People on anti depressents in the uk ?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Deleted member 61728
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Its completely and utterly ridiculous.

People need a kick up the backside and told to get the hell on with it, instead of sitting on their arse popping happy pills at my expense.

Depression is a joke in most cases, there is only a small minority that suffer in the TRUE sense of the clinical meaning.
 
Is that right?

Out of a group of about 60 people I see with regularity, only 6 have been on them, and 4 currently on them.

Maybe it's more prominent up in the grim north :p
 
because from the age of dot we are told we will all be fantastic and amazing and then we spend our adult life chasing money to pay bills we can barely afford to pay, in jobs we can't bear to work in, to provide a pittance for us to 'live' off of when we do eventually retire (if we do) to 'live' out our last few days?

unfortunately many of the social structures that helped people cope years ago have been deconstructed and now people see no way other then medication because there is something apparently 'wrong' with them.
 
its called reading comprehension, you should try it.

23 million PERSCRIPTIONS a year, not 23mil people. Say its a months worth of pills at a time, maybe 2, you're talking about 23mil/6, or 12, maybe more, which not surprisingly gives a FAR lower number of people. Of course others are on other anti depression pills but far far lower numbers take anything but SSRI's.
 
~~#M-Bizzle#~~ said:
Its completely and utterly ridiculous.

People need a kick up the backside and told to get the hell on with it, instead of sitting on their arse popping happy pills at my expense.

Depression is a joke in most cases, there is only a small minority that suffer in the TRUE sense of the clinical meaning.
Click to expand...

I wish there was a depression pill that people can take to see what depression is really like, afterwards you'd sound less stupid.

Andi.
 
I was on them last year for 6 months. Did their job and I'm 'well' again now.

I just found myself unable to find the enthusiasm for anything. I'm a creative person but I just couldn't face starting a new project and I just stopped living in general so to speak. I just didn't feel like doing anything at all. Then my ex went and did the nasty on me, told the truth about the 3 years of lies she'd fed me and I just left her, went to the doctors, got some happy pills and I've not looked back :)
 
~~#M-Bizzle#~~ said:
Its completely and utterly ridiculous.

People need a kick up the backside and told to get the hell on with it, instead of sitting on their arse popping happy pills at my expense.

Depression is a joke in most cases, there is only a small minority that suffer in the TRUE sense of the clinical meaning.
Click to expand...

And how would you have a clue?

I was depressed three years ago and it was ****ing horrible. I refused to go on any medication for it [denial, mostly] but if you are actually depressed it's a nasty thing to go through.

I can't imagine doctors would wrongly prescribe antidepressants in most cases. There's a difference between people who hold a prescription and people who say, "oh no, I'm depressed" and then they're fine the next day.
 
That's 23 million prescriptions, not 23 million people on the drugs. To estimate the number of people taking antidepressants at any one time you need to know the average frequency of a prescription.

If we assume, for the sake of argument, that the average prescription frequency is 4 weeks, then you're looking at 3.68 million people - around 6% of the population. This seems like a lot more realistic proportion
 
Read it in the Guardian not long ago that 1 in 3 women are on/been on anti-depressants, and you know what, it's probably true as I found out a good friend of mine has been on it for a while and another one just started on it.

Link - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/11/mental-health-women-crisis

Where men would tend to suck it up and sweep it under the carpet so the numbers of men would have been on it are lower than reported.

But it is silly, are people's lives really getting that bad these days in modern society? Or are all our mental state gotten weaker and threshold for stress has plummeted? Or are the medical profession prescribing these pills like confetti, partly as a placebo effect to make the patient feel better (they might be real anti-depressants, but the actual action of giving the prescription has more a positive effect than the chemical effect of the medicine), or does the medical profession set the bar for depression so low that mere sadness can qualify as being depressed?
 
~~#M-Bizzle#~~ said:
Its completely and utterly ridiculous.

People need a kick up the backside and told to get the hell on with it, instead of sitting on their arse popping happy pills at my expense.

Depression is a joke in most cases, there is only a small minority that suffer in the TRUE sense of the clinical meaning.
Click to expand...

Is that an expert opinion Dr M Bizzle?!
 
~~#M-Bizzle#~~ said:
Its completely and utterly ridiculous.

People need a kick up the backside and told to get the hell on with it, instead of sitting on their arse popping happy pills at my expense.

Depression is a joke in most cases, there is only a small minority that suffer in the TRUE sense of the clinical meaning.
Click to expand...

I take it your are a trains (and recognised) Psychologist or Psychiatrist? Nah didn't think so.

If mental illness was as easy to recover from as just "pulling your socks up" or having a "kick up the backside" then I don't think it would be such a prevalent and serious problem.

Hopefully you never get depressed (or any other mental illness - it's not all about depression) but if you do you will see it isn't as simple as you make out. You will also find out that i can be far far more crippling and damaging than a psychical illness.
 
Pancakes said:
And how would you have a clue?

I was depressed three years ago and it was ****ing horrible. I refused to go on any medication for it [denial, mostly] but if you are actually depressed it's a nasty thing to go through.

I can't imagine doctors would wrongly prescribe antidepressants in most cases. There's a difference between people who hold a prescription and people who say, "oh no, I'm depressed" and then they're fine the next day.
Click to expand...

Dude, you got a pancake on your head, hard to take serious what you say :rolleyes:

:p:p:p:p:p:p

Fully agree with you. I had depression about 5 years ago and it's hard to explain to people. I'm generally, and still is, a very happy person that just gets on with it, but that was hell.

I never took antidepressants as I didn't consider myself to be depressed at the time. It was only looking back that I realised what I had wrong with me.

I used to wake up in the mornings and felt so bad I could cry. A few times I did. I just forced myself to get on with things and gradually I got better.
 
LordSplodge said:
Hopefully you never get depressed (or any other mental illness - it's not all about depression) but if you do you will see it isn't as simple as you make out. You will also find out that i can be far far more crippling and damaging than a psychical illness.
Click to expand...

Indeed. I was the first person to think people were complaining too much and needed to sort themselves out.

Until I had it. Then I thought twice about criticising others.
 
regulus said:
Dude, you got a pancake on your head, hard to take serious what you say :rolleyes:

:p:p:p:p:p:p
Click to expand...

I know, it's hard to talk seriously about depression looking like this!

regulus said:
I used to wake up in the mornings and felt so bad I could cry. A few times I did. I just forced myself to get on with things and gradually I got better.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I woke up at night having panic attacks and thinking I would die at any moment. I then planned out my own suicide.

Fun!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom