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Are people taking too many drugs
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Dec 10, 2023 | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
Drugs are usually reverted to for clinical (not as much situational) depression because psychs consider clinical much more serious, suspecting disruption of neurotransmitters.
Of course psychiatrists are naturally prescription-happy so that has a lot to do with so much prescribing.
Psychologists are not an option for me without coverage, so for myself it is covered prescriptions or rot.
It reads like you are clinical? I have long-term major clinical depression with suicidal ideation and wow, like yourself complex PTSD diagnosed also.
I do not know if psychology can help me. Depression has been with me some 55 years, helping ruin my life. Other diagnoses help ruin also, so psychologists are reluctant to take me on. It seems prescriptions are all there is for me with psychology being unaffordable.
Since you are sensitive to drugs, my opinion is you are smart trying to avoid them, but I was "severe," essentially become completely unfunctional in life so I took what they gave --- most of which indeed I stopped for side effects. The rest did not really help me.
Tryptophan (l-tryptophan) may be the only possible option for you, having natural origin as a natural bodily amino acid that makes serotonin for the brain. It is healthily taken by the gram. It at least regulates me and is the only thing available that helps me.
I wish you all the best 🧡 getting free of this hellacious, pernicious disease and disabler depression.
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