Posted by Jane D on May 20, 2001, at 1:06:45
In reply to Re: scary posts Dr. bob, posted by MorganW on May 15, 2001, at 11:47:27
I started using medication before all this information was available on the internet. Before I started I knew a fair amount about how antidepressants worked in theory but I had never heard any first hand accounts. Despite the fact that I hadn't read any "horror stories" I still managed to be terrified of using them . I had a vague idea that the drugs would alter my mind in some mysterious way and I'd never know it. This incoherent thought was strong enough to cause me to delay starting medication for years.
I actually think that I would have found all the accounts I've read here reassuring in a perverse sort of way. The problems reported are so ordinary and so concrete even when severe. Real risks like headaches, nausea, exhaustion etc are far less frightening (to me at least) than the vague and imaginary ideas I had of what would happen to me.
poster:Jane D
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