Do You Take Any Medications Or Have An Addiction To Any Prescription Pills?

[♥ Lily ♥]

I take anti-depressant medication daily, opiate painkillers occasionally along with other prescription painkillers sometimes for a back injury, and sleeping pills sometimes.

I rarely ever drink alcohol (maybe once every few years) as it can be dangerous mixed with my medically-prescribed medications.

[Dick]

Does booze count?

[jingorex]

Vodka and Coffee.

[catgeorge]

Nope.... red wine for me cures all :laugh:

[Lek]

No.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Does booze count?


lol, I guess it's a medication to some.... I'm a nicotine addict and I love vaping cherry and vanilla e-liquids in e-cigarettes and vapourisers.

If I can't have a cigarette in certain places due to the smoking ban in public, I'll either vape - or wear a nicotine patch until I can find somewhere where I can legally light-up. Nicotine is a medication to me.

[Dick]

lol, I guess it's a medication to some.... I'm a nicotine addict and I love vaping cherry and vanilla e-liquids in e-cigarettes and vapourisers.

If I can't have a cigarette in certain places due to the smoking ban in public, I'll either vape - or wear a nicotine patch until I can find somewhere where I can legally light-up. Nicotine is a medication to me.

Cute.

[Iloko]

3mg Risperdal
1mg Ativan (discontinued since 2010)

Psychiatrist diagnosis of 'Schizoaffective' disorder

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

I don't take anything besides 6 to 8 pieces of fruit a day and 6 portions of vegetables.

[Dick]

I don't take anything besides 6 to 8 pieces of fruit a day and 6 portions of vegetables.

Ok and? This thread isn't about food.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Ok and? This thread isn't about food.

Sorry, you're right. I forgot my medication.

[Dick]

Sorry, you're right. I forgot my medication.

Haha. What about the Guinness?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Haha. What about the Guinness?

I was joking. I enjoy beer but I drink alcohol rarely to be honest. I don't do drugs or prescription pills too, which is basically the same for me. Working on the back office of a big company for quite a few years with some people that take anti-depressives on daily basis for years and talk about it as if they were talking about chocolates as made sure that I will never try it out.

[LP0956]

Ok and? This thread isn't about food.

Portugueses don't have a brain.


I take anti-depressant medication, opiate painkillers occasionally along with other prescription painkillers sometimes, and sleeping pills sometimes.

My favourite medications are zopiclone sleeping pills and oxycontin painkillers.

I rarely ever drink alcohol (maybe once every few years) as it can be dangerous with my medications.



Zopiclone never made effect to me. I took zolpidem and benzodiazepines but there was no way I could sleep as well. Now I'm testing some antipsychotics so that I can calm down my brain activity to relax and then have a not so disturbed sleep.
I'm taking Venlafaxine (antidepressant), Lamotrigine (mood stabilizer) and Quetiapine (antipsychotic, but to sleep induction)

[Dick]

I was joking. I enjoy beer but I drink alcohol rarely to be honest. I don't do drugs or prescription pills too, which is basically the same for me. Working on the back office of a big company for quite a few years with some people that take anti-depressives on daily basis for years and talk about it as if they were talking about chocolates as made sure that I will never try it out.

That's cool. I'm allergic to anti-biotics which is why I'm never sick I guess.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

That's cool. I'm allergic to anti-biotics which is why I'm never sick I guess.

Not sure if trolling or not, lol. I am not one of those guys who is against being medicated if feeling ill, just to make it clear. I just always try to use it as a last resort. Anti-depressives is a big no for me though, since I have seen its consequences.

[LP0956]

Anti-depressives is a big no for me though, since I have seen its consequences.

As consequências são da hora
Como você acha que eu perdi 20 kg, tuga

[Dick]

Not sure if trolling or not, lol. I am not one of those guys who is against being medicated if feeling ill, just to make it clear. I just always try to use it as a last resort. Anti-depressives is a big no for me though, since I have seen its consequences.

I'm not trolling I've never been sick, same with my dad, grandpa etc. Maybe it's the y-dna. It dates back to the Nordic bronze age. My ancestors live through the Ice Age. Plus, I'm immune to HIV according to 23andme.

[Dick]

As consequências são da hora
Como você acha que eu perdi 20 kg, tuga

English, motherfucker.

[LP0956]

English, motherfucker.

I told him I want to suck your dick

[Kriptc06]

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[Lux Aeterna]

Lol, this some Anonymous Addicts ring of TA? I ain't joining, would not wanna ruin my flawless reputation around here... :rolleyes: j/k.

Though I'm curious about Mortimer's list of prescripted poison. Because that's often what it is, anti depressants are crap (IMO), but with his conditions he likely is on alot worse stuff. This is not ill intended Morti, but doctors don't always have your best in mind, many are careless and honestly don't give a damn about your life and well being. They care about their status and ego first and foremost. I'm afraid you're a trusting, or rather naive individual, in other words, an 'easy patient', or in my words, an easy victim.

They stopped performing surgical lobotomy in like what, the 80's? But no they never stopped, now it's just chemical lobotomy in pill form.

[UkrainianGirl]

No, I don't. Never did either.

My doctor always says during each check up, "Beautiful, happy, smart, and healthy as always." xD

[Dick]

No, I don't. Never did either.

My doctor always says during each check up, "Beautiful, happy, smart, and healthy as always." xD

Your gynecologist is a male?

[Profileid]

No, never. I've used adderal,vicodin and oxycontin recreationally though.

[UkrainianGirl]

Your gynecologist is a male?

Nope. Old lady. But was a guy before 18. All still said same thing basically.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Sorry, but I totally disagree with the condescending and judgemental and self-righteous comments of those who've never been hospitalised with severe clinical depression to the point they've stopped functioning and speaking to relatives and friends.

