meds help: What will happen to me if i stop taking my anti-depressant? - Help.com

I think that is a question you need to pose to your doctor.

Hit rock bottom - I did. It hurt.
Only stop when your totally sure and have sorted out your life.

anything from massive mood swings to nausea and vertigo, they are drugs and coming off them quickly is like any other withdrawal. if you want to come off them talk to your doctor about it. as ditzy said it sucks and is not advisable.

u will become the opposite of anti drepressed ….sooo yes ur legs will hurt!

well, for 1 your doctor will get really POed, and 2, as Ditzy Jubilee and SayItsSo said, you’ll just go back to where you started and possibly worse……

withdraw will occur. it is not recommended (Trust me). especially if your on the heavy stuff. talk to your doctor and demand that you be weened off of it if you really want to stop taking them.

You should only get off them if you feel you want to.

well if your on them, and your still haveing problems. then maybe they aren’t right for you. maybe you need to help yourself in a way that drugs can’t.

name with no face wrote:
well if your on them, and your still haveing problems. then maybe they aren’t right for you. maybe you need to help yourself in a way that drugs can’t.

as i mentioned in another thread, the drugs won’t solve the problem, they just get you to a position where you can solve it.

i most absoutely do not recommend coming off your pills unless you do it with close medical supervision, slowly and over time.
however…there does come a point where, as someone far more famous than me said “the drugs dont work”.
i was on them for 3 years, and finally came to the realisation that after a **** ton of hard work and therapy on my part, the pills were actually holding me back more than they were helping anymore.
so, if youve done all the work, it may well be time to come off them, although that is a scary thought!
but no one can tell you that, only you will know. and DONT just come off them!!

i dont know much about meds, but if youre supposed to be on them, you need to be on them. you shouldnt come off them just because you dont want them anymore. they are there to help. i cant imagine its nice relying on little pills, but its better than being at rock bottom. it would be the same as if youd come off then halfway through i think. your mood would suddenly plummet. i think. im sorry if its not much help, im just thinking logically

yur dad sounds like a ****. kindof like my dad. I was depressed for years (still am i guess) and my mom was all for me being medicated for it. but i kindof hated the way i felt on medication and going to the doctors/psychiatrists for bs sessions. Felt like they were just trying to sell me pills for fix me with their own self absorbed methods. My dad, without ever talking to me about how i felt about it all, was all against me being medicated. at first i thought he was on my side, but then i realised he was on his own side, and he has been that way ever since. now that im off of them and have bouts of depression (that i had anyway even while medicated) he can only think of himself and how it effects him. no support whatsoever, and he instead gets mad at me about it, especially if i have any problem with him.

so i wouldn’t say you’re being dumb about it. I’d say that you’re in a tough predicament, but ultimately you need to think about whats best for you. Fathers are just people, there are plenty of em that you bump into on the streets and they never seemed all that special to me, so if he’s being unsupportive, tell him that you don’t appreciate it, and live your own life.

~willard~ wrote:
UGH!!!! I have absolutly NO support from my father. i try to talk to him and its like he doesnt believe me because i cant give him a super straight answer as to why i cut myself. He becomes sarcastic and just ignores what i say and trys to make his points which mean nothing if he would listen to me!!!! UGH! Of all the people i want and need support from the most, i dont get it!!!! He says to just go off the pills and thats that!

Can someone please help me??? I dont know what to do! Am i really being dumb about all this?

ya know taking pills and councelling and therapy and talking about your feelings n all…is a relatively new thing. People of earlier generations sometimes just cant understand it, especially if they have a history of not being able to talk about it themselves.
but as no face says, if he cant understand and wont be supportive, then you dont need him. youre doing it for yourself, and thats a really empowering thing.
i would tell him if he cant be supportive then dont even bother commenting coz you dont wanna hear it and itll jsut push you away.