Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exercise and eating healthy.

Best not to medicate with prescription drugs, unless they are at the point of becoming institutionalized. Even alcohol would be preferrable to SSRI/NSRI/downers.

I actually agree with this. The withdrawl from these drugs was awful for me.

Withdrawal from alcohol addiction can be worse, just saying.

Anonymous wrote:As a parent whose child fought meds tooth and nail, I want to point out that your child ASKED for meds. Please see this as your child’s plea for help. Give something s try, sooner rather than later, and switch it up if it does not work in some way.

I wish you and your child so much peace.

+1.

See a psychiatrist who will work with you and your child to find the medication that works well. Therapy is important - so are meds for some people.

OP, you should contact Jeff through the website, feedback forum and ask him to move this post to the special-needs forum. You will get much better advice because there are many more parents who have experience with children on SSRI medication.

Anonymous wrote:Exercise and eating healthy.

Best not to medicate with prescription drugs, unless they are at the point of becoming institutionalized. Even alcohol would be preferrable to SSRI/NSRI/downers.

+1. OP, what have you tried before jumping to medication?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an adult who takes Prozac to manage my anxiety symptoms. Why does it make you nervous?

Because it increases dwell time of serotonin and perhaps other neurotransmitters, in the synapse of the neurons. This causes overexcitement in the brain and anxiety. However over time it will dull the response and damage the neurons, so it then can cause slower brain activity.

Changing the dosage or medication type of SSRI will often cause a reboot of this activity and more neural activity, until the drug does more harm again and settles the neural activity.

Do you have some evidence or cite for the claim that SSRI’s overtime, dull a response and damage, neurons and cause slower brain activity?

The things you say don’t necessarily go together. Increased seratonin in the synapse does not automatically cause “overexcitement in the brain” nor anxiety. Some people who take SSRIs experience an increased level of agitation or anxiety, but these symptoms often go away after a few weeks, and, in fact, are FDA-approved for treating generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, OCD, and social anxiety disorder. FDA approved means that clinical trials have shown a meaningful improvement in anxiety for people with these diagnoses.

It is true that SSRI’s can increase or decrease activity in certain brain regions. A decrease in certain brain regions may actually be helpful for someone who is depressed and who is ruminating which can be a reflection of too much brain activity. Continued use of antidepressants leads to new cell growth(by 20-40%) in an area of the brain known to suffer cell death and atrophy as a result of depression and stress. (I see the December 15 article in the journal of neuroscience by Ronald Newman.). Similar cell growth was seen after 14 to 28 days of administration of antidepressants.

Anonymous wrote:Exercise and eating healthy.

Best not to medicate with prescription drugs, unless they are at the point of becoming institutionalized. Even alcohol would be preferrable to SSRI/NSRI/downers.

Are you a Scientologist or something?

Anonymous wrote:Talk therapy.

This made my daughter‘s anxiety worse which I think is important to point out because everyone is different. After trying to work with a psychologist through talk therapy for many months, she finally told us that in order to crack the surface with our daughter she probably needed to try an SSRI. We value the importance of both therapy and medications when it’s needed.

Anonymous wrote:Zoloft. I think that’s the most commonly prescribed pediatric SSRI

My 15-year-old takes this too and has been on it for two years. In addition to handling her daily anxiety it also helps with what we found out was PMDD – a type of depression around her period. She is still moody as teens are And can be “difficult”, but we see a huge change for the positive, especially when it comes to family vacations and events where she’s out of her normal routine. Family members also comment on how much more talkative she is now which is so interesting to me because I never realized she didn’t speak to them much at family events Because she talks to me all the time!

Talk therapy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an adult who takes Prozac to manage my anxiety symptoms. Why does it make you nervous?

Because it increases dwell time of serotonin and perhaps other neurotransmitters, in the synapse of the neurons. This causes overexcitement in the brain and anxiety. However over time it will dull the response and damage the neurons, so it then can cause slower brain activity.

Changing the dosage or medication type of SSRI will often cause a reboot of this activity and more neural activity, until the drug does more harm again and settles the neural activity.

I am not totally anti-meds but this point does concern me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exercise and eating healthy.

Best not to medicate with prescription drugs, unless they are at the point of becoming institutionalized. Even alcohol would be preferrable to SSRI/NSRI/downers.

Speaking as the spouse of an alcoholic who got that way via self-treatment of unmedicated mood disorder—nope. Absolutely not.

Tongue in cheek.

Anonymous wrote:Exercise and eating healthy.

Best not to medicate with prescription drugs, unless they are at the point of becoming institutionalized. Even alcohol would be preferrable to SSRI/NSRI/downers.

Speaking as the spouse of an alcoholic who got that way via self-treatment of unmedicated mood disorder—nope. Absolutely not.

Anonymous wrote:I am an adult who takes Prozac to manage my anxiety symptoms. Why does it make you nervous?

Because it increases dwell time of serotonin and perhaps other neurotransmitters, in the synapse of the neurons. This causes overexcitement in the brain and anxiety. However over time it will dull the response and damage the neurons, so it then can cause slower brain activity.

Changing the dosage or medication type of SSRI will often cause a reboot of this activity and more neural activity, until the drug does more harm again and settles the neural activity.

Zoloft started at 25mgs and felt relief immediately. On 50mgs now for almost a year no issues. very helpful

Anonymous wrote:Exercise and eating healthy.

Best not to medicate with prescription drugs, unless they are at the point of becoming institutionalized. Even alcohol would be preferrable to SSRI/NSRI/downers.

I actually agree with this. The withdrawl from these drugs was awful for me.