To the point where doctors treat those who would've self-harmed or committed suicide if they were left untreated without medication for their illness.

Clinical depression is not like normal depression where you can lift your mood, but due a lack of serotonin in the brain. You stop functioning and nothing can lift your mood and you feel confused and end-up being hospitalised for it.

Hospital wards are frightening places if you're classified as depressed and timid and nervous of people.... and suddenly you're on a ward full of loud and scary people shouting and throwing things around.

I was crying and shaking my head and pleading to a visiting home nurse the day before I was admitted to hospital that I didn't need to be in hospital and I insisted that I'd be fine and that I didn't want to go into hospital, but she persisted that if I didn't go into hospital voluntarily with a nurse the next day, then I'd be sectioned and would be forced into hospital. My weight had fallen low and I felt so weak by that point.

I pleaded with her to give me one day to prepare myself and pack my things which she let me have before they turned-up in a car to take me to the hospital the next evening. I was feeling petrified and trembling with shock and confusion upon arrival to the ward. It took me two weeks to settle in a bit and understand things more clearly, because at first I felt so lost and just couldn't understand why I was in hospital and I wondered if I was crazy or something.

Not much of a choice;- so I went voluntarily and quietly with them to stay in hospital, instead of being sectioned if I didn't go. The nurses said it's better to go to hospital voluntarily rather than have it recorded on your records as being sectioned. The doctors don't let people know when they'll be able to leave the place though and electric doors keep people inside the place.

Several years of taking anti-depressants daily has helped me to function so much - compared to how I was when I fell unwell before being treated and hospitalised for several months due to the severe level of depression I used to have.

I've seen some very sick people in hospital with all kinds of problems.... some of them were like crazy people when left untreated for their illness.

Doctors and psychologists force you to talk about really traumatic things in hospital, such as things that happened in your childhood, people you loved in relationships who suddenly died, etc, which can be stressful, distressing, and emotionally-draining to remember and talk about.



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As for painkillers.... try falling down the stairs like I accidentally did and breaking a spinal disc in four places that cuts into your nerves whenever you make the slightest movement, and prevents you from being unable to cough, move your neck, stand up, or walk, and gasping in pain whilst taking 30 minutes to slowly move in and out of bed, and being in a wheelchair for months before having an operation done, and then needing the occasional strong painkiller to cope with the pain afterwards.

I can run, skip, dance, and smile again now.... but sometimes I get shock pains like a sharp stabbing feeling in my lower back that causes me to catch my breath in pain, so I take the occasional prescribed painkillers a few times a year - only as a last resort when I require them.

I'm dependent on painkillers at times for relieving extreme pain - but I'm lucky enough not to be addicted to painkillers like some other unfortunate people are.

I take my medication responsibly and only occasionally as a last resort and I never abuse my dosage level. Same with my sleeping pills;- a small box of twenty low-dosage level sleeping pills will last me for an entire year as I only take a sleeping pill very occasionally (like with the painkillers) once a month or so, as a last resort if I can't sleep. I never misuse or abuse my medication dosage level.

I take antidepressant medication daily though and I certainly don't find that addictive either and I've found it easy to stop taking antidepressants in the past. I've never once heard of anyone ever being addicted to SSRI's and the medical info on the medication also states that it's non-addictive.

SSRI antidepressants aren't like highly-addictive tranquilisers, sedatives, barbiturates, and sleeping pills.

I was given a lot of boxes of different prescription painkillers upon leaving hospital after surgery to take for the following six weeks... but I reduced it and managed to stop taking it after 2-3 weeks and the doctor was quite impressed that I withdrew from the need of painkillers so soon after the operation - but I do require the occasional prescription pain relief pill sometimes.

How many people would have a surgical operation or a tooth extraction without ever taking an anaesthetic drug so that they don't feel any agonising pain during surgery?!

I'm relieved that I was knocked-out for a few hours with an anaesthetic while surgeons were cutting into me with surgical tools in my back to do an operation.

When people are in chronic pain after an injury or for some other medical reason, they'll take any medicine to relieve the pain.

Medical marijuana may be a better and more affordable alternative pain relief for people with less side-effects than the highly-addictive opiate-based painkillers.


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Many prescription painkiller addicts are what's known as being 'accidental addicts'. Many of the accidental addicts (including school teachers, builders who fell from a worksite, and sports coaches, etc,) report that they had a good life and were good citizens in society who said in documentaries and television interviews that they never took any drugs prior to having an injury one day that completely changed their lives - and were then prescribed strong opiate painkillers by doctors to block the pain receptors in the brain that they accidentally became addicted to - especially in the US where the high dosage levels of opiate-based painkillers there show reports of people taking 80mg daily for their pain relief.

My painkiller pill dosage is currently low at 5-10mg, and there's not as many painkiller addicts in the UK compared to the epidemic painkiller addiction problem in the US.

After time, the patients require higher and higher dosage levels of painkiller medication to get the same effect and pain-relief.

That's what happened to Michael Jackson after his severe back injury after a heavy crate fell down onto his back live on-stage, and then he became dependent on painkillers and sleeping pills to sleep. He ending-up paying private fee-charging doctors to give him an anaesthetic medication to make him sleep at night, and he went to fee-charging private clinics to be given injections of demerol, and took other pills in order to be able to dance and perform on stage without being in pain for his back and lupus health problem and vitiligo skin condition, that was revealed to the public by a British surgeon in a documentary who did a full autopsy examination on his dead body.

After the court trial hearing about Michael Jackson's cause of death, his very expensive fee-charging private doctor was sent to jail for two years.

Marilyn Monroe died from an overdose of barbiturates and was taking sleeping pills too.


