Antidepressants & "serious Mental Illnesses ???

[Ella789]

I just picked up my prescription for Cymbalta and attached to the package was a Medication Guide stateing that "Antidepressant Medicines, Depression and other Serious Mental Illnesses, and Suicidal Thoughts or Actions"
  This was in bold type at the very top was MY name ect.  So......  I read it again and realize that I must be labled as Mentaly Ill, which bothers me somehow!!    Just don't set well with me.  I must be a bit touchey this eve.  I think perhaps I will talk to my Dr. abt. withdrawing from the Cymbalta, some posts say it's addictive too.  

Happy Anti-depressed evening to everyone  :)

Ella

[mtgoat911]

i am ok with having aspergers, i have accepted it

[Ella789]

  Thanks so much for the information,  your input has really helped me see things more clearly.  I never thought of addiction as a mental illness, not one time did that ever occure to me.  If Cymbalta has helped me with my withdrawl, then I'm glad...I didn't think so at the time but during withdrawl a person tends to have so many issues going on.   I think I must accept the LABLE and go on.... it's a pride thing and I guess I thought I was above alot of the lables that I now accept.... mental illness and addiction, which came first I do not know.  

Outoftown, I don't think I reached the depth of dispair that you must have felt to want everything to be over....end.  My heart goes out to you, I'd never think it was a cowards way out.  And i think you are right about the drug companies too!!

   Mtgoat911,  Thank you for the info, I think I will now try to see things in a different light,  I don't want to go back but I would like to see if perhaps now , I can free myself from some of the meds I now take just to see if I am "okay" for myself........ does that make sense?  If I still need it then I will go back to it.  I am definately more well now physically than I have ever been, that I can remember.  Amazing what opiates can do to a persons body. I am gaining weight, my teeth and gums are healing, and that in itself is a miracle.   I hope that someday your condition will leave you too, I don't know about autism and I pray that I never have a loved one who has to deal with it!!

Thank you both for an informative comment  :)

Ella

[mtgoat911]

i know how you feel, i have aspergers, and trust me its very difficult to tell people i have a form of autism, i would much rather say i am clinically depressed
but we are who we are, and ignoring our condition just because the label makes us insecure will destroy any hope in getting better
i hate to be a party pooper but all of use on the addictions forum has atlease one mental illness, drug addiction is a recognoized mental illness
many addicts have to take psyc. meds, and while psyc meds are not narcotic, our bodies get used to taking them
its a risk vs benifit for me, i would take out a sheet of paper and write down a list of what the medicine helps you with, then i would write down a list of possible side effects, then i would make another list and talk about what would happen if you go off your psyc meds
when i got clean i got off everything, incliding an anti-depressant i had been taking since i was 14, after a complete evaluation and living with aspie symptoms, i asked for medical help, and started a new med, and it has helped me so much, however it has caused me to have metabolic syndrome, so it goes back to risk vs benifits which you will discuss with your doctor
i seek help for all my issues now that i am in recovery, spiritually, emotionally and mentally, maybe one day my illness will leave me and i can chalk it up to a monstor character defect, until then i will adress it, because it has the power to affect my recovery
hope this helps,

[outotown]

HEY!! I do want to say it help me greatly w/depression which i was very addicted to pain meds and in very very deep depression and did try to take my own life. So i guess i was ? am mently ill. But if i ran out befor i could get my script. filled like one day early i would be suffering w/ds my doc. said has to be the suboxone but i wasnt out of it. i asked my pharmecy and they said they had never heard of Cymbalta w/d BELIVE ME ITS REAL. Granted i should have done a better job of research and be mindful of what i put in it but at the time i had no choice in the matter i was in, in house detox and i had just tried the dumbest and most selfish , and cowerdly thing in my life, so i was at the mercy of my DR. after all the research ive now done i think the drug companies dont disclose everything to the ones who wil be giving the med's out bottom line DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH ask questions I posted the other day with the headline MAD MAD MAD ADDICT i became an addict on my own and I WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL RECOVERY