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What's Your Favorite Antidepressant or Anti-Anxiety Med?

By Michael Musto, Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 1:00PM
Comments (41)
Categories: Drugs

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No one has to go through life with angst anymore, unless you're disturbed by co-pays, side effects, and an over-reliance on artifical highs.

And I am, honey!

A few years ago, I tried Zoloft and almost jumped out a window. It gave me aching fingers, headaches, dizzy spells, spasms, and no relief whatsoever!

Klonopin was more effective, but it basically just wipes you out for a huge chunk of time, so the only reason you can't be depressed is because you've totally passed out!

I hit gold for a while with Neurontin, which was lovely and uplifting, but now I'm free of meds, preferring to greet life head on and just deal.

But I know I'm in the vast minority, everyone else finding salvation in a tiny bottle with bad-tasting chemical friends. So what works best for curing YOUR stress levels?

Paxil?

Prozac?

Wellbutrin?

Lexapro?

Xanax?

Valium?

God, just listing all these drugs is giving me a breakdown!

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Comments (41)

kat says:

Paxil Paxil Paxil Paxil

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 1:05PM
sick queen says:

They all suck and they make for bad Broadway musicals.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 1:06PM
Soutrhern Dave says:

10 mm of Valium and 40 mm of Celexa and I'm a doll!

Provigil when I need a lift!

"Gotta get off, gonna get off, have to get ..."

"I'll plant my own tree!"

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 1:42PM
trankie tessie says:

Valium is sort of the Coke Classic of the genre and it still works for me. I'm afraid to try anything else for fear of messing up my pleasant buzz.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 1:56PM
CMG says:

Zoloft is definitely special.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 1:58PM
richard says:

i know -- you'd think it would be like "valley of the dolls" rather than "love at first sleight".

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 2:10PM
Beulah Furburger says:

Paxil, honey... with a Marijuana chaser.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 2:16PM
Jonster says:

Cymbalta and a Xanax. Breakfast is served!

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 2:32PM
Kneeling O'Whora says:

I don't do dolls any more. As Helen Lawson once said to me,

"They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me."

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 3:09PM
Miss Cristal D. Chiles says:


To Whom it May Concern,

I prefer to be medication free. I took Prozac and got in trouble.My shot of Haldol made me pick up 30 pounds. It seems as if psych medications give me episodes.I try
my best to take herbal meds for my safety.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 3:14PM
Otto says:

I take LEXAPRO for depression, for me it was the best antidepressant experience in 12 years.

XANAX (Alprazolam) for anxiety.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 3:29PM
Cha Cha Walters says:

None of the above. That shit is horrible for you. Not to get all Tom Cruisey, but good nutrition, exercise and something fulfilling in your life are the best antidepressants.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 3:42PM
Eve says:

Zoloft, Klonopin and a beta blocker for maximum stress reduction. The beta blocker really helps when you get physical symptoms like shakiness.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 3:48PM
Mr. Natural says:

Ganja from Jamaica
Thaistick from Thailand
Blonde hash from Lebanon
Black hash from Afghanistan
Peyote
Opium
keep it natural!

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 5:13PM
Abraxas says:

LEXAPRO

3 years now.


Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 6:57PM
Nancy Reagan says:

"JUST SAY NO!"

PS: DITTO to Cha Cha and CHEERS!!!
let us drink to many more seasons of 'THE VIEW'.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 7:19PM
Hezaa says:

One year I was on Prozac and Xanax.. Just the other night I was remembering how I used to have hallucinations upon waking of my ceiling being covered in spiders. No really! Every time I woke up from a nap, the ceiling appeared to be covered with spiders!

I'm content now to just be bitter and misanthropic, without all the spiders and chemically induced monotony...

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 8:08PM
Hortensia Redcock says:

KlonnieGirls @ 2 mg are essential. I never go anywhere without them. The less you use them, the better they work. Oxycodone 10mg/APAP aka 747s (for long trips to far away places) are lovely to have on hand for special occasions. They're wonderful mood elevators. Like Judy, I've got emergency supplies of both of these stashed all over.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 9:04PM
Jenn says:

venlafaxine and depakote for the depression and anxiety. trazodone to help me sleep through the night. and clonopin for bad anxiety attacks or obsessive thinking.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 11:02PM
Heather says:

My favorite is definitely:

Paxil - When I feel like a little bit of Diabetes. Hey, everyone gets a craving every now and then, eh?
Prozac - If I don't feel suicidal enough. That usually helps.
Wellbutrin - For when I need to lose the weight gained from Paxil, of course!
Lexapro - Nothing like a good drug that has previously been the subject of a lawsuit.
Xanax - For when I need to kill someone.
Valium - To relax at night. I usually ignore the fact that I feel like a zombie shortly afterwards.

This blog, or forum or whatever, seriously couldn't be more welcoming to drug addicts, or people who simply do not understand the job of RESEARCHING the drugs they take. You really should, people. It could save your life.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 23 2009 @ 11:48PM
east coast cynic says:

Right now, my antidepressant and anti-anxiety med is solitude, or pretty much any time I leave work for the day.

And yes speaking of bad broadway musicals, Next to Normal wasn't all that--overwrought as all get out.