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It could happen to anyone in life one day who could find themselves gasping in immense pain every day and night until they're given painkiller medication to relieve their symptoms.

My middle-class Spanish-English friend (who went to a good private school) suffers from hysterical attacks and depression and high anxiety levels, (so mental health has no class barriers in society, as the late Princess Diana was hospitalised for eating disorders and depression,) and my good friend's English mother paid thousands in money for her daughter to stay in the private and luxurious Priory Clinic in London that often treats supermodels and celebrities in there.

She said she's traumatised following a childhood rape by her Spanish father who's now in jail, and she said to me while she was staying in the free NHS hospital, that the previous private hospital she stayed in hasn't helped to treat her problems.

She said they try to keep people sick inside of the private fee-charging hospitals for longer, in order to make more money out of patients who are charged for each night and day that they stay in the very posh Priory Clinic that treats people with mental health problems or addiction problems requiring rehab therapy.

Whereas in the NHS-funded free hospitals, the doctors are often busy and in a hurry and try to treat people and get them out of hospital asap due to the shortage of beds for all the patients requiring free health treatment.

Another person I knew in hospital who had schizoprhenia giggled when he told people how he was taken under section of the Mental Health Act by paramedics to stay at the exclusive private Priory Clinic in North London (where Kate Moss and other stars have paid thousands in money to stay,) and he was able to stay there for free for one night (which the NHS (National Health Service)) funded for him when there was no available beds spare for him to be kept for emergency treatment in an NHS hospital, until a spare bed became available the next morning in an NHS hospital for him to be transferred from the expensive Priory Clinic.

The only difference with private hospitals is that you pay for a more luxurious room and can skip a long waiting list, and private fee-charging doctors are more likely to prescribe people with certain medications that they're willing to pay for.

NHS doctors (who receive a set annual salary each year) are more reluctant to prescribe people with expensive medications for free - unless it's essential that they absolutely require it for their medical problem - and will often keep the dosages as low as possible to prevent long-term addiction problems to expensive medications that's funded by the National Health Service.


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I never look down on people with an illness or who have an addiction and a dependence on prescribed medications for whatever medical condition they have. I feel sad for them having to rely on painkillers or developing an addiction problem. Some fee-charging private doctors in the US have been accused though of turning their patients into drug addicts.

If people get cancer, or have schizophrenia, or an injury, or any range of mental or physical problems.... most people will listen to the advice of the health experts, psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, hospital specialists, and take the medications that are medically prescribed to treat them.

My grandmother was given morphine in hospital when she was terminally-ill with cancer. Who'd want to ever suffer in absolute agony and pain when there's humane medical relief available for patients?

Codeine made me vomit the pills back up anytime I tried to take it, and the morphine that nurses gave me in hospital on the night before my operation made my skin suddenly itch - to the point I was making my skin bleed from scratching that night - so I asked to be given an alternative medication due to the side-effects that I experienced from morphine and codeine.

Oxycodone painkillers have some side-effects (such as severe constipation) which require taking other medications (such as a lot of prescribed laxatives) to relieve the side-effects a bit sometimes... but being in agonising pain feels by far much worse than putting up with constipation and a bit of nausea occasionally - or the occasional side-effect of a mild headache (treated with a paracetamol) and slight tiredness sometimes from antidepressants feels less worse than being unmotivated and unwell with severe clinical depression.

I was given entonox (gas and air - aka 'laughing gas') by paramedics in an ambulance after my fall down the stairs and I was nervous of inhaling it at first - but the paramedics were telling me to breathe it in more deeply and they kept telling me in the ambulance to keep taking more gas. They said to me that it's great stuff and very useful for temporarily reducing the pain. It certainly does help a bit.

As for condescending, self-righteous and judgemental people...


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[Freeroostah]

Nope.... red wine for me cures all :laugh:

Red wine causes severe head aches for me
OUZO ALL THE WAY !!! :D

[♥ Lily ♥]

Lol, this some Anonymous Addicts ring of TA? I ain't joining, would not wanna ruin my flawless reputation around here... :rolleyes: j/k.

Though I'm curious about Mortimer's list of prescripted poison. Because that's often what it is, anti depressants are shit (IMO), but with his conditions he likely is on alot worse stuff. This is not ill intended Morti, but doctors don't always have your best in mind, many are careless and honestly don't give a damn about your life and well being. They care about their status and ego first and foremost. I'm afraid you're a trusting, or rather naive individual, in other words, an 'easy patient', or in my words, an easy victim.

They stopped performing surgical lobotomy in like what, the 80's? But no they never stopped, now it's just chemical lobotomy in pill form.

How would he be without his medication and what medical qualifications do you have to disagree with the professionals who are treating his medical problems?

I knew of a 16 year old who committed suicide - despite appearing happy and well on the surface. He bottled his feelings up and never seeked professional medical and expert treatment. Medication with counselling and CBT and psychology sessions could've saved him from self-harm and killing himself.

There's people who suffer from high anxiety and insomnia (doctors included) who take the occasional sleeping pill so they can function in the day.

Would you have an operation done or a tooth extracted without taking any pain relief medication and an anaesthetic?

If you ever have an accident and are in a severe level of absolutely agonising pain from an injury... would you still say, 'Oh no, I won't take any pain-relief medication' to the doctors and paramedics - even when you're screaming and crying in pain?

What about all the medications given to people with heart problems, diabetes, etc.... do you condemn them for taking prescribed medications given by doctors and experts for their medical symptoms too? Because those medications also have their side-effects.

Some medications can treat one problem but can give people another problem which requires other pills for the side-effects. Doctors are aware of this and will monitor peoples blood pressure and health and adjust the dosage and weigh-up the pros vs the cons of taking medication vs being left untreated.

