Antidepressants - Do NOT Treat Such Lightly.

[rhonda13000]

Some of us are dealing with co-morbid depressive or ADHD issues in addition to TS.

In my case, I am dealing with both.

I know that I have an organic serotonin issue yet I have in the past, wanting to free myself of medication [SSRI - Zoloft] and 'feeling' like I could do so, ceased from taking it.

The inevitable result of doing so was pain, followed by a resumption of administration of the same medication.

I can be a real idiot sometimes; I have repeatedly proven this over the course of my life.   

During the latest cycle of this stupidity - well, pseudo-stupidity - I stopped taking my medication because of a well known anti-orgasmic side effect; as I had stated elsewhere, I wanted to 're-map' the erogenous zones following the surgery in Dec 2006.

The re-mapping went very well, but again as I had stated elsewhere, I was then hit with an unprecedented concomitance of multiple high-magnitude stressors. That couldn't have happened at a worse time and it nearly killed me.

Of a truth, a hard lesson learned: I simply cannot ever stop taking anti-depressant medication due to the organic etiology of my own condition, for any reason.

Some days you may think, "I feel good and have been feeling good for a while now. Let me see if I can rid myself of this anti-depressant."

Don't do it. It's a 'sucker hole' {pilot jargon for a solution which ostensibly looks great, but in reality is a trap].

I would also suggest that this is even more dangerous for TS people, given the nominally higher stresses encountered by us, in the course of our lives.

This nearly killed me, people. Do not treat anti-depressant medication lightly.

My motive for telling you this...[deep breath, feeling a tear or two trying to fall] is that of love and concern. I do not want to see anybody experience what I did or worse, learn of their demise at their own hand as a function of what I just described.

[TheBattler]

Oh Rhonda,

This issue is close to my heart. I was thinking on the weekend of not listening to my Shrink and slowing reducing my dose (the shrink has increaed my dose). But then I thought of how I was in January and they day I thought nothing else beside transistion and suicide. That scared me enough to continue my Meds for the time being and listen to the doctor.

Alice

[rhonda13000]

Oh Rhonda,

This issue is close to my heart. I was thinking on the weekend of not listening to my Shrink and slowing reducing my dose (the shrink has increaed my dose). But then I thought of how I was in January and they day I thought nothing else beside transistion and suicide. That scared me enough to continue my Meds for the time being and listen to the doctor.

Alice

You understand well, do you not, sweetheart?

It's a hard lesson, is it not? 

[TheBattler]

Just the thought of going back to January was enough. I did not want to learn the hard way.

Alice

[rhonda13000]

Just the thought of going back to January was enough. I did not want to learn the hard way.

Alice

[recalling the horror and the agony...]

Thereby reinforcing my perception that the very worst pain that a human being can endure is not of the body, it is of the mind....

"The HORROR..." ('Apocalypse Now')

[Rashelle]

Anemonie, anti depressants are not necessarily for everyone, and each one has different affects on different people. For myself before I went fulltime I had reached my low where in spite of being on high doses of three different antidepressants I chose to die rather then keep existing. That attempt failed and brought me to the decision to actively get back into transition which resulted in srs etc. Whereas I am no longer on antidepressants other then trazadone to sleep, I did watch over to make sure my ex g/f took hers and I do watch over a friend of mine to make sure she takes hers both of which would liable to become suicidal without the antidepressants. So in short some need to take and stay on them due to chemical imbalances in the brain whereas others only need them situationally. For me it was situational, for the two others close to me it is a permanent issue.
Hugsssss Rhonda and Alice.
Rashelle