struggle but can see some light.For example, I am working torwards a progression at work; I would not have had the guts before.
Thearpist states: important to feel your feelings and that anti-depressents mask them.
Like everything, it has it good and it is bad. I vascilate. Sandra Brown saids she has never met a group of women more resistent to medication then women that end with pathalogicals and sometimes your brain chemistry is so depleted that it is necessary.
Should we toss a coin or what? ;)
vehemently refused anti-depressants and don'cha know...
I've been stuck in mud for the past decade and a half.
Maybe should consider it. Just so stubborn.