If I wasn't medicated right now, I'd be listening to loads of gothic music and never smiling and would be in a very unresponsive and very depressive state. I was advised to take extra vitamin D too, along with my medication. 20mg had little effect on me, so that's why the doctor increased it to 40mg daily on advice of my CBT and PCP therapists and psychologist.

A psychiatrist has diagnosed me with Avoidance Personality Disorder (I avoid answering my phone, responding to people, avoid seeing people, avoid eating, etc, when I'm depressed)... and 'severe clinical depression' and occasional insomnia, along with some trauma (from things that happened that I don't wish to discuss.) I was removed from their care after a year of taking medication daily and they saw massive improvements, so my PCP therapist has said my therapy sessions with them will end soon. I've already completed a 12 week course of CBT therapy sessions.

I had Crisis Team medical workers and nurses visit me each day in my home for several weeks when I fell very ill to check if I'd taken my medication to sleep properly and to advise me not to exhaust myself with unrealistic goals and to stop me from doing too much cleaning work all the time and staying up late to do more obsessive cleaning, and to make sure I took my anti-depressant medication in front of them, and to check if I'd eaten after my weight fell low, before being hospitalised a few times for severe depression. I couldn't respond much to the people in hospital until my medication kicked-in a few weeks later.

I smile a lot now and feel positive about life, enjoy doing things again like my piano and dancing classes... even my music tastes have changed on my medication (I no longer listen to cynical and pessimistic doom and gloom gothic music all the time,)... I talk again with my relatives and friends, and feel much better on my medication along with weekly therapy sessions.

I don't experience many side-effects from SSRI anti-depressants and can do loads of activities whilst taking medication, even though it makes me feel a little drowsy and affects my concentration a bit. I've never been addicted to taking SSRI's though and can easily stop them, but I wouldn't just stop them again like I did in the past when I stopped taking them thining I could overcome the problem myself... and then quickly relapsed in a severe clinical depression - which is even worse to manage with. I know which is the worse of two evils.

Somedays are difficult and I can't talk or respond to people in emails or in posts, or to communicate with my friends and relatives, but that's usually because I can't concentrate on reading things or on what they're saying to me when I feel tired.

An illness of any type could happen to anyone in life ... whether they're a member of the Royal Family like Princess Diana had eating disorders and clinical depression and was hospitalised.... or a famous celebrity who has a breakdown in life.... or a famous artist with mental problems like Salvador Dali or Vincent Van Gogh.... a range of different physical or mental illnesses can affect anyone at any stage in life.

[Dick]

Red wine causes severe head aches for me
OUZO ALL THE WAY !!! :D

It's the sulphites in wine. You might allergic and yeah, ouzo and sambuca are great.

[Freeroostah]

It's the sulphites in wine. You might allergic and yeah, ouzo and sambuca are great.

Rakia too!! :)

[♥ Lily ♥]

Not sure if trolling or not, lol. I am not one of those guys who is against being medicated if feeling ill, just to make it clear. I just always try to use it as a last resort. Anti-depressives is a big no for me though, since I have seen its consequences.

What consequences was that since millions of people take SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) anti-depressants which boosts the amount of the serotonin hormone (usually found in daylight) to help people with either SAD (seasonal activity disorder/wintertime blues) or with various levels of clinical depression - where people lose all interest in things they used to enjoy and become unresponsive, apethetic, and numb towards people around them.

I'm sure that I read somewhere once that there's a high percentage of people in both France and the UK who take anti-depressants. A therapist told me that over 50% of people in the UK take anti-depressants.

I've seen (and personally know of) the even worse consequences of being left medically untreated. People can end up cutting themselves, slashing their wrists, or taking overdoses or trying to self-medicate with alcohol or illegal street drugs, rather than getting properly prescribed medications by qualified doctors for their illness, before they end up being hospitalised.

I know of an Irish person who's diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder too who's like a maniac and is a risk to himself and to others when he misses his medication.

He ends up being violent and talks to the trees and is abusive to anyone around him who he gets paranoid of ... and he gets sectioned over and over again in hospitals, and it requires police who arrive in vans to force him into the hospital ward under section of the Mental Health Act. He gets strapped-down for his own safety and for the safety of the doctors and nurses treating him while they inject him and calm him down.

I've seen it happen to lots of the more volatile patients in hospitals. They get put on 24 hour watch by the nurses who act like security guards in those places and flash bright lights over the beds on patients every hour during the night to check you've not harmed yourself. (You need sleeping pills to sleep at night in hospital with lights being flashed on you every hour and people screaming and shouting and setting off the panic alarms all night.)

After he's been injected daily and stays in hospital for a few months every year, he's fine and normal again when he returns home with his prescribed medication pills for his condition.

I've never been forced against my will to be in hospital, but have taken the advice of doctors who said I needed professional treatment in hospital as I was neglecting myself and not eating properly for over a year due to being depressed. I lost my appetite and lost interest in playing on my piano, and didn't want to see or speak to any of my friends or family for over a year.

I felt like I was in a dark place and that I couldn't snap out of it or help myself. I just couldn't smile at anything in life and kept crying for hours and hours everyday that went on for over 7 months, and then I became unresponsive, apethetic, and numb. That was before I received medical intervention in hospital, followed-up with weekly therapy and medications.

I met some other quiet patients with the same symptoms in hospital and I no longer felt ashamed and isolated with the problem. I used to not tell people how I felt, and try to hide myself away and isolated from my relatives and friends because I didn't wish to bring them down by not smiling and being glum and unresponsive around them, and so I pretended to be fine and just told people I needed my own space.... like wearing a mask infront of people which was a strain to uphold when I was falling apart and couldn't cope or help myself to get out of that dark place I was in for a long time.