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 24 2009 @ 2:31AM
K. says:

Sacred is the black liquid of salvation... Coffee, and it's bounty of Caffeine.

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 24 2009 @ 10:49AM
Tito Alba says:

A long walk works wonders. Tried every thing under the Sun and the long walk has a way of sorting out an unsettled mind.

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 24 2009 @ 6:08PM
cjay says:

The free shit I get from Indian Health Service!

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 24 2009 @ 8:21PM
David says:

weed

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 24 2009 @ 9:51PM
Pain Doc says:

As a pain specialist I see the whole range of human psychopathology come through my doors daily. It never ceases to amaze me how many people roaming around out there can't cope without chemicals. It's sad really. Unfortunately life is too complicated for many people to navigate without developing severe, chronic problems. The way our society is currently structured, it's never going to get better either. I'm glad I get by with daily exercise and a happy marriage. I wish more people could have the same luck as me.

Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 24 2009 @ 10:36PM
Lily says:

Hubby is on 200 mg zoloft, 90mg cymbalta, thorazine, klonopin, and ambien cr. Hopefully, this meds will kick in soon.

Posted On: Sunday, Oct. 25 2009 @ 1:04AM
Roscoe Fatanyatz says:

Most of the people posting above are
NO BETTER than scumbag street junkies
injecting heroin.
Fucking cowards who can't deal with life's
ups and down without a crutch.
Don't think you're a junkie?
Trying stopping your paxil or zoloft cold turkey.
Life got you down try jumping off the roof of your apartment building, just look first so you don't land on some innocent citizen going about their business.

Posted On: Sunday, Oct. 25 2009 @ 12:35PM
sundaymorning says:

music, I guess.
the series of replies to this post, despite the attempts at camp, wit and devil may care attitude, are funereal. I think we're all quite lost.
WHAT HAPPENED TO REBELLION?

Posted On: Sunday, Oct. 25 2009 @ 3:45PM
Jock4Jocks says:

Prayer. Meditation. Kick boxing. Swimming. Scuba diving. Jogging. Biking. Bashing RepugnantCons.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 12:21AM
big daddy says:

paxil and methadone rings my bell........wit sum weed 2

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 2:52AM
gjk415 says:

Prazosin. This is a generic for Minipress (an antihypertensive that's also prescribed for PTSD, but is seems to work quite well for garden variety anxiety & depression) AND for Flomax (for prostate hypertrophy). I never was hypertensive, but this generic provided by the mail order pharmacy covers several bases very well.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 4:18AM
Nonplussed says:


How about a set of balls and a backbone?

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 5:42AM
OhioOrrin says:

PBR & a shot of jameson.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 10:12AM
Anonymous says:

If I'm going someplace where I don't want people to smell weed on me, then one Xanax and two Excedrin is the way to go.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 11:22AM
Anonymous says:

Like the old song says: "I'd rather feel like shit than be full of shit."

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 11:24AM
daho says:

Paxil worked wonders. Then it made me fat and I got depressed again...

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 2:21PM
Cookie cutter says:

@ Jock4Jocks

I love your anger and violent hobbies. And it sounds like you have lots of spandex...

Drinks?

Sincerely,
Cookie Cutter

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 8:31PM
La Grand Puta says:

some really good endorphin producing sex is the best drug out there. If that doesn't work then there is no hope for you.
A little huffa puffa of ganga can help mellow things out. I'm glad those chemicals are available as I know several people who desperately need them.
I'll take a bottle of Veuve Clicquot and a Sergeant's staff any time.

Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 27 2009 @ 3:32AM
DUBBLEX says:

just started taking Trazodone. They gave in to me after i came out of the psychiatric ward. I have a lot of trouble sleeping and can easily stay up for a full day and still be full of energy. I am bi polar. Over the years I have taken several antidepressants at least 5. At first Tazodone worked like a charm and I was able to sleep for a full night and not wake up. I think now it is starting to wear off and maybe my psychiatrist will up the dose from the 50 mg i am taking now. Been having a really hard time.

Posted On: Sunday, Nov. 8 2009 @ 12:16PM
Ray Ray says:

Quote: Roscoe Faytanyatz, Professional Douche

"Most of the people posting above are
NO BETTER than scumbag street junkies
injecting heroin.
Fucking cowards who can't deal with life's
ups and down without a crutch.
Don't think you're a junkie?
Trying stopping your paxil or zoloft cold turkey.
Life got you down try jumping off the roof of your apartment building, just look first so you don't land on some innocent citizen going about their business."

Wow, I am just amazed at how much of a judgmental prick you come off as. Paxil is no better than heroin? Is every mind altering substance equivalent to the most dangerous street drug there is? Compare the effects of Paxil to heroin, and you'll realize just how stupid you sound.

Just because psychotropic drugs are abused by some doesnt discount the thousands of studies that show that they can help those with chemical imbalances. Is it that you don't believe that things like Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder exist, or would you would rather just have those people running around unmedicated.

I don't know what kind of warped view you have on these people, but most live normal innocent lives if they get help. The dangerous ones are often those that do not seek help. Really, it's kind of funny that the real fucking coward is the one bashing people with serious problems over the internet.

PS: I am not on any of these meds but they have helped cure my sister, and ignorant assholes like you just piss me off.

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 16 2009 @ 3:56PM

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