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TexasBushwhacker

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4. I feel the same way. I am alive because of antidepressants

Reply to John1956PA (Reply #2)

Tue May 30, 2023, 10:39 PM

May 2023

Over the 45 years since my first episode of major depression, I have taken just about every kind of antidepressant, as well as combinations and occasionally low doses of antipsychotics. Every time I've tapered off, with my doctor's guidance, I've ended up in the hospital. It's just my row to hoe. My dad was bipolar.

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I feel the same way. I am alive because of antidepressants TexasBushwhacker May 2023 #4