Electroshock therapy treatment to the brain is only used in very extreme cases of severe depression, if patients don't respond to SSRI antidepressant medication, or other types of antidepressant medications.

If patients are left medically untreated, they could present a risk or a danger to themselves and to society. The consequences of that could be far more devastating.

I rarely look at what's happening in the world news as it's difficult to concentrate and read and it depresses me.... but like everytime we hear in the news after a school shooting about a very troubled or bullied or paranoid teen with mental health problems walking into a school with a gun... (you know the tragic ending of those depressing news reports.)

[Charles Bronson]

No.

[♥ Lily ♥]

I can relate to this American gothic classical and electric violinist, viola player, pianist, choir singer, poetry writer and reader, spoon-player and harpischord player (who plays a lot of baroque music on her harpsichord), Emilie Autumn.

She was sectioned and locked-up in a hospital due to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder that she takes daily medication for and she said she desperately wishes that she could find a cure for it.

She said that she's asexual due to the side-effects of her medication that lowers and inhibits her sexual drive, and also due to trauma from multiple childhood rapes.

She has a tattoo of her hospital number on her arm.... because she said she felt like she was treated like just a patient number in hospital, rather than a human with feelings.

She made this song about the way doctors and nurses threaten patients and treat them with pills and ECT (electroshock therapy to the brain) in hospitals and forced her to take various medications. She said she wasn't allowed to be given a pen while in hospital, so she wrote the lyrics with a spare crayon on paper.

Music is an outlet for her emotions and she created the music-genre 'Victoriandustrial' (Victorian combined with modern industrial music) as she's a history buff on Victorian society and she loves dressing in Victorian-era clothing.

She features 'tea-time therapy' and dark humour while she sips tea on stage to talk very politely and calmly with her audience, and sings how 'Tea will rock you!' and sings about Bipolar and features fire-eating performances and fire-dancing, inbetween reading-out poetry she wrote herself and also some poetry that she loves by her idol Shakespeare to her audience.

She says that 'classical music rules' during her live performances on stage to cheer people up while bringing her pet rats onto the stage and singing how misery loves company from her music albums about Victorian society and mental asylums. Sometimes she sings and chants in an angelic choir voice and plays very soothing new-age music, and sometimes she rocks classical music on her viola and violin, and plays medieval baroque music on her harpsichord, and sometimes she's features Victoriandustrial music. Her styles are very varied.

I also love the film 'Girl, Interrupted' featuring Angelina Jolie (who used to cut herself in real life and relate to gothic people, and she's into knife-throwing, and carried a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood in a vial around her neck on her wedding day and they had each others names written in their blood on their shirts when they arrived on a motorbike for their wedding, and she once said she wanted to be a vampire and said she wanted to hire a professional hitman to kill her.) Winona Ryder is also in the film, (who was hospitalised in real life as she's a kleptomaniac who stole from department stores, despite being rich.)

The film is about females in hospital after being abused by their parents and having eating disorders, etc, and the ways they cope to get through the system of lining up in long queues when it's time to take medications before the staff let you go to sleep at night, and it shows how they find techniques and ways to cope on the mental wards of psychiatric hospitals.

I met my best friend from Croatia in hospital who was a quiet and gentle female too... and she tried to kill herself after her son died and she couldn't cope with the pain of losing her child.

People are at their most vulnerable and are often doped-up with a range of medications in hospital and a lot of your personal items are removed from you when you arrive on the ward of a psychiatric hospital, (like phone chargers, coathangers, lighters, and even sharp tweezers and pointed combs... so that you can't harm yourself. They still insist on taking these away from you and keeping it behind the ward reception desk - even if you don't have any history of self-harming!)

The nurses check through all your suitcase and bags on arrival to the ward. They act more like security guards rather than therapeutic nurses treating patients, even though many patients have never committed any crime and are treated like criminals in those institutions and don't know when they'll be released from hospital.

If you leave the ward for a walk, you have to be accompanied by a nurse until a doctor gives you permission for daily leave to be allowed to go for quiet walks outside by yourself. You still have to declare to the nurses where you're going and what time you'll be back which they log in a book, and they write down a description of the clothes you're wearing incase you run away. They body-check you when you return to the ward at the due time to check you have no sharp objects, pills, or lighters to harm yourself with.

Every hour on the ward, the nurses walk around and write down where you are and what you're doing, and they flash a bright light over the bed on you for a few seconds every hour at night via a switch outside the door when they look through the window on the door of each room.

Once an African nurse gave me the wrong medication one morning. I told her I take a white pill in the morning and a blue pill at night, but she insisted that she was right when I tried to tell her, and I was feeling drowsy and thought maybe I was confused, and so I took the medication - and then only afterwards did she bother to go and double-check which pill it was, and then realised that she accidentally gave me a sleeping pill first thing in the morning. She apologised and she spent some time in a staff-room discussing which pill she gave me, and then other nurses approached me and asked me if I swallowed the pill that she gave to me as they were concerned, but I said I was ok and fine as I was feeling very calm from the medication.

My Croatian friend told me one day that she complained when one of the psychiatrists turned-up drunk on the ward more than once and that other patients on the hospital ward were also complaining about it too. My friend said she was crying to the psychiatrist about the death of her child, and the doctor's speech was slurred and the doctor was laughing at her and stumbling over a bit and smelt of alcohol, which angered my (usually calm) friend who said that she lost her temper when the doctor started laughing during the meeting about her child's death.

After the meeting was over, she said a nurse who was present in the same room whispered in her ear that the doctor was drunk and was upsetting several of the patients. The nurse advised my friend to complain about the doctor's behaviour to the ward manager. Luckily I never met that particular doctor that my friend and some of the other patients complained about as I was being treated by a different doctor on the ward, but I felt very sad for my friend and I heard that other doctor was dismissed for misconduct for a few weeks from the ward.

