After my *** had been in the hospital for 2 weeks after her stroke last year, the doctors wanted to put her on anti-depressants. Paxil, if I'm not mistaken. My *** just went apeshit at the very idea because he knew the side effects. As much as people knock Scientology and say what they will about it, it told him the negative effects of anti-depressants and other **** that the doctor won't tell you. That's why he was so obstinate about not having her on it.
The reason why they wanted to put her on it was a fucking joke in the first place: they said the reason why she wasn't moving much and went she had very little sensation in her extremities was because she was depressed. BULLSHIT! She had recently had a fucking STROKE, a major clinical event in her brain that caused ***** to pool in part of her frontal and parietal lobes, and was, at the time, in a nearly vegetative state! How are they gonna know that someone is depressed if the person isn't even conscious?!? Eventually they explained to my *** that some of the common side effects of Paxil were things that could help her condition, so he begrudgingly agreed to a strictly monitored ************ in the lowest dose they could give her. He gave them specific instructions that she was to be taken off as soon as they determined that it wasn't working, which happened 4 weeks later.
So, yeah, that's pretty much the only real experience I have with anti-depressants. I've known a bunch of people who have taken them, and most of them have mostly negative things to say. Lori takes some **** called Trazadone (sp?) to help her ***** because normal ******** pills wouldn't work on her due to her medical history, and she's found that she's had to increase her dosage from two pills to four pills to get the same results. I think any medication will start losing effect on the body over time because eventually the body just assimilates it and a higher dose is needed to render the same results.
Now, tell me, aren't the responses in this thread oddly similar to our text conversation from last night?