Post subject: When you are not on antidepressants, you are most unstable?

I've been following news and reports on antidepressants, and I often hear that, when you are on antidepressants, you are stable more or less, but the most dangerous time is when you get off the medication. A day after you get off or two days after you get off, that's when you become so unstable mentally and can harm others. Is this true?

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I would think so. I think that stuff MAKES one unstable! And also, it does nothing to deal with the causes and triggers, as well as actually robbing a person of the opportunity to learn strategies to better deal with situations. Seems a bit like merely covering a festering sore rather than curing it.

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As I mentioned in the other topic I have suffered from bouts of depression through out my adult life, I have often been put on to medication for this and I can honestly say it has never made me want to harm other people - maybe it depends on the type of depression you are suffering from or the severity, but when coming off of the medication you more often than not feel a bit 'flakey' for want of a better word. Emotional and tired is probably a better way of discribing it.

Medication for depression helps to relieve some of the symptoms it doesnt make the problem go away - and it often takes a good few weeks for the medication to start working - so as a result it can take a few weeks for it to get out of the system it isn't like a lightswitch or a drug fix where you suddenly go into cold turkey.

Hope this was useful

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Yes, very true. You are supposed to wean off of the medication. I know that you can have a really bad roller coaster effect with your emotions while your chemicals are in shock during your cold turkey discontinuation of many medications, especially those for our mental well being.

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My belief: Don't do drugs!

Post subject: Re: When you are not on antidepressants, you are most unstab