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Here's my take, as someone diagnosed with OCD/Anxiety. Life can get to a point where it's miserable with OCD. It is exactly like a frog in water that's slowly

Here's my take, as someone diagnosed with OCD/Anxiety. Life can get to a point where it's miserable with OCD. It is exactly like a frog in water that's slowly boiling, that you don't recognize things are getting as bad as they are until one day you just kind of feel REALLY shitty and recognize something is wrong. Medication can really help get over that hump in treatment, and honestly has made it possible for me to accept the problems for what they are. This allows me to move into a "better" place in my own head and be more open and ready for therapy, which I believe gives the far more valuable tools to overcome problems. I have seen a few different doctors in my life, and NEVER has one of them only recommended medication. In fact most have said exactly the above, that medicine should be an enabler to make other therapy more helpful. Maybe I've just gotten lucky with good doctors, but I kind of think this is a common suggestion. A lot of people on here are complaining about big pharma, but my generics cost like 2-3 bucks a month. I don't think GSK and Pfzier are exactly making bank off my mental conditions...

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gph 10y ago
>A lot of people on here are complaining about big pharma, but my generics cost like 2-3 bucks a month. I don't think GSK and Pfzier are exactly making bank off my mental conditions... Not that I disagree with most of your post, but this statement is a bit disingenuous. The fact that there are cheap generics is because Big Pharma already made their money pushing those drugs for 20 years. They might not at this point have a huge profit motive to push these drugs, but the damage is already done. SSRIs are now the standard treatment, and Big Pharma is one of the main reasons that's the case. Given the questionable efficacy of SSRIs, I think it's only right to question the role of Big Pharma in setting our standard practices in medicine/psychiatry.
- iamatworknow 10y ago
  And "small pharma" (or whoever is making the generics) is still making more money than the $2-3 per month because it's subsidized by insurance. I'm on a generic prescription now that with insurance is $5/month, and without was $1400/month. Even if the pharma company accepts less than $1400 through insurance negotiation, I find it difficult to believe that my insurance company haggles well enough to knock the price down to just $5. The profit that even a generic pharmaceutical company makes comes from somewhere.
- nylonstrung 10y ago
  Antidepressants are a 15B market globally. That definitely seems like "making bank" to me, specifically considering it is a pretty consolidated space where that value is being shared by a relatively small number of players. They certainly are not selling them for charitable reasons.
komali2 10y ago
When I went through a bout of depression, I didn't want to medicate because I was convinced I could just "tough it out." Maybe I could have, but over the course of months I never managed it, because the nature of depression is that it depresses your ability to think, act, motivate yourself, etc. A couple months on SSRIs and I was in a place where I could motivate myself to dig out of that hole. That was years ago and the things I learned while I was on SSRIs are enough to help me fight off the random upticks of depression I occasionally get, but now without medication.
- sharkweek 10y ago
  There was honestly no better day in this process for me than having the self-realization that I COULDN'T tough it out on my own; what a liberating feeling, knowing that you're now open to getting help.
op00to 10y ago
Are you comfortable sharing what drugs you have tried? What is your experience with them?
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gph 10y ago

>A lot of people on here are complaining about big pharma, but my generics cost like 2-3 bucks a month. I don't think GSK and Pfzier are exactly making bank off my mental conditions... Not that I disagree with most of your post, but this statement is a bit disingenuous. The fact that there are cheap generics is because Big Pharma already made their money pushing those drugs for 20 years. They might not at this point have a huge profit motive to push these drugs, but the damage is already done. SSRIs are now the standard treatment, and Big Pharma is one of the main reasons that's the case. Given the questionable efficacy of SSRIs, I think it's only right to question the role of Big Pharma in setting our standard practices in medicine/psychiatry.

iamatworknow 10y ago
And "small pharma" (or whoever is making the generics) is still making more money than the $2-3 per month because it's subsidized by insurance. I'm on a generic prescription now that with insurance is $5/month, and without was $1400/month. Even if the pharma company accepts less than $1400 through insurance negotiation, I find it difficult to believe that my insurance company haggles well enough to knock the price down to just $5. The profit that even a generic pharmaceutical company makes comes from somewhere.
nylonstrung 10y ago
Antidepressants are a 15B market globally. That definitely seems like "making bank" to me, specifically considering it is a pretty consolidated space where that value is being shared by a relatively small number of players. They certainly are not selling them for charitable reasons.

komali2 10y ago

When I went through a bout of depression, I didn't want to medicate because I was convinced I could just "tough it out." Maybe I could have, but over the course of months I never managed it, because the nature of depression is that it depresses your ability to think, act, motivate yourself, etc. A couple months on SSRIs and I was in a place where I could motivate myself to dig out of that hole. That was years ago and the things I learned while I was on SSRIs are enough to help me fight off the random upticks of depression I occasionally get, but now without medication.

sharkweek 10y ago
There was honestly no better day in this process for me than having the self-realization that I COULDN'T tough it out on my own; what a liberating feeling, knowing that you're now open to getting help.

op00to 10y ago

Are you comfortable sharing what drugs you have tried? What is your experience with them?

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