From the other DXM thread:
For the record, I said "every
other day," not every day. That is, I've been taking DXM one day out of every two (
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_every_other_day_mean). I can understand the confusion, since "every other day" is considered slang.
Please, there is no need to get cheeky with me, clearly I know what every other day means. I passed over that part I will admit, I apologize for making the minor mistake.
I've gone and done a bit of research and have come across a number of sources claiming at low (coincidentally 120mg) doses DXM acts as an SSRI of sorts. I had heard about this before vaguely. Nonetheless, my reasoning for being against it was what you presented to the thread, the fact that you were having adverse effects.. and I guess I'll address that partially with the rest of your post in this thread..
Fuck, no he doesn't. The dude doesn't even work for the county anymore, and the only doctor I've seen lately has been my family practitioner.
I'd don't really trust psychiatrists/psychologists. My problems cannot be cured (or even properly handled) by modern psychiatry anyway, so all I can hope to expect is to get prescribed more medications to treat my symptoms.
So you're self prescribing yourself drugs because you say others have not worked at all (lexapro and other iirc from the other thread), and at the same time, you are/were seeing a psych and not telling him of your drug use, who then prescribed you something else. You seem like a somewhat intelligent guy but you're aware of how drugs can interact with each other right?
You bring up that you don't really trust psychologists/psychiatrists, and with the fact that you're withholding your drug usage (recreational or 'self prescribed' leads me to believe you're likely withholding a lot of other relevant information to your situation from them as well. You seem to denounce modern psychiatry because you feel it cannot cure you. Well no, psychiatric problems cannot be "cured" in the same sense as a flu or a broken leg can be cured no. You mention you have depression, perhaps severe and what you believe to be "non-treatable."
I question why you seem to think you can treat it on your own better? Your entire logic is an affront to the whole of not just modern psychiatry but psychiatry in general. If you want help finding the solution for an equation, how can you expect to get the proper solution when you hand the person willing to help you an incomplete equation?
I've been where you are, and I still end up there myself. I've been on an antidepressant before and personally I felt it helped for a while, but things became
worse over time.. not in the sense my depression got worse, but side effects and other shit from my life. I understand how disillusioned you can feel with the whole of the psychiatric profession, it is not cut and dry like other professions and it can feel at times like they are blindly guessing at what to do.. but if you don't give them a proper picture to work with they cant help so much.. if you are 100% honest and give your doctor as much honest information as possible they can guide you towards the best possible treatments.
Treatment is the key word, they are treatments.. they are not cures. Another key thing here is the fact that no drug, no substance is going to instantly change things. A huge part of therapy is learning to change your behaviours and learning to find triggers and other things for your depression, learning how to avoid learned responses and change those. Im in correspondence with a few psychologists on other boards and they are quite often incredibly frustrated by patients who just want to get drugged up and not put in any work or effort to attempt to fix their situations.
When it comes to depression and the likes drugs are mostly used as a catalyst for change, they can help you get out of bed and they can help you begin to see things from a different perspective to build new pathways for feelings and emotions from input stimuli. Nothing is going to change if you don't put in the effort to change, and from the sounds of your post you really aren't looking to change all that much.. you're not willing to relinquish any form of control it seems like, so you have bigger issues than depression. You need to start being honest with yourself and honest to those you seek to get help from if you really want things to change.
Good advice, bad advice. You are essentially telling me to discontinue the use of a psychiatric medication which I've been using for over 3 months. DXM might not be officially recognized as an antidepressant, but it does have AD properties, and it is unwise to stop an antidepressant cold-turkey. I will continue to taper my dose until the brain zaps abate. Once that happens I'll wait a little longer, and use larger doses much more infrequently (i.e. on special occasions only).
I said to stop using the substance if you're really noticing horrible effects from it (and I would consider whatever feels "fatal" to be a horrible effect worth eliminating the drug for). This did not mean stop using entirely immediately cold turkey.
Honestly man, I'm not trying to be a douche or be anti-dxm because I enjoy robotripping once in a while myself, but when you come in here saying you're having feelings which you describe as fatal.. it just seems fucking completely obvious to me that you should stop using no matter what the substance is, be it a psychotropic drug or the milk you drink, and if you have to taper, then taper.
