I don't really know if this is the right place for this kinda thing but here it is...... I have been on the anti depressant/anixety Lexapro for about 2 years. When I first got on it I was still in high school and high school was real hard for me there was the consant pressure to fit in and the fact that I didn't made so unhappy because my peers who at least at the time I thought it was my peers who made that hard for me. I realize now that it was all just part of learning to love myself and except that Iam a crazy freak and thats ok. Now I still get anxious and upset sometimes but thats normal and being a roller coaster is part of who Iam but it is up to me to learn how to control that. I must make the choice to be happy. I told my mom that I don't want to be a nother human product of the prozac nation and she just doesn't get . I don't want to be medicated anymore it is no longer helping me, I forget to take it and I think that it is limiting my creatvity and effecting my de programing process. I can't drink or smoke when I want because of how it might react with that kind of shit. I know that with a strong will to change and make myself even happier and gain personal freedom I need to be off medication. I think it would eliminate some of the inhibations I don't like and I wouldn't feel like I was going aganist what I believe if I wasn't medicated. Unfortuantely mom is not so understand she and my dad think that I need to stay on the meds to be leveled of. But I don't want to me level I want to be me. I want to laugh one mintune and cry the next and know that is ok. I just want to break free. I know that they will never understand. But does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can help them accept that this is the way I feel and its not going to change and that in order to really make my life better I need to handle my emotional stuff wich I have brought on myself on my own. I just don't know what to say to them anymore please help.
Tell them that you're 19, and if you don't want to be medicated....you don't have to. If that does't work, just stop taking the shit, regardless of what they say. They can't force you to take the meds.
fuck yeahh dude just throw one out every day of if they watch you takeem hide it in your cheek untill you walk away
First, don't quit cold turkey. You need to wean yourself off Lexapro (ask how I know). Tell your doctor and therapist this is what YOU want. You should be closely monitored while coming off this med. It's really wicked. If you didn't have problems before, you will if you do this wrong. Then enlist your therapist and doctor in talking to your parents. You may have to promise them that if you get too crazy you will go back on the meds. You may want to try going to another med before going off them. Some don't affect you as much as others and may ease the withdrawal process. Feel free to contact me if you want. I agree, IF you can get off the meds and live a somewhat normal life that is much better than staying on them forever.
i think the best thing you can do is take on the problem yourself, but at teh same time, once youve been taking meds for a certain amount of time, you can become slgithly dependent. you dont level off with drugs, you level TO drugs, and then if you take them away youre all off balance. try not taking them for a while and see if you go. just think about what the drugs do - serotonin reuptake inhibitors. try and boost your serotonin system naturally, with exercise, healthy sleep patterns (early to bed, early to rise), and a good diet. if you cover up your problems, you can never get rid of them. youre in the time of your life where depression is most likely to kill yourself, but youre also at the best time in your life for changing things around for the better. just dont start smoking weed to medicate yourself. people will say that its worked for them but youll always be better off being happy without drugs/.
Try to stay off all meds if poss. We are as we are supposed to be. For whatever that may be if ya know what I mean
