[TT]

Why would I be on anti depressants just because I know about peak oil. Certainly it is a challenge to try to insulate myself and my family from the problems I foresee coming in the future. But it is not depressing.

Regardless of my desires I can only do so much for the future. I have moved back to the country - after retiring to the city. We now have 5 productive acres, an energy efficient home, alternative heating and cooking, our own food production, our own independant water supply and a very relaxed and economical lifestyle.

Even though I know harder times are coming, I can't get depressed about it. Nobody ever promised me eternal happiness and an easy life.

[willjones4]

I have tried a few antidepressants. Most had the zombie effect, some did nothing. I have better luck with the ganja. I dont drink because my father died 11/1 at age 56 from cirrhosis of the liver from it. I do believe the herb is one of the safer mind alterers out there.

[mmasters]

Been there done that.

When I was younger I had a brief period where I went mental, ya know hormones, parents relocated when I was a teen, bad influences, etc...

I went through about 20 different antidepressants, 10-20 other psychotropic drugs, mental institutions, got involved in all kinds of street drugs, psychedelics, dropped out of high school, etc...

Then I said fuck all this shit, got my act together did hard manual labor for a few years, worked my way back into college, financed my own college education through day trading in the stock market, worked my way through the corporate system and now I'm in the top 1% salary range of all people my age in New York City.

I've been from the bottom of society to the top in about a 10 year span, while I don't regret the antidepressants I would never do them again, they are a trap and as another poster said they just "flatline" or neutralize your emotions, making you a zombie of sorts.

The thing that's made all the difference for me is the quest to find out who I am as a person. I accomplished that through years of exploring my mind through psychology, psychedelics, and years of studying human nature as well as my quest to hook up with hot women and the great school of hard knocks.

Best bet is to find yourself, take full responsibility for your life and it's ridiculous what you can accomplish.

PO is a challenge and not without great opportunities...

[IanC]

I'm a Physician Assistant in an Emergency Room. Along with lots of minor trauma and infectious disease, we get sent the rest of the "low acuity" cases. Some of these are truly, clinically depressed people who need help. These folks have serious neurological imbalances and something like Prozac might be needed. HOwever, I see a bunch of people who have miserable lives, and have had miserable lives for many years, can't take it anymore and want to feel better. They practically beg me to prescribe Prozac to give them an out. I almost never do. When they are in crisis, the last thing they need is a pill - it won't work! I send them to talk to a counsellor or other mental health professional.

I think it's sad how disconnected we are, not only from supportive, nourishing human contact, but from the essentials of our own wellbeing. We're constantly groomed to believe that buying a product will improve us somehow. The consumerist conquest of our minds is almost total.

As to the ganja - BRING IT ON! Medically proven to be way safer and much more effective than most products from big pharma. It grows like a week and would be amazingly cheap to produce. It's a gift from the goddess. Any wonder why there is such a jihad against it?

-IanC
Portland, OR

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

I was until I found peak oil

[Ludi]

Yep, I'm on Effexor. I'm bipolar. Without antidepressant/antianxiety I become mostly nonfunctional. The future looks grim.

[gego]

I take vitamins and read the posts on this site which many times give me a good laugh.

I am too optimistic and too mean to get depressed.

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'Y')ep, I'm on Effexor. I'm bipolar. Without antidepressant/antianxiety I become mostly nonfunctional. The future looks grim.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'Y')ep, I'm on Effexor. I'm bipolar. Without antidepressant/antianxiety I become mostly nonfunctional. The future looks grim.

[mmasters]

I love being weird.

Who would want to aspire to normalcy anyhow?

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'Y')ep, I'm on Effexor. I'm bipolar. Without antidepressant/antianxiety I become mostly nonfunctional. The future looks grim.

[ChicknLittle]

If you've never experienced clinical depression you have no idea what you are saying when you say you would never take antidepressants. If you have never tried to converse or rationalize with a person who is in a mania, or delusional, you don't know why anti-psychotics are invaluable and (sometimes) necessary. Antidepressants aren't just for "blue" moods... they are for depression, which is a disease state with suffering and consequences. http://www.mental-health-today.com/dep/dsm.htm

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ChicknLittle', 'I')f you've never experienced clinical depression you have no idea what you are saying when you say you would never take antidepressants. If you have never tried to converse or rationalize with a person who is in a mania, or delusional, you don't know why anti-psychotics are invaluable and (sometimes) necessary. Antidepressants aren't just for "blue" moods... they are for depression, which is a disease state with suffering and consequences. http://www.mental-health-today.com/dep/dsm.htm

[ChicknLittle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I') don't think anyone would disagree with you. The question I had for Ludi involved diagnosis, more than anything. It seems to me that people are being labelled psychotic, who aren't. That's wrong.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

I often wonder how much of psychiatric illness is actually induced by our crappy eating habits, processed food and soil depletion. Theres a book I read recently called The Mood Cure... and re-read and re-read.

One of my girls was diagnosed as being ADHD, I was reading the report of the doctors findings this summer while watching her zone in to the tv, sitting very still and quietly and seeing her twin who was trying to watch the same show, squirm, twitch and talk 5 miles an hour. And I thought that if they call the calm one ADHD what would they diagnose the active one as....

So three weeks ago, I put them both on L-tyrosine like this book said and the active ones teacher reported amazing changes in my daughters behaviour... makes you wonder.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'I') often wonder how much of psychiatric illness is actually induced by our crappy eating habits, processed food and soil depletion. Theres a book I read recently called The Mood Cure... and re-read and re-read.

One of my girls was diagnosed as being ADHD, I was reading the report of the doctors findings this summer while watching her zone in to the tv, sitting very still and quietly and seeing her twin who was trying to watch the same show, squirm, twitch and talk 5 miles an hour. And I thought that if they call the calm one ADHD what would they diagnose the active one as....

So three weeks ago, I put them both on L-tyrosine like this book said and the active ones teacher reported amazing changes in my daughters behaviour... makes you wonder.

[Kingcoal]

This girl needs Tryptophan to keep her sanity. God I'd love to be her dealer.

[threadbear]

She could so kick your ass, Kingcoal.

[Kingcoal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'S')he could so kick your ass, Kingcoal.

[Licho]

I'm taking high overdoses of fresh carrot and sex. Does it count?