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I've quit drinking pretty much completely over the past month, mostly because I started an antidepressant that has helped a lot with my daily anxiety, and that I had reached a point where alcohol wasn't making me feel anything other than nauseous. I started drinking a couple days a week, then just once a week, and now I've run out and I don't have any desire to buy more.
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Feb 5, 2017 15:38
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If you're honestly drinking to self medicate it's way easier to treat the underlying problems and then quit drinking. I finally found an antidepressant that is doing its job and since then I haven't felt that pressure to get drunk in order to feel any kind of relaxation in the evening. I didn't even really have to try to quit drinking, and I haven't had more than a small glass of wine in the past two or three months. Just the thought of getting drunk again seems pretty miserable.
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Mar 8, 2017 02:29
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500 good dogs posted:Yeah but be careful because several of the antidepressant drugs they prescribe can gently caress you up if you drink on them. I've drank on SSRIs, NDRIs, atypical antidepressants, antipsycotics and stimulants. The only one that really made much of a difference was Effexor, but your mileage may vary. Pennywise the Frown posted:edit:^^^^ I'm on an antidepressant soon to be two, one mood stabilizers, one anti-anxiety, and one antipsychotic. What I'm doing is very dumb. I know exactly how you feel because I was in the same place. If I hadn't found something that finally worked well for me I'd still be drinking. Even knowing that alcohol was only making things worse in the long run wasn't really a big enough motivator to make me face being totally miserable.
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Mar 8, 2017 02:53
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Tolkien minority posted:if antidepressants are enough to fix your depression then you aint really depressedi n the first place That's some solid logic you have going.
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Mar 8, 2017 08:41
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Wow I never realized how crazy AA was until DGSW's posts.
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Mar 8, 2017 17:54
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Pennywise the Frown posted:One thing I've noticed is that I only make it about just less than a month before I drink again every time. I'm not sure why. I think it's about the limit before my brain starts taking off a bit too much. Towards the end of that 25 days I started spending a lot of money on hobbies and random poo poo and I was getting maybe a little too energetic and I'd talk a mile a minute which are all signs of hypomania. Again, I'll just have to be mindful of that and try to find some intervention I can put in place before it gets out of hand. After a quick Google search it sounds like alcohol withdrawal can cause manic episodes. Have you tried tapering off instead of just quitting cold turkey?
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Jun 1, 2017 23:06
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah that's pretty much what I did to get off this last time. I'm on meds for bipolar/anxiety/depression, but of course it isn't perfect. Having alcohol out of the picture makes it easier to see what's actually happening on the mental end but it's not easy to handle. Yeah, alcohol really helps with the whole "my brain is loving itself up and there's not much I can do about it" thing. I tried to quit an SSRI over the past two weeks and when I started drinking again I realized that maybe it was a bad idea.
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Jun 1, 2017 23:37
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CaptainSarcastic posted:We're opposites on that - if I took an SSRI it would almost certainly make me want to drink. I tried Paxil again a few years ago and it only took about a week for it to put me into a dysphoric hypomania. It just makes me have fewer bad memories pop up and they don't feel as bad when they do, which is pretty cool so I guess that I'm lucky in that regard.
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Jun 1, 2017 23:54
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That is one of the main reasons I use alcohol. Horrible memories. I'm on two SSRIs, one anti-psychotic, one anti-seizure (mood stabilizer), and one benzo. None of them help with that. Guanfacine and clonidine have been two of the best things for me besides stimulants in regards to bad memories and flashbacks. They still suck when they happen, but they happen much less often.
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Jun 2, 2017 00:03
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