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Ms. Toad

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15. I'm far more likely to blame treatment, than depression

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:13 PM

Mar 2015

My daughter lives with anxiety and depression - unmedicated by choice. For a while, she took anti-depressants prescribed by an idiot who decided it was a good idea to abandon her as a patient while she was on about double the dose she should have been on (even without the reaction below). Because he was not monitoring her and asking her the questions he should have been asking, she was unable to distinguish feelings that might have been what is feels like to finally like to be free from depression - from drug fueled mania because of an ideopathic (but not terribly uncommon) reaction to the drugs.

In that state, particularly since she was unaware what she was experiencing was drug induced, she was unable to control her actions and put her life - and the lives of others at risk, although not as dramatically as Lubitz. Fortunately she is only living with the emotional aftermath of having behaved in ways she now finds offensive - and the fear which keeps her away from obtaining proper treatment (whether pharmaceutical or not).

I applaud the call for better and more accessible treatment for those with mental health conditions.

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Don�t blame depression for the Germanwings tragedy [View all] Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 OP

Churchill, Matisse, and Dickens were not pilots with hundreds of lives in their hands. Dreamer Tatum Mar 2015 #1

Thank you for this note of 'sanity', no pun intended! Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #2

Churchill arguably had tens of millions of lives in his hands at one point Fumesucker Mar 2015 #4

Yes, I recall that harrowing story of him flying all of England over the Alps. Dreamer Tatum Mar 2015 #7

There is more than one way to have lives in your hands... Fumesucker Mar 2015 #9

The Native American is disappearing. Dreamer Tatum Mar 2015 #14

That pilot made a decision that cost over a hundred people their lives... Fumesucker Mar 2015 #33

"Hi, Fumesucker. This suicidal depressed politician will be helping form US Policy. THIS one... Dreamer Tatum Mar 2015 #35

Had to laugh! cwydro Mar 2015 #18

Sorry, not making light of mental illness, but...LOL! Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #21

+1 Blue_Tires Mar 2015 #26

I would be interested to see how the psychiatric and psychological community weigh in on this. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #3

If they're on an airplane when you ask them, I'll hazard a guess that they don't want him flying. nt Dreamer Tatum Mar 2015 #5

We don't let want people with depression so severe it would require hospitalization flying./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #8

Do we know if the pilot had "depression so sever it would require hospitalization"? cbdo2007 Mar 2015 #30

I don't know ...I'm just establishing a benchmark./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #34

Lots and lots of broadcast time here in France being spent interviewing Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #6

Are you saying treating mental illness is upaloopa Mar 2015 #11

I mean there are more people on tranquilizers in France than in any Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #13

What are the tranquilizers? upaloopa Mar 2015 #16

Most popular--and prescribed by the ton... Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #19

These are not anti-depressants but a different category, anti-anxiety medicines uppityperson Mar 2015 #23

I was prescribed an SSRI for anxiety. KMOD Mar 2015 #32

Hi again, UP. Only just happened upon this interesting post from you... Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #36

depression is often a side effect of merely being informed Man from Pickens Mar 2015 #10

^^^This!^^^ Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #12

I'm far more likely to blame treatment, than depression Ms. Toad Mar 2015 #15

Thanks, Ms. Toad, for adding this first-hand account to Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #17

They've mentioned he had depression in the past. cwydro Mar 2015 #20

Details will be emerging shortly, I suspect. Plus, they're Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #22

I wondered when they would cwydro Mar 2015 #25

Thank you for this thread. The lbn thread has a lot of ugly misconceptions in it. uppityperson Mar 2015 #24

I hope you're being sincere, Uppityperson. As I said in your Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #27

I am and I know, it isn't just you and most likely internet communication issues. uppityperson Mar 2015 #28

Thanks for the clarification, UP, and best wishes to you, too, my dear. Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #29

that drug company could be to blame. partly. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #31

AMEN!! I have dealt with depression and other serious mental health issues all my life Douglas Carpenter Mar 2015 #37

Along the same lines... Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #40

I can't make sense of the OP Yorktown Mar 2015 #38

Quote is directly from 'The Guardian'... Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #39

Are you saying depression had nothing to do with it? Marrah_G Mar 2015 #41

Couldn't agree more that 'stigmatizing people with depression is not the the same... Surya Gayatri Mar 2015 #42