Taking medications and being compliant with the doctors and nurses is a quicker way of getting out of hospitals.

Emilie has been through the system and she understands what it's like.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pPeHDJspg

'Well you're a doctor and I'm just a crazy f*cking bitch;- who would you believe?!
You no longer rule your body;- you no longer own those rights.
You will eat and wake-up when we say so;- you will sleep when we shut out the lights.
Take the pill and just be careful what you say... today could be your day.
Enjoy your stay - 'cause you can't run away!'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWF14YeBXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZeMv5Iqts

[Freeroostah]

No, never. I've used adderal,vicodin and oxycontin recreationally though.

My friends told me that adderal is very effective for motivation/studying/creativity etc
I might take it for the finals.....

[Óttar]

I drink coffee everyday and drink alcohol to excess usually once a week. I made some pot brownies for a religious holiday, but I only eat them once or twice a year. I take NyQuil on nights where I want to get back on a regular sleep schedule if I've overslept that day.

[Pennywise]

I used to for OCD.

[Profileid]

My friends told me that adderal is very effective for motivation/studying/creativity etc
I might take it for the finals.....

Take no more than 30mg the first time. Try to avoid extended release(XR). Also beware of comedown.

[Dick]

I take NyQuil on nights where I want to get back on a regular sleep schedule if I've overslept that day.

And I thought I was the only one that knew about that trick. I used to do that to knock me out too but haven't in a few years now.

[Óttar]

My friends told me that adderal is very effective for motivation/studying/creativity etc
I might take it for the finals.....
I fucking love Adderal. I procured some pills before writing my Bachelor's thesis in college and I loved it. I also went on a week long drug binge with a hippie friend of mine, using a different category of drug (excluding opiates) each day, and I can say hands down my favorite drug is amphetamines. I haven't had the opportunity to acquire them so I don't do them, but they make even packing up for a move a scintillating experience.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRB27kFOG0

[War Chef]

This is the "Soma" the ancient Aryans used. It grew on cow dung & because of it they started religions (rigveda & zoroastrianism)

http://i.imgur.com/ixMY21Z.jpg

[crazyladybutterfly]

brintellix and abilify

[Taiga Lake]

Anti-depressants for crippling anxiety and panic disorder and medicines for ulcerative colitis

[Kazimiera]

I have bipolar mood disorder and I've been through a number of turbulent years in the past to get my medication in balance. For the bipolar I take 30mg Citalopram (an anti-depressant to prevent depressive episodes), 400mg Lamotrigine (as a mood stabiliser to prevent the Citalopram launching me into a manic state) and 300mg Quetiapine (anti-psychotic which also prevents mood episodes). This combination works very well for me and I haven't had a mood episode in years.

I take zolpidem to sleep (on top of all the other medications). I use it mostly to manipulate my sleep patterns because I work night shift. I guess I'm dependent on them by now.

For multiple sclerosis I take Avonex which is a weekly injection. The neurologist recommended I take biotin (Vit H) supplements.

I'm a nicotine addict. I smoke like there is no tomorrow.

[Tchek]

I'm avoiding drugs/medication as much as possible, but I do take some occasionally. Like Diazepam or pain-killer. Especially the latter since I'm sick as hell right now.
Nothing daily.

[ÁGUIA]

A matter of time, give me 1 or 2 months more in this forum.

[Queen B]

Of course not. The worst think I do is drinking coffee.

[Ülev]

no, but I chew garlic and drink a kefir some evenings

[Insuperable]

No and I am not addicted to anything. A normal human being.

I was diagnosed with OCD in high school and had medications presribed which I refused to take. I somehow through power of will got rid of it later on. Now I am 100% normal.

[Mens-Sarda]

I'm allergic to doctors, at most I take an aspirin when I have the flu

[LieDetector]

No, thank God.

[frankhammer]

Hard as nails. Nothing extra required.

[Root]

No and never. Any medications can harm the liver that may cause liver dysfunction or damage

[Kazimiera]

No and never. Any medications can harm the liver that may cause liver dysfunction or damage

My liver is struggling with the medication I'm taking for the MS. I go for liver function tests every couple months and my liver function has deteriorated in the past year since I've been taking the medication. The doctor says my liver functions are normal for someone on that medication. Thankfully I don't drink alcohol or take anything which puts unnecessary stress on it. I have to choose the lesser of two evils.

[Sacrificed Ram]

I just fap watching some porn site and it solve all my problems.
:jackoff:

[Root]

My liver is struggling with the medication I'm taking for the MS. I go for liver function tests every couple months and my liver function has deteriorated in the past year since I've been taking the medication. The doctor says my liver functions are normal for someone on that medication. Thankfully I don't drink alcohol or take anything which puts unnecessary stress on it. I have to choose the lesser of two evils.





On the one hand, some meds you use could help you temporarily, but on the other hand they'll damage your health inside and outside too.. no one can buy good health, no matter how much money she or he has.. what about you, liver cleansing is the best solution

[Kazimiera]

On the one hand, some meds you use could help you temporarily, but on the other hand they'll damage your health inside and outside too.. no one can buy good health, no matter how much money she or he has.. what about you, liver cleansing is the best solution

I rather have a few liver problems than be crippled, full of pain and unable to move.

[Svipdag]

HAH ! Do I ? Here's the list: Lansoprazole, Furosemide, Onglyza, Venlafaxine, Clopidogrel, Warfarin, Metformin, Eplernone, Ezetimibe, Amlodipine, Metoprolol, Atorvastatin, Lumigan, Dorzolamide, and Ipratropium Bromide, for conditions as varied as chronic heartburn, stroke prevention, cardiac arrhythmia, cholesterol, diabetes, glaucoma, and chronic rhinitis.

