Side effects - SSRI's and Psychotic/Manic/Suicidal Feelings

[izzy31]

Has anyone else besides me experienced psychotic episodes with effexor? And I don't mean, "does anyone feel a little weird on effexor", I mean has anyone gone totally insane from effexor - I have. It's not fun at all, and it pisses me off when not a single doctor mentioned anything about it possibly seriously fucking with my head.

It's a complete change in perception -

- Everyone is conspiring against me
- no thoughts of suicide, but plenty homocidal thoughts
- kill, kill, kill!!!
- "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones causes crying for some reason

So has anyone experienced anything like this due to anti-depressants?

[Lehendakari]

Psycotic reactions are very common with SxRI. These drugs should be banned in my opinion as there are better alternatives. The problem is that it's a lot of money to ban.

I remember reading a report in which someone told her mother to leave cause he was having temtations of killing her. The mother locked herself in a closet and called the cops. The individual started punching everything around hard and broke his hand completely but didn't feel pain.

He did it after taking a single dose of an AD don't remember which. I'll try to find the report

[izzy31]

I remember a year ago when I was first put on the stuff I punched straight through a door in the house - I was confused at the time, and I couldnt figure out why i did that.

It was on impulse but it still took me an hour to realize something might be wrong.

[Alicia]

This thread is exactly what swia was talking about at the institute place she was in , oh no side effects they said. hmmmm... Swia has these sorta thoughts all the time. she dont mean to have them she just does.

But know she is very reluctant to take these kinda meds, she will stick to benzos thou, when per-scribed that is rather then take the other ones.

[Donmeka]

Originally Posted by Alicia

This thread is exactly what swia was talking about at the institute place she was in , oh no side effects they said. hmmmm... Swia has these sorta thoughts all the time. she dont mean to have them she just does.

But know she is very reluctant to take these kinda meds, she will stick to benzos thou, when per-scribed that is rather then take the other ones.

SWIM is the same way, he was given an SSRI and felt it did nothing. plus not only from what swims read but his personal experiences have caused a high dislike for ANY SxRI medication.

last time SWIM went to physician ADD/ADHD was brought up and he gave a sample of strattera(which swim did not find out till research that it is an SxRI) which is an SNRI which deals on neuropinephrine instead of seratonin. this got swim a bit angry and decided not to even touch it anf threw it away.

SWIM is also presribed benzos and as long as SWIM steerss from addiction they help him amazingly

[Nagognog2]

Strattera was developed as an anti-depressant as it is chemically nearly identical to such as prozac & paxil. These were soon found to cause suicidal ideation in children. The strattera has side-effects not wanted in an SSRI anti-depressant so, not to waste their money developing it, they released it for ADHD! For kids. And no warning about causing suicidal (and homicidal) ideation!

Can you smell a lawsuit?

[nanobrain]

nobody knows it better
infact, nobody knows it at all
the mechanics of transmitter jacking
pharm-harm-entanglement, synaptic stacking -
AFAIK, what rises must most certainly fall

2 cents of advice
for those with eyes:
gett offa them horrible S/NRIs
and stop buying into the mindmanglers' lies -
big pharmas, the culprit will not pay the price
when data supressed begins to arise
effects 'not revealed' in clinical trials
placebo, confounds and cash skewed the dials

and all you suspected is actually true -
stochastic conclusions Herr MD drew
when scripting them toxins as next panacea
new, safe, nonaddictive, in short - just for for you

by this time the flattened affect will reduce
ongoing desire to live - whats the use
when everything matters about the same
the people you loved and the ones you thought lame,
the sex bit - ah, who gives a fuck
but hey now, the TV, lets whatch some Matlcok..

so listen, you, victim, get offa that horse
else mental / emotinal state will get worse
and if the cold nightmare you live
causes you more and more grief,
this dream that you stumble through's
not to your liking,
consider - it may not be yours...but the choice always is.

empower yourself to learn enough to enable making own informed health-related decisions, its your bodymind. i bet Bongo's donuts you lived in it longer than anyone you care to consult, even the penultimately illustrious Dr. Doolittle who, as we all know, knows it all.

p.s. suicide solves nothing 99.999% of the time and will result in a regressive incarnation where you will indeed have to work through the same karmic load and wonder about that low level chronic depresssion...

learning is hard, having to do it over is harder.

i speak of ALL above matters from personal experience.

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Wonderful Nano!

[Nagognog2]

Or take some super-glue and glue out the word "QUACK" on your doctor's office door with paxil, prozac, zoloft...pills.

[nanobrain]

hey,now that the first-gen RI's - paxil, prozac, etc are being phased out due to 'side' effects and newer products that need asellin to recompense ~$8E8 spent on development and appovals, guess what is now widely marketed and available for your ill-tempered and depressed (betcha didn't even know he was, didja? tisk, tisk) canine / feline friend?

[Nagognog2]

Puppy-Uppers & Doggie-Downers.

There has already been a news article on some quack in the midwest (USA) who was prescribing prozac to pooches.

[nanobrain]

down under, its full page glossy ads

[Nagognog2]

Soon we shall see dogs hanging from trees by their collars.

[darawk]

It makes me wonder if some of these side effects aren't designed into the medications. It seems there is always a "new generation" of pills ready to come out right when patents start to expire. And right when that happens the old ones are instantly demonized. In 5 or 6 years I bet we'll all be being told that Prozac was an evil drug that did all sorts of nasty things, more so even than it did. And why? Because the same pharmaceutical company that brought you prozac will have a new, safer, better alternative!

[Ruby]

Swim told me that she was put on an ssri as a teenager, and at 30 is on about 10 different prescribed meds. So she now has a bigger problem than she would have had. Swim has attempted suicide and is now a prescription addict enabled by online pharmacies but mainly her Dr.

[ojos_de_brujo]

Swim has read this post starting off knowing how bad AD are, then ROFL over some witty, completely to-the-point posts, then godsmacked about the next post. So many feelings, Swim would not have had any feelings at all on SSRI's.

[BobTheGreat]

Swim was wondering what the standard practice was when one goes into a manic/suicial state on AD drugs. Swim had the manic side effects on Lexapro. His theropist kept him on the drug for another couple months until he finally said fuck it this isnt working even though the doc wanted to push on with higher doses. Swim dropped the doc(for multiple reasons re: if he when back it would be with a duck.) and began just seeing his GP(for chronic pain but when in Rome). Last visit when he heard that the doc kept me on lexapro he gave me a wtf look and said he should have taken me off it(more or less). This was also swim's impression but really question the doc since he has years more experience than swim. Swim fits the mold of someone bipolar fwiw. Anyway swim was just looking for more info if any swiy has gone through this or knows more insight than swim.

[bloot]

Someone should not be on just anti-depressants if they are having manic outbreaks. The thing with anti-depressants is that they are pushing in one direction ( up ). Whilst if someone is having symptoms of bi-polar disorder ( bi-polar depression, as opposed to uni-polar depression ) they are having moods of depression as well as manic states.. Using an atypical anti-psychotic such as Seroquel would help a lot because it pushes down and up at the same time, leveling out such person's mind.