{"id":216,"date":"2010-11-04T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eliason-family.com\/nick\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-11-04T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:58:04","slug":"ehh-anti-depressants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Ehh&#8230; Anti-Depressants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last month, I&#8217;ve begun attending counseling sessions. Recently, I&#8217;ve been recommended to begin taking anti-depressants to help me fight everything that is holding me back from accomplishing my goals. I am severely concerned about the physiological part of these types of drugs however. I&#8217;ve watched some people who&#8217;ve taken them, and began to gain weight uncontrollably, they seem to dumb down a bit, and overall become dependant on this &#8220;medicine,&#8221; to live. I do NOT want this to become of me. I&#8217;m already ashamed of what I&#8217;ve let myself become, and I do -not- want to become something worse: an addict.<\/p>\n<p>So, as needless as this is to ask: What are your thoughts on this kind of medications?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do they work? How?<\/li>\n<li>Are the side-effects something to fear?<\/li>\n<li>Addictiveness?<\/li>\n<li>Will I begin to think\/react differently?<\/li>\n<li>What if they don&#8217;t work?<\/li>\n<li>Are they long-term or short-term solutions?\n<ul>\n<li>If long, how long? Will I ever stop?<\/li>\n<li>If short, how do I stop them? How fast do they work?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>SHOULD I DO THIS?!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just some of the questions I&#8217;ve been able to come up with after two minutes of thinking. I have a next-to-unlimited amount of questions that I could ask about them&#8230; I just don&#8217;t know what to decide about this. Any help at all would be completely wanted, and appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last month, I&#8217;ve begun attending counseling sessions. Recently, I&#8217;ve been recommended to begin taking anti-depressants to help me fight everything that is holding me back from accomplishing my goals. I am severely concerned about the physiological part of these types of drugs however. I&#8217;ve watched some people who&#8217;ve taken them, and began to [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}