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Backyard Skunkworks wrote ...
I'd really recomend taking up distance running. Running takes your mind off everything, and it always gives you something to improve at. Whenever your feeling really bad, go jogging for a good half hour or more and you'll feel far better when you finish than when you start. Running really gets you into shape too.
That is exactly what I did when I was getting the beat down in grad school quantum mechanics. You know it's bad when the other professors complain that the one professor is making all his students wander the halls looking like whipped dogs!
Anyway, that was ~15 years ago and I'm still doing it regularly for the same reasons. It just makes me feel better about everything.
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Arcstarter wrote ...
Wow, man. You just reached me on a level i never thought possible.. :P Anyway, i think i am gonna get off of this pill and start taking a supplement called GABA (stands for something like gamma-aminobutyric acid, but idk) Because it helped my mom out, and for some strange unexplained reason, it also got rid of her eczema. The problem is, they are quite big when it is not a capsule, just a solid pill thing. Like <-------------> that big and pretty wide :P. Scratches your throat on the way down;).
If it works for you, go for it. Remember to talk it over with your doctor first, though. To simply stop taking your prescribed medication could be dangerous, and the doctor will be able to tell you how to go about switching over to something else.
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Chris Russell wrote ...
Arcstarter wrote ...
Wow, man. You just reached me on a level i never thought possible.. :P Anyway, i think i am gonna get off of this pill and start taking a supplement called GABA (stands for something like gamma-aminobutyric acid, but idk) Because it helped my mom out, and for some strange unexplained reason, it also got rid of her eczema. The problem is, they are quite big when it is not a capsule, just a solid pill thing. Like <-------------> that big and pretty wide :P. Scratches your throat on the way down;).
If it works for you, go for it. Remember to talk it over with your doctor first, though. To simply stop taking your prescribed medication could be dangerous, and the doctor will be able to tell you how to go about switching over to something else.
Yea, well, i was only taking it for one day, so i just stopped. But, this GABA stuff was suggested from my psychologist, but of course she cannot prescribe anything.
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Arcstarter wrote ...
Anyway, i think i am gonna get off of this pill and start taking a supplement called GABA (stands for something like gamma-aminobutyric acid, but idk) Because it helped my mom out, and for some strange unexplained reason, it also got rid of her eczema. The problem is, they are quite big when it is not a capsule, just a solid pill thing. Like <-------------> that big and pretty wide :P. Scratches your throat on the way down;).
Even with over-the-counter remedies, you need to be EXTREMELY careful before stopping meds or taking those supplements in conjunction with your anti-depressant.
Just for example, if you took an SSRI (zoloft, paxil, prozac) in conjuction with another depression drug called an MAO inhibitor, you could very likely die due to the interactions. There are similar interactions with supplements, although i'm not too familiar with what they are.
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coillah wrote ...
GABA, I have taken that for concentration, ADD remedies.
Dr. Gig is right, you should consult your doctors for advice on what to do.
That sine wave thing is awesome huh? :P
Yes, that sine wave thing, well, i gotta use it sometime, but now i am going to be excited until i get to use it and when i do i will find some way to mess it up and it wont be funny :/.
Ok, so you are saying that GABA helps with concentration?
YES! That is EXACTLY what i need. I have bad memory and i cannot concentrate, even on tesla coils about something i really need to learn. I was diagnosed with mild ADD, but i do not trust my doctor with anything, he always looks drugged up. I always expect him to fall asleep right in the middle of talking to me, he never has his eyes opened up, and he talks kinda slurrish :P.
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Matthew, an afterthought: is it possible that there might be a bipolar support group in your neighbourhood where you could share your difficulties with folk who have similar issues to your own?
And what about seeing if there is an electronics club you could get to, so you could expand your circle of real-life friends with similar interests to your own?
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The sinewave thing is a great example. In fact, everyone follows that curve to some extent.
Problems occur when you have depression (sinewave offset downwards) or mania (sinewave offset upwards), or in bipolar disorder, where the sinewave amplitudes peak at much higher values - both positive and negative.
Medication is used to help correct whatever "DC offset" there is and also to limit the amplitude of those swings.
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:D
Just a couple of things I forgot to mention.
Diagnosis is the method by which you are able to attach a name for some kind of disorder to yourself. But this is exactly what I try to avoid now.
I lived with a label for three years and they were not good for me at all. My point above is that you will realize that everyone is weird, we all have our own quirks, and its not thinking to yourself that you're weird that helps, its knowing that everyone is in it together.
All I am getting at, and I am not a doctor, just a kid that has gone through similar stuff, is that if I could go back, I would tell my shrink to shut up and let me be depressed for a couple of years, then I would have turned to myself and told myself to work with it and just relax.
You're a teenager, you have these chemicals coursing through your veins, don't forget that :)
But once again, I am not advocating anything as a doctor, just offering my experience.
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You're a teenager, you have these chemicals coursing through your veins, don't forget that :)
Just remember . . . chemicals, schemicals . . .
We are quick to point a finger at medications as bad for us etc..., but in reality, the chemicals and substances in fast food, which almost everyone eats is MUCH MUCH worse for your health.
For example, you could be some kid who is afraid of getting the flu vaccine because of bad rep about it and mercury etc... when in fact, the same kid if out buying McDonalds everyday for lunch and not thinking twice about it.
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Anyone used this anitdepressant before?
