how many of us suffer from what

[psimancer]

ok how many of us suffer from these enjoyable little quirks

[Randallw]

Speaking from experience, but if you have manic depression or similar you don't have insomnia. The bloody medication puts you to sleep for 12 hours.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Randallw:
Speaking from experience, but if you have manic depression or similar you don't have insomnia. The bloody medication puts you to sleep for 12 hours.

Exactly why i refuse to touch the dam stuff!

[Randallw]

Actually there is a new medication that isn't so bad. I can actually get up in the morning. It used to be if I needed to get up in the morning I would skip my med. problem is it says "DO NOT CEASE TAKING THIS MEDICATION". After a few days of skipping it I start to regret it.

[Kamog]

Well, occasionally I wake up so tired I couldn't do anything productive, but I always know why: I got too little sleep that night. SE4 is sometimes a big part of the reason why I only got 1 1/2 hours of sleep and I'm half asleep the next day.

[Fyron]

LOL I like the results of the Last question.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
LOL I like the results of the Last question.

Yeah it says alot for the community. Must be like the only subject we mostly agree on.

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When they call me strange, has it ever occured to them that to me they might seem ...... NORMAL? Average, run of the mill, un-interesting, plain, blah, blanco, nothing, zilch, zero, null, dull, and all in all simply a figment of the majority!

[ July 10, 2004, 21:34: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Randallw:
Actually there is a new medication that isn't so bad. I can actually get up in the morning.

Through Personal Expirience I'd be very careful with this New Medication. I may only be 17 and obviously my years of wisdom and expirience may lack behind others but I know that most New Medication is certainly not tested as well as you would think. I was Subscribed by my Psychiatrist stuff that under 18's were not recommended to take unless under serious circumstances because nothing else had worked, he told me the risks and the truth behind it. Much of the New Medication released in recent years will be no doubt in my mind under intense scrutiny and anger as people find some serious unwanted side effect caused by it.

[Loser]

I was once medicated for adult ADD. I don't doubt that I have it, and I'll defend that if necessary but that's not where we're going right now, I don't think.

Anyway, I knew of the side effects but didn't see any sign of the ones that worried me. My friends knew when I was off the meds, because I was more likely to interupt, make rude comments, talk in the theater, and genrally make slightly but noticably more of an *** of myself than usual.

I went off the stuff twice a year or so, more to confirm that I needed it than to look for undersirable effects while I was back on it. At some point, though, I noticed that certain very, very important behaviors were almost completely absent while I was on the meds.

I had misunderstood one of the listed side effects, and didn't think I was experiencing it. As soon as I figured out what was going on, I ditiched the med compeltely and have been living with the original problem, adult ADD, ever since.

Some of my friends ('friends', perhaps) gave me a hard time when I was off-meds, and really let me have it when they found out I had ditched them permanantly. I had a good lashing ready for them, though, and fortunately there were others willing to back up my decision.

Of course, that's not to say that the drug-free life is for everyone. It is, however, important to remember that drugs don't 'fix' anything, they just allow you to trade one state of being for another, and the exchange is always complicated. It sure can be worthwhile, sometimes.

[Atrocities]

Where are the anti-depressents, the medicinal weed, the gun, the pen and paper, and my SEIV CD?