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Bruce Springsteen: Born to withdraw?


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From Rxisk.org today:

 

Bruce Springsteen: Born to withdraw? 

 

Some excerpts from the article:

 

 

I’ve been on anti-depressants for the last twelve to fifteen years of my life, and to a lesser degree but with the same effect they had for my father, they have given me a life I would not have been able to maintain without them. They work. . . . 

 

Antidepressant medication is temperamental. Somewhere around fifty-nine or sixty I noticed the drug I’d been taking seemed to have stopped working. This is not unusual.  . . . 

 

Together we decided to stop the medication I’d been on for five years and see what would happened. DEATH TO MY HOMETOWN!! I nose-dived like the diving horse at the old Atlantic City steel pier into a sloshing tub of grief and tears the like of which I’d never experienced before. . . . 

 

Every meaningless thing became the subject of a world-shattering existential crisis filling me with an awful profound foreboding and sadness.  . . . 

 

Three days and a pill later the waterworks stopped, on a dime. Unbelievable. I returned to myself. I no longer needed to paddle, pump, play or challenge fate. I didn’t need to tour. I felt normal.

 

 

 

This reads like so many people's stories here as far as coming off the drugs goes. I just wish he knew about withdrawal and could have waited longer and healed and not reinstated.

 

This sadly sends a message that these drugs work, that they are safe, and even that they are "cool". Of course, with so much out there in popular culture, it may not pass the 2 second attention span of the media or the people. Just another celebrity, with another type of drug. But it made me sad because I've been a Springsteen fan for longer than I was on drugs . . . . 

 

My comment is in the Boss's own words:

 

Bruce Springsteen - Your Own Worst Enemy  

 

 

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Good song Shep.  Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.  This giving up of self.......and self centeredness........has been the hardest thing for me.  Placing my trust outside of myself somehow.......that it will be alright.  Asking for help..........being honest..........like an open book.........pretty difficult.

 

Maybe he got paid by some drug company?  Maybe he took the easy route?  He is probably a lot like you and me........that's all I know..........maybe he felt he was doing it for his family or something..........short term relief is pretty much the norm these days...........

 

I am just going to pretend I am well.........and if this is as good as it gets..........well, so be it..........good enough......

 

Wishing you well.

 

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Maybe this was his way of resisting the other temptations of the road.  You know, the socially unacceptable ones.  He opted for the "acceptable" one...

"Easy, easy - just go easy and you'll finish." - Hawaiian Kapuna

 

Holding is hard work, holding is a blessing. Give your brain time to heal before you try again.

 

My suggestions are not medical advice, you are in charge of your own medical choices.

 

A lifetime of being prescribed antidepressants that caused problems (30 years in total). At age 35 flipped to "bipolar," but was not diagnosed for 5 years. Started my journey in Midwest United States. Crossed the Pacific for love and hope; currently living in Australia.   CT Seroquel 25 mg some time in 2013.   Tapered Reboxetine 4 mg Oct 2013 to Sept 2014 = GONE (3 years on Reboxetine).     Tapered Lithium 900 to 475 MG (alternating with the SNRI) Jan 2014 - Nov 2014, tapered Lithium 475 mg Jan 2015 -  Feb 2016 = GONE (10 years  on Lithium).  Many mistakes in dry cutting dosages were made.


The tedious thread (my intro):  JanCarol ☼ Reboxetine first, then Lithium

The happy thread (my success story):  JanCarol - Undiagnosed  Off all bipolar drugs

My own blog:  https://shamanexplorations.com/shamans-blog/

 

 

I have been psych drug FREE since 1 Feb 2016!

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This is another Springsteen article that showed up on Rxisk recently:

 

Bruce Springsteen: Born with an Inner Restlessness

 

From the article:

 

I had an attack of what was called “agitated depression”. During this period, I was so profoundly uncomfortable in my own skin that I just wanted OUT. It feels dangerous and bring plenty of unwanted thoughts. I was uncomfortable doing anything. Standing …walking …sitting down…everything brought waves of an agitated anxiety that I’d spend every waking minute trying to dispel. Demise and foreboding were all that awaited and sleep was the only respite. During waking hours, I’d spend the day trying to find a position I would feel all right in for the next few minutes. I was not hyper. In fact, I was too depressed to concentrate on anything of substance.

 

 

This sounds like the very definition of akathisia. 

 

 

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Shep i totally agree.

Thought for the day: Lets stand up, and let’s speak out , together. G Olsen

We have until the 14th. Feb 2018. 

URGENT REQUEST Please consider submitting  for the petition on Prescribed Drug Dependence and Withdrawal currently awaiting its third consideration at the Scottish Parliament. You don't even have to be from Scotland. By clicking on the link below you can read some of the previous submissions but be warned many of them are quite harrowing.

http://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/PE01651   

Please tell them about your problems taking and withdrawing from antidepressants and/or benzos.

Send by email to petitions@parliament.scot and quote PE01651 in the subject heading. Keep to a maximum of 3 sides of A4 and you can't name for legal reasons any doctor you have consulted. Tell them if you wish to remain anonymous. We need the numbers to help convince the committee members we are not isolated cases. You have until mid February. Thank you

Recovering paxil addict

None of the published articles shed light on what ssri's ... actually do or what their hazards might be. Healy 2013. 

This is so true, with anything you get on these drugs, dependance, tapering, withdrawal symptoms, side effects, just silent. And if there is something mentioned then their is a serious disconnect between what is said and reality! 

  "Every time I read of a multi-person shooting, I always presume that person had just started a SSRI or had just stopped."  Dr Mosher. Me too! 

Over two decades later, the number of antidepressant prescriptions a year is slightly more than the number of people in the Western world. Most (nine out of 10) prescriptions are for patients who faced difficulties on stopping, equating to about a tenth of the population. These patients are often advised to continue treatment because their difficulties indicate they need ongoing treatment, just as a person with diabetes needs insulin. Healy 2015

I believe the ssri era will soon stand as one of the most shameful in the history of medicine. Healy 2015

Let people help people ... in a natural, kind, non-addictive (and non-big pharma) way. J Broadley 2017

 

 

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