Sometimes, I think that I'm keeping the pharmaceutical business running single-handedly, but some of the foregoing meds may well be responsible for my having lived about 17 years longer than I had expected to, so far.


ODIOSA HAEC EST AETAS ADVLESCENTVLIS

PVBLIVS TERENTIVS AFER

[Root]

I rather have a few liver problems than be crippled, full of pain and unable to move.




like him?


http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/ABDE/production/_87789934_965eaeab-967e-4d1e-bf15-75438752f556.jpg

[Kazimiera]

like him?

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/ABDE/production/_87789934_965eaeab-967e-4d1e-bf15-75438752f556.jpg

Stephen Hawking has motor neurone disease. I have multiple sclerosis. In some ways they are similar because both cause degeneration in the central nervous system and it affects nerves and muscle function. Motor neurone is fatal in the end whereas multiple sclerosis isn't. People with motor neurone usually die within a few years of diagnosis because their condition deteriorates so rapidly. Hawking is an anomaly. I won't die from the MS, but the course of the illness is unpredictable. There is no cure for it and my condition will deteriorate over time. The medication I take can't cure it but it can prevent it from becoming worse in a short space of time, thereby prolonging my functioning for longer. Without the medication I might be in a wheelchair in 5 years time, whereas with the medication I could still be walking in 20 years. My future is uncertain. It is degenerative, so it will get worse. There is not getting better with MS. I'd rather have liver problems than end up being strapped into a wheelchair with a colostomy bag, unable to eat by myself, unable to think, unable to live normally, trapped in a shell of a body from which I am unable to escape.

Like this....

http://www.suecenter.org/article/chr1.jpg

[Root]

Like this....

http://www.suecenter.org/article/chr1.jpg




Sounds much worse than Stephen Hawking's disease

[Dema]

No, im all natural.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/leafly-s3/content/is-cbd-from-cannabis-the-same-as-cbd-from-cannabis/dfmvNcghT3qWjRGokzvQ_hands-cupping-cannabis-plant.jpg

[Magnolia]

no

[Kelmendasi]

No, im all natural.

[IG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/leafly-s3/content/is-cbd-from-cannabis-the-same-as-cbd-from-cannabis/dfmvNcghT3qWjRGokzvQ_hands-cupping-cannabis-plant.jpg[/IMG]
U on dat good kush bro ;)?

[Dema]

U on dat good kush bro ;)?

Sure bro, i love it... Not even hiding it.. Kinda proud of it

[Kelmendasi]

Sure bro, i love it... Not even hiding it.. Kinda proud of it
What does it taste like? I have smelt it as my neighbors smoke it and it smells really bad though I don't know if this is the case for all Weed since I have never took it

[Dema]

What does it taste like? I have smelt it as my neighbors smoke it and it smells really bad though I don't know if this is the case for all Weed since I have never took it

There are many strains.. Actually it has good taste, kinda fruity. People usually roll it with tobacco but since you dont smoke you should maybe try it pure without tobacco.
It has really nice taste, depends on strain but it can taste like finest fruits : )

http://www.thenug.com/sites/default/pub/021014/thenug-k0lM2Uir9H.png

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/41/b4/d0/41b4d07d875ee581f2b4ff055bcea703.jpg

[Kelmendasi]

There are many strains.. Actually it has good taste, kinda fruity. People usually roll it with tobacco but since you dont smoke you should maybe try it pure without tobacco.
It has really nice taste, depends on strain but it can taste like finest fruits : )

[IM\G]http://www.thenug.com/sites/default/pub/021014/thenug-k0lM2Uir9H.png[/IMG]

[IM\G]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/41/b4/d0/41b4d07d875ee581f2b4ff055bcea703.jpg[/IMG]
Which strain is the best in your opinion? The closest thing I have done to Weed is cigarettes and Shisha/Hookah although I don't do those regularly and I have only done them once or twice. Is it legal in Croatia?

[Dema]

Which strain is the best in your opinion? The closest thing I have done to Weed is cigarettes and Shisha/Hookah although I don't do those regularly and I have only done them once or twice. Is it legal in Croatia?

Its decriminalized in Croatia and legal in medicinal purposes. If you dont have medical permission you pay some small globe but its not big deal, i never had problems.

There is lots of strains.. For you i would recommend some medium strength and with nice taste like: Orange bud or Blueberry.
Cigarettes, alcohol and pills are bad.. I would not recommend this to anyone.

As for me, my favorite is Jack Herer, 13 times Cannabis cup winner.

https://sensiseeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/jack-and-bud-250x212.jpg

[Kelmendasi]

Its decriminalized in Croatia and legal in medicinal purposes. If you dont have medical permission you pay some small globe but its not big deal, i never had problems.

There is lots of strains.. For you i would recommend some medium strength and with nice taste like: Orange bud or Blueberry.
Cigarettes, alcohol and pills are bad.. I would not recommend this to anyone.

As for me, my favorite is Jack Herer, 13 times Cannabis cup winner.

[IM/G]https://sensiseeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/jack-and-bud-250x212.jpg[/IMG]
True cigarettes and alcohol are really bad for you especially alcohol since it makes you do fucked up shit, In the UK weed is illegal although people still sell it and smoke it. I'm not sure what I feel about Weed since it is medicinal but still it is a drug that has some negatives

[Dema]

True cigarettes and alcohol are really bad for you especially alcohol since it makes you do fucked up shit, In the UK weed is illegal although people still sell it and smoke it. I'm not sure what I feel about Weed since it is medicinal but still it is a drug that has some negatives

There is never recorded any case of death because of weed, unlike alcohol and other stuff. I never seen any negatives..

