Monday, 30 August 2010

Coping with coming off self-medication

Anyone who's had an addiction to antidepressant drugs - legal or
illegal ones - will know how hard it can be to come off. The depression
can be subtle or it can be clear for anyone else to see.

A friend of a friend was recovering from alcoholism and sexual
addiction. It made him very unhappy and in the end the doctors
prescribed him antidepressants.

Self-medication drugs offer a different type of happiness. Skunk, for
example, is philosophers pain killer for the soul. Alcohol serves as the
creatives' emotional and thought enhancer., a very different happiness
from those that prefer a lack of emotions and deep thought.

The difficulty of coping with coming off prescription drugs is becoming
more recognised and the danger of ceasing dosage abruptly is well
recognised. It isn't with coping with coming off illegal drugs. In fact
there are foolish paradigms such as detoxing which can torture a person
who's b ben self-medicating for years. Pregnant mothers may also
experience a similar emotional pain during the lifestyle changes
involved during pregnancy.

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