Posted by violetdream on June 16, 2012, at 0:15:24
In reply to going off meds - finding doc for opiods or stims?, posted by violetdream on June 15, 2012, at 16:40:35
I hate that since people abuse some classes of medicine, they are made unavailable to those who really need them.
I have treatment resistant depression. I'm at the end of the treatment list when it comes to types of medication, other than opiates and amphetamine derivatives.
I don't want to be on medication anymore, and I don't want to be put on something that's going to take months to (probably not) work and titrate it up painfully slowly. The point of taking these "dangerous" medications is to help myself get OFF of medications. I'd go off completely, but I don't have the willpower or correct emotions to be able to do things for myself right now.
The only short term, quick mood boosting medicines I can think of are in classes of medicines that are abused. I don't know any other way to give myself the boost I need to continue healing myself without medication, other than using illegal street drugs, which kind of defeats the point.
While it's an unusual request that unfortunately most doctors are not going to agree to, I hope that anyone with my history would see that it's not at all an unreasonable one.
I've seen people here even prescribed things like ketamine to take at home - there are some doctors out there who prescribe unusual things.
Are there *any* other medicines that are not classically used as antidepressants/anti-psychotics/etc etc that give you a short boost of mood with the idea of coming off of it? That are not "dangerous"?
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