Why do people stay on antidepressants if it makes them feel apathetic? - correct me if I'm using apathetic wrong, don't forget to call me a nigger for it.

Ex Cir's patent (pending) method for curing depression:

- Conceive of an irrational and overbearing fear of personal failure
- Let this feeling stew until it's all-encompassing
- Do nothing
- Allow this tsunami of dread to swamp your soul
- Succumb to hopelessness and despair
- Do nothing
- Do nothing
- Do nothing
- Realize you've been drowning for years now
- Consider roping
- Puss out
- See a doctor
- Take your prescription of Venlafaxine home and have a complete meltdown
- Three weeks in hospital, heavy antipsychotics
- "Improvement"
- Do nothing
- Do nothing
- Apathy reigns
- Stop the meds
- Do nothing but feel a bit better
- Years pass
- Fear returns, hopelessness and despair return full-force
- Burn life down for fifth time
- Back on the antipsychotics
- Do nothing
- Life goes on
- Drop the meds again, can't live on them
- Frustration peaks
- Consider roping for the twentieth time
- Puss out again
- Allow fear and hopelessness to destroy life for the tenth time
- Sick of this shit
- Question personal philosophy, decide nihilism is fatal
- Find God, decide I'm more afraid of Him than myself
- Reassess history of personal failure
- Realize I'm not that special and nothing so terrible has happened yet
- Start speaking my mind instead of being a little bitch
- Embrace failure as a learning opportunity
- Start to learn how to live with reality, not deny it
- Start to feel better
- Fuck things up, catastrophize for three days, get over it (repeat this often)
- Still feeling better
- Start to feel happy
- Start putting life together
- Find KiwiFarms

- Reconsider roping :tomgirl: *

Something like that, anyway. Hope you start to feel better @RetardedCat, just remember that the only way out of this is through it. Whatever's got you fucked up has to be faced down and conquered, otherwise you're going to continue to cower and hide from it until you're dead, one way or another.


*user Exigent Circumcisions accepts no liability in the event that this method burns your shit down.
Use at own risk.
Do not mix with children or other dependents.
Do not mix with atheism.
Keep a bottle of antipsychotics on hand in case of emergency.
Be safe and have fun!​
 
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I just want to say that I empathize a lot with the OP.
When I was a teenager, I was dealing with a lot of shit both at school and at home. My parents blamed all the family's problems on me and got me put on pills. And those didn't "cure" me, so other doctors put me on even more pills.

So now I've been on pills for more than half my life. It's mostly apathy with me, but I still do feel some negative emotions like fear or anger. Strangely, I sometimes have dreams where I feel positive emotions again. Like getting really excited for a new movie to come out, or falling in love.

I used to be an extremely creative person. I wrote poetry, fanfics, movie scripts, drew comics, and dabbled in making videos. I don't do those things anymore, and I don't think I even could if I wanted to. I just feel like, "What's the point?"

This post isn't made for pity-me points. I'm just warning people not to go on these pills unless absolutely necessary, such as a seriously suicidal person or a really nutty person like TempleOS guy.

I'd like to go off of my pills, but as I get older, bad shit starts happening in my life more and more often where I feel like I need them. It never seems to be the "right time" to quit.

Locomotive Derangement said:
I've reread this thread and found that most of the people who posted in it are even more fucking wrecked than I am. What the hell is happening in our society?
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I do actually believe Western Society is very sick and we're all feeling the burden of it. I've been fairly open about the fact I'm on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds and you wouldn't believe how many other people tell me they are also on them. I'd guess that at least 50% of the population are on these pills.
 
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It's kind of weird that one of the side effects of anti-depressants is thoughts of suicide. For me, feeling apathetic is a better feeling than the feeling of regret after you lash out at a loved one.
 
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