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BWdem4life

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10. Failure?

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 02:57 PM

Oct 2024

If you decided you didn't need some other medication (such as for high blood pressure) and then began having symptoms related to not taking your prescribed medication, would that be a failure?

As someone who has been taking an anti-depressant for the past 13 years and tried several times to get off it, I can only suggest that you consider it a permanent thing now and don't view it as some kind of personal failure that your brain is not wired correctly, and is in need of a bit of pharmaceutical help that fortunately exists now.

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I stopped taking Wellbutrin a couple of months ago [View all] cyclonefence Oct 2024 OP

I've been taking it for years, had a major depressive episode. Walleye Oct 2024 #1

Thanks cyclonefence Oct 2024 #2

Taking care of yourself is a victory, not a failure! Easterncedar Oct 2024 #3

Good for you for trying. I know i'll never be off an SSRI. applegrove Oct 2024 #4

It is our physiology, not our character Dear_Prudence Oct 2024 #5

Well said vanamonde Oct 2024 #8

I knew I was near-sighted, but thought glasses were for nerds so didn't want to wear them. lark Oct 2024 #9

"Anxiety is the Mother of Depression". You are doing the right thing, recognizing you need to go back on Welbutrin! BamaRefugee Oct 2024 #6

News alert MFM008 Oct 2024 #7

Failure? BWdem4life Oct 2024 #10

Yeah, I'm going to have to start again TexasBushwhacker Oct 2024 #11

Get back on asap cyclonefence Oct 2024 #12