Prozac and Depression
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Withdrawal from Prozac is harder than withdrawing from heroin! The withdrawal symptoms include trembling and tendencies to either suicide or violence to others.
By Gary Null, Ph.D. and Martin Feldman, M.D.
Side effects that have been associated with Prozac:
Suicide. Beyond the link between akathisia and acts of violence, some users of Prozac have said that the drug caused them to develop suicidal thoughts and obsessions. In some cases, the use of Prozac allegedly has prompted people to commit murder. This aspect of the drug has generated controversy and led to discussions in both medical publications and the general media about the connection between Prozac and acts of violence
Psychosis. A person’s nervousness may reach a psychotic level when the overstimulation of the nervous system is severe. People can become paranoid, extremely depressed, suicidal and dangerous to others around them. They may behave in bizarre ways, perhaps by spending all their money or directing traffic naked. The mental effects of fluoxetine treatment have been discussed in several psychiatric reports
Akathisia. As noted, people may suffer from a variety of side effects when the central nervous system is overstimulated. Studies show that two effects of overstimulation–akathisia and agitation–are experienced by some people who take fluoxetine (the chemical name for Prozac).
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November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Aldous Huxley wrote …
Aldous Huxley wrote of the Brave New World where we all lived in artificial bliss. Taking “soma” to achieve happiness.
This day is quite close, self medication of legal drugs to escape reality.
If not that then alcohol, illegal drugs like exstasy. The numbing down has begun.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
u all just need to …
u all just need to smoke a joint of a good sativa bud!
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Agreed, my life has …
Agreed, my life has improved along with my thoughts, actions, and complete outlook on life.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
ive been on it for …
ive been on it for almost a month now and ive been having some awful nightmares, things I would never normally dream, and they are always so vivid and disturbing. x.x also loss of appetite, and sleeping is difficult at times as well.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
My anxiety and …
My anxiety and depression were out of control, without the administration of Fluoxetine, I would have taken my own life. This is a superb medication.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I also read that …
I also read that prozac can cause nerve and brain damage, stifle the creativity, permanent neurochemical changes, baldess, apathy and impotence.
Be really careful.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Some doctor …
Some doctor prescribe me fluoxetine to treat a minor depression and after some doses I got a mild mydriasis(my pupils looks bigger than before), I can’t sleep well at night(wake up at midnight), I have anxiety and strange nightmares. God I only hope the side effects and withdrawals don´t last forever. These things me off.
Antidepressants are dangerous drugs and shouldnt be prescribed as antigripals. Be sure of the side effects before taking any medication.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
you took it for 3 …
you took it for 3 months with all of those side effects? you should lose your license
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Read Explaining …
Read Explaining colours to a blind man. Not only will it enlighten many as to what living with a mental illness is like, it also gives comfort to those sufferers who think there is no hope and that they are alone. It is very informative, sometimes shocking but also very funny in parts. All in all, a good read and highly recommended
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Gun Rights taken if …
Gun Rights taken if you use drugs prescribed to you.
Psychiatry is a political tool.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
one must most …
one must most importantly consider the adverse effects of substance use on different people, and how we do not have a universal response. For some, floxetine has worked miracles, for others it has destroyed. For this reason, states of psychosis/depression and mental disorders are the most difficult to treat with a degree of certainty.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Prozac is the …
Prozac is the easiest SSRI to withdrawal from due to its long half life.Actually its the best antidepressant to go off of. Try getting off of Paxil or Effexor, you miss one dose and you know it right away! But by no means am I saying Prozac is the best antidepressant to take.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I was diagnosed w/ …
I was diagnosed w/ anxiety and depression. My psych gave me 10 mg of prozac a day for 3 months. It didn’t help me but made me worse. Nausea, confusion, antsy, and not to mention suicidal. The withdrawls was worst. The dr. Should lose his license.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I would be …
I would be interested to know a little more about how you arrived at your diagnosis of depression. Not to come off as a nosey, busy body, but I would very much like to know how long you have been on meds, what meds you have tried, and what other treatments you have tried, as well as your present situation. PM me if you’d like.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Yes Transcranial …
Yes Transcranial stimulation is the treatment.
You don’t have to be a doctor to post a treatment option here on youtube
but I do think that the best option for me is to continue the antidepressants I am taking. They work well with no problems.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
As for the ” …
As for the “treatment” options, I dare not say anything, as I am not a doctor. I will let you decide what is best for your circumstance.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
That would be …
That would be Transcranial stimulation. There have also been procedures with Vagus nerve stimulation(VNS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS), both done to real no effect, but neurosurgeons(vascular surgeons for VNS, as it involves the carotid sheath, a potentially risky procedure) don’t balk at such procedures, as they are very lucrative. Usually the patient is left with having to remain on drugs, as these devises don’t do anything clinically significant, but in limited cases of Parkinsons.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Well I am no expert …
Well I am no expert, and if you have studied it at university and after then you clearly know quite a lot.
All I can say is that in my experience antidepressants work and work well, and other treatments such as CBT or “shaking yourself out of it” or “thinking about something else” do not.
Antidepressants have given me my life back.
Can you suggest an alternative treatment for the condition that I could try out? I’m open to ideas of course.
How about Magneto cranial stimulation?
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Sorry, but the …
Sorry, but the scans are at a macroanatomical level and say nothing about how behaviours are manifested. I can have trouble with dealing with the way my life has turned out, be poor, and loveless, and show “colour” changes through CT scanning. This does not mean I have a diseased brain, as psychiatrists and pharmaceuticals would like me to believe. Depression is not a disease, and treated as such, shows little responsiveness to many individuals. Placebo effect and caring for one can ammeiliorate
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Read my reply. …
Read my reply. Brain scan studies have also been done to “prove” that individuals with ADD have discernible and pronounced irregularities in glucose uptake in their prefrontal lobe areas(as per use of radioactively tagged glucose). If you do some digging, as I have-both at university and through peer research-you will find that these studies were also flawed. Google this, and you will see that CT scans, and the like, are not conclusive, and only point to metabolic shifts, not behaviour.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
And now, you have …
And now, you have the potential of compounded side effects, which then, might necessitate the introduction of other drugs. Such is the cascading effects of polypharmacalogical interventions. The big pharmas will love you.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Those findings are …
Those findings are inconclusive, flawed, and given the state of the science, do not prove anything. BTW, you are arguing two incompatible sides to your gospel: from a gross anatomical and cell level argument, simultaneously. Any study would call this a confounded study. Again, the science is still speculative, but what would I know, I only have post graduate work in neuroscience.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Nonsense. …
Nonsense. Scientific researchers have done scans of the brain of depressed individuals and found reduced brain activity – a physical characteristic. Since serotonin is responsible for communication between neurons in the brain, the role of SSRI antidepressants is clear in that they have the effect of increasing the amount of serotonin in the right places, and this has the effect of increasing the communication between brain cells – this effect can be seen in brain scans.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
o im scared …
o im scared now i was on 2 prozac pills a day and the docs switched it to 1 prozac and one efferexin and 1 aderax to help me sleep at night.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
No. And as I have …
No. And as I have educated myself over this chemical imbalance debate, I have also found that psychiatry has a lot to answer for. I could go into exhaustive detail as to why I decided neuroleptic drugs are no good, but that would be too long a story. I suggest you read up on Szasz, especially his “The myth of mental illness”, which is still timely in its insights.