Look at US, most advance countries have legalize it starting with California, when most redneck ones like Texas are still being dumb : )
If Switzerland, California and such advance countries admit that it is flawless natural cure, then why are we pretending to be smarter then them?

Your opinion is not relevant at this point because you dont know much about it. There is entire history behind this plant also big injustice done to it. I have read so much about it, books and books.. Also got personal experience.
Along with medicine, truth is winning, slowly but surely.

http://www.medicalmarijuanablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/map2.jpg

[Kelmendasi]

There is never recorded any case of death because of weed, unlike alcohol and other stuff. I never seen any negatives..

Look at US, most advance countries have legalize it starting with California, when most redneck ones like Texas are still being dumb : )
If Switzerland, California and such advance countries admit that it is flawless natural cure, then why are we pretending to be smarter then them?

Your opinion is not relevant at this point because you dont know much about it. There is entire history behind this plant also big injustice done to it. I have read so much about it, books and books.. Also got personal experience.
Along with medicine, truth is winning, slowly but surely.

[MG]http://www.medicalmarijuanablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/map2.jpg[/IMG]
Yh it is true and Weed is a medicinal plant anyways but it has been able to cause paranoia although this varies from person to person obviously

[Dema]

Yh it is true and Weed is a medicinal plant anyways but it has been able to cause paranoia although this varies from person to person obviously

Also from strain to strain.. If you try some medium strain like Blueberry i am sure there will be no paranoia. Maybe some laughing : D
People that are troubled should not really smoke it because it makes you think, it makes you think like you never thinked before and from perspectives you never experienced.
Therefore people who have problems can get in paranoia or feel uncomfortable because all of their problems can land on their brain at once. Too much thinking for untrained brain can go wrong ; )

[Kelmendasi]

Also from strain to strain.. If you try some medium strain like Blueberry i am sure there will be no paranoia. Maybe some laughing : D
People that are troubled should not really smoke it because it makes you think, it makes you think like you never thinked before and from perspectives you never experienced.
Therefore people who have problems can get in paranoia or feel uncomfortable because all of their problems can land on their brain at once. Too much thinking for untrained brain can go wrong ; )
HAHAHAHAHA lol, I take it that you have trained your brain for these stuff? ;). Which strain is your personal favorite?

[Dema]

HAHAHAHAHA lol, I take it that you have trained your brain for these stuff? ;). Which strain is your personal favorite?

Yes lol.. im old school : )

I like lots of strains: Jack Herer, Orange bud, Hindu Kush, White Widow, Northern Lights, Afghani, Bubble gum, Purple Haze, you name it..

Along with it, i like fruits and vegetables also sports : ) It really goes well with everything natural and when you are high you cant stand anything unnatural.

When i imagine drugs when im high i would rather shoot myself then take them.. It really pushes you away from everything that is bad for you and makes you like all natural things that are good for you like i pointed already out: Healthy food, healthy drinks, sports, girls, hobbies, whatever..

[Kelmendasi]

Yes lol.. im old school : )

I like lots of strains: Jack Herer, Orange bud, Hindu Kush, White Widow, Northern Lights, Afghani, Bubble gum, Purple Haze, you name it..

Along with it, i like fruits and vegetables also sports : ) It really goes well with everything natural and when you are high you cant stand anything unnatural.

When i imagine drugs when im high i would rather shoot myself then take them.. It really pushes you away from everything that is bad for you and makes you like all natural things that are good for you like i pointed already out: Healthy food, healthy drinks, sports, girls, hobbies, whatever..
It doesn't seem to be bad tbh. What about Strawberry haze, I think it seems pretty good?

[Dema]

It doesn't seem to be bad tbh. What about Strawberry haze, I think it seems pretty good?

Never tried it : D I know that Haze is Sativa dominant, therefore it can push you to some heavy thinking and paranoia, but i believe that is for sure top of the pops. Would really like to try it : D

No, no, its not bad at all, and there is no any addiction or anything. Really gods gift from nature.

[Kelmendasi]

Never tried it : D I know that Haze is Sativa dominant, therefore it can push you to some heavy thinking and paranoia, but i believe that is for sure top of the pops. Would really like to try it : D

No, no, its not bad at all, and there is no any addiction or anything. Really gods gift from nature.
True, ancient populations used it a lot

[Voskos]

i chew olive leaves when im nervous

[Lux Aeterna]

Please no, I take a smackhead over a pothead any day. Now this thread is contaminated, it will just go on and on...

[Demon Revival]

Popping pills because whatevz reason is a degenerate first world problem. It is interesting how these things are administered by any random peculiarity, can be found in every pharmacy yet are more dangerous than a good deal of common illegal drugs.

[Blue Fox]

I regularly see a psychiatrist and he has me on a daily regiment of: fluoxetine 60mg (one capsule a day in the morning), clonazepam 0.5mg (one tablet in the morning and then another tablet at around dinner time), and clonazepam 1mg (one tablet at bedtime for sleep).

My diagnosis is: Major Depressive Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

IMHE the clonazepam 1mg for sleep isn't doing much at all for me, and I've been on various other sleep medications without much success. Triazolam worked for me but it gave me psychiatric side effects (mood swings and a very bad depressive episode) after being on it for about 4 days so I had to stop taking it. My psychiatrist told he would prescribe secobarbital but said he couldn't find a pharmacy that carries it or is willing to order it so he gave me a prescription for clonazepam 1mg instead and told me if I could find a pharmacy that is willing to order and fill a prescription for secobarbital then he would prescribe it for me. I lucked out and found a pharmacy that is willing to do just that so hopefully the next time I see him he will write me a prescription for secobarbital and discontinue the clonazepam 1mg.

I'm also been inpatient (in a psychiatric hospital) on three separate occasions and hopefully never will again.