My doctor just prescribed me Xanax to help with my depression but reading around online it seems Xanax actually makes depression worse? I'm already borderline suicidal, I don't want to get worse.
My doctor just prescribed me Xanax to help with my depression but reading around online it seems Xanax actually makes depression worse?
just find something that makes you actually happy
Nothing makes me fricking happy except my ex but it's been 5 years and I'm over her.
Considering you're still mentioning her, doesn't seem like you're actually over her.
Like opiates?
It's not an antidepressant. It will make you a zombie in the long term. Don't take it, try ashwagandha instead.
Just eat more and train for a marathon
Ashwaganda is a meme
Panax ginseng and rhodiola work the first time, no build up needed
i take xanax (alprazolam) to sleep sometimes when i have insomnia and it makes me angry the next day. You need to change your life if youre depressed, no pills will fix it
xanax is evil, worse than nothing
Depression from what?
Those mean twolls called you fatso again?
My parents both died within the last two years. I live alone. My ex left me 5 years ago for no reason and I've been single since. I work from home so I don't talk to anyone regularly. I have no friends. I have asthma and chronic panic attacks for no reason. I'm stressed out over my PhD application.
I go to the gym every day and have a good physique.
>I go to the gym every day and have a good physique.
That's all that matters. Lift those feels away.
>Lifting didn’t remove the depression
>K-keep going on
The most intelligent anonymous.
sheesh.
keep lifting bro.
Its been 5 years get over your ex dude. Sorry about your parents. Try to only use the xanax when you feel a panic attack coming on and not any other times.
Dude your living in the past.
Get a shitty job thats not work from home.
If phd goes tbrough only do it on campus
If it doesn't try again in a few years, take some time away from it to get friends and a wife.
>I have no friends.
you should seriously consider changing that.
>chronic panic attacks for no reason
That's why he prescribed you xanax, it's literally anti-anxietic.
I don't recommend long term use of benzo's, as it is nasty in memory loss and other side effects (>1 month of usage), but if it'll stop you from being a mess for a time to pick yourself up...
The Xanax is for your panic attacks moron. Read the fricking prescription. And they're not for 'no reason.' You're having panic attacks because your life fricking sucks, your parents just died, and you're completely alone. Go outside (hiking, running), socialize (club, sport, university for a BS degree, a new job, your still alive family members, whatever), and start some kind of therapy. If you can't find a therapist that isn't a money sucking israelite witch, just read books about it: On Becoming a Person by Roger's, anything written by Yalim, the behaviorist shit, Meditations for mindfulness 101, maybe some Buddhist shit since that's where CBT comes from. Yoga is unironically good for anxiety because of the deliberate reconnection of your fricked up mind with your fight and flighty body through a series of deliberately calm and slow movements. Read The Body Keeos the Score, its the IST psychotherapy and Bessel Van Der Kolkata is a chad. You can't talk your way out of hurt feelings and a fricked up mindset, you have to DO your way out of it. A massage or a game of catch or karate are more effective than CBT.
being prescribed xanax for depression is hilarious malpractice there is no chance this is not a troll post
Yeah the thing you need in your life is a benzo addiction.
>My ex left me 5 years ago for no reason and I've been single since. I work from home so I don't talk to anyone regularly. I have no friends. I have asthma and chronic panic attacks for no reason.
No you don't. Your life is fricked and that is why you have panic attacks because your subconscious knows it. You need relationships and community
Xanax is for anxiety. I'll take your scrip if you don't want them. DM me.
Just be happy man, like play with the cards you've been dealt with man, your perception is reality man
Of course, your moronic IST friends know better than a doctor. Why did you go to a hospital to begin with?
I OD'd on paracetamol as a suicide attempt.
Most GPs are idiots with surface level knowledge of everything so that they can refer patients to specialists who actually know what they're talking about. This is especially true when it comes to prescribing meds related to mental health problems
Find a new doctor who isn't a fricking idiot. Any doctor who jumps straight to benzos instead of mild SSRIs has no business practicing medicine. Benzo addiction is no joke, especially if you're already suffering from depression
this I have severe anxiety and am stuck in my room for years and doctors wont even give me that shit.
My wife had a pretty bad post partum depression, and got prescribed xanax with Lexapro.
It made her a zombie, and when she stopped taking it, she got better because she could compare the current state with how she was feeling before.
Try it and see how it works for you
How was her productivity? Could she still do house chores and go to work, but she was just emotionless and with low libido, or was she just staying in bed all day?
>People in this thread actually wanting NOT to feel depressed.
NGMI
Dear God benzos are the worst shit you could possibly take, it took me YEARS to break that habit with seizures and panic attacks - don't go down that hole OP frick that doctor
So if Xanax works simmilar to SSRI medication, the whole it gets worse is around int he first 4-6w of taking it. The way it was described to me was at the current moment you have low mood and low energy so cant act on impulses, but it corrects the energy aspect first then the mood so theres a risky inbetween where you could theoretically act on any impulse
some drops una tantum are ok, but regular 0,5mg pills will frick your mind
don't do it anon; it will only make you basically numb
Seriously anon don't do it, read up a bit about Xanax, maybe not American sources - ~~*they*~~ tend to give them away like candy for a reason in burgerland.
Tell your doctor you dont want it, explain that ever mass killing/shooting in 15 years has been dine by people on it of its analog (look it, make sure im not lying ). And orvjust say it makes you feel worse.
Very good if you get anxious before sleeping like me. Only medication that puts my to sleep in a very pleasant way and makes me wake up rested and actually energetic. I’m not depressed but severely anxious, specially at night time. I can’t imagine taking it on the morning and having a functional life tho, the thing really makes you STONED. I’m also not American.
xanax turns your mind off, it's for anxiety attacks and shit. plus you get a nasty side effect of memory loss. throw that poison away
>it seems Xanax actually makes depression worse?
yes goy, take your pills so that you have to take your pills forever while we gargle on your money
I was prescribed Xanax for years. Also Valium, Ambien and a bunch of other shit.
Xanax will make you feel worse in the medium to long-run. It's also one of the absolute worst drugs when it comes to addiction - worse than fentanyl and coke, IMO.
Proceed with caution.
amazing read.
Here, have more.
i literally tried su1c1de after 2 pills of xanax and a bottle of booze.
Stay away from this shit