I honestly think they should only prescribe dopamine- and serotonin-enhancing/inhibiting drugs on a very short term basis. I’m appalled at how bad the aftermath is: I stopped taking them because I’d forgotten to do so for four days, due to recurrent dysmenorrhea/fibroids and realised I was actually feeling something for the first time in a year. Meanwhile I’ve put on 1.8st and lost 1/3 of my thick wavy hair - both known side effects (others I wasn’t aware of was a heightened risk of heart problems, suicidal ideation and diabetes (!!!?!). A medical researcher I know told me they [the scientific establishment] don’t know exactly what antidepressants do as yet; trials are still ongoing. Seems pretty reckless to put millions of people on substances whose mechanism is unclear!
I wonder if Alice is, or ever has been on any antidepressants or mood stabilisers? She’s up, she’s down, she’s maudlin, she’s jumping off tables, she’s lying under bedside cupboards, she’s threatening to ‘cut someone’, she’s puking/rolling/TERRIFIED. I can’t wait for her psychiatric evaluation. I imagine that the shrink is going to head straight for the whisky bottle at the end of the day. When - not if, when - she is diagnosed with personality disorders and comorbidities, can she be legally compelled to take medication? As a way of allowing her partial custody? And will therapy be mandatory, I wonder -
@Hiraeth, any ideas?
ETA: congratulations on your achievement! Ihope everything goes well for you, and that you can really *live* again.