While I can’t find the exact scene, almost precisely this happens in The Simpsons, I think in the episode “The Good, The Bad, and the Drugly.”
Time to use anxiety to get out of anxiety
“The anti-anxiety meds for anxiety about taking anti-anxiety meds can cause nausea, so you’ll also need these anti-nausea meds”
“Yeah, so the anti-nausea meds can cause diarrhoea, so you’ll need these anti-diarrhoea meds”
“Of course, the anti-diarrhoea meds can make your skin all itchy, so you’ll need these anti-itching meds”
“Just so you’re aware, these anti-itching meds can cause anxiety…”
My doc said it’s okay to start trying to decrease my dosage (antidep) since I had returned to work full time. A month later, the depression came back so hard, I could hear it. It’s better now that we readjusted/increased the dosage. He told me, some people need to be on SSRI their whole loves. Ugh… That was hard to hear. While I actively work against the demonization of medication, it still felt like a blow below the belt. My therapist wants me to think of medication as crutches.
If you look at this like the physical imbalance of chemicals it is, it’s a bit easier to accepr/understand.
Thanks. I’ve heard other depressed people say the same. It does make it somewhat easier, while at the same time making me think, “I’m a broken specimen who in a nature/wild setting would’ve died before turning 15 years”.
90% of us. Anyone who says otherwise probably records reruns of Joe Rogan.
I don’t think that was the takeaway from your doc.
