DarkTriad69 Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 it's true. and it's misleading. taken antidepressants and anti psychotics and mood stabilizers for over 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickler Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 Yeah...but I was an asshole! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondernut Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 I am curious do you want to elaborate on your statement or is that it? the whole topic? and I agree with Stickler ..not that Stickler was an asshole I have not seen that ever! but that meds made me easier to be around that is for sure and my days a bit brighter and more joyful .....but me I am still here and my personality is the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTriad69 Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 I am curious do you want to elaborate on your statement or is that it? the whole topic? and I agree with Stickler ..not that Stickler was an asshole I have not seen that ever! but that meds made me easier to be around that is for sure and my days a bit brighter and more joyful .....but me I am still here and my personality is the same http://www.michaelteachings.com/glossary.html Read the Roles. I am a Sage and now feel and AM a king role. this is bad because it's masking my true personality, my true essence. it is against nature. i do not like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryp Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 Since this is generally a pro-medication site and a lot of us love our meds to death, you probably won't get much agreement there. If the person I am off my meds is my real self, I'd rather be someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTriad69 Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 Since this is generally a pro-medication site and a lot of us love our meds to death, you probably won't get much agreement there. If the person I am off my meds is my real self, I'd rather be someone else. I mean I need medication for a awhile and am really bad off it, its just that i dont like that it changes my personality and something artifical lingers inside me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celestia Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 If what science says is true (that ADs correct a chemical imbalance) then, actually, you are more yourself when you are ON the meds kwim? I hate the person I am unmedicated. It's not *me* at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTriad69 Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 If what science says is true (that ADs correct a chemical imbalance) then, actually, you are more yourself when you are ON the meds. I hate the person I am unmedicated. It's not *me* at all. i dont want to go against the current on this site i just want to advocate that meds do change people inside and outside. ive taken numerous types of meds and ive felt and reacted differently on each one(well, most.) i feel able to do better with people and interacting with people better on this medication better than any of the anti depressants ive EVER taken. BUT, this is not the true me. The world looks different to me, not in a good or bad way, just weird and different. very strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryp Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 That sounds pretty upsetting. I've never really had that experience. Have you mentioned it to a therapist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTriad69 Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 That sounds pretty upsetting. I've never really had that experience. Have you mentioned it to a therapist? no it is a bit depressing but i can deal with it. its like color is drained out in the world. like nothing seems like it seems. i was at the gym and when i was running a pole was wobbling. i sat down yesterday on the edge of my couch and it felt like i was on a boat in an ocean lol like it was rocking back and forth. its strange. plus everything looks much bigger and larger to me. very weird, i will tell my pdoc everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorrel Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 I am missing what your perceptual weirdness (motion, sizes etc) has to do with meds changing your personality? Meds have changed my personality, yes. But I feel like my personality with meds is the real one, like I was as a kid before I had symptoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarie Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 That sounds pretty upsetting. I've never really had that experience. Have you mentioned it to a therapist? no it is a bit depressing but i can deal with it. its like color is drained out in the world. like nothing seems like it seems. i was at the gym and when i was running a pole was wobbling. i sat down yesterday on the edge of my couch and it felt like i was on a boat in an ocean lol like it was rocking back and forth. its strange. plus everything looks much bigger and larger to me. very weird, i will tell my pdoc everything I'd defintiely talk to your pdoc about those perceptual changes. Something's not quite right since meds should not effect such perceptions if working correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickler Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Who says your role wasn't meant to be more of a leadership one all along? Hey, I looked on that site...I'm not sure I agree with that narrow range of archetypal roles...I *wish* I was a destroyer goddess, but I'm afraid, when I look at my life and all its' wrinkles, the archetype of the fool fits me far better. Could it also be you're trying to wedge yourself into an overly-compressed psychospiritual paradigm? It's a great big universe(and we're all really puny). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTriad69 Posted June 29, 2010 Author Share Posted June 29, 2010 Hey, I looked on that site...I'm not sure I agree with that narrow range of archetypal roles...I *wish* I was a destroyer goddess, but I'm afraid, when I look at my life and all its' wrinkles, the archetype of the fool fits me far better. Could it also be you're trying to wedge yourself into an overly-compressed spiritual paradigm? It's a great big universe(and we're all really puny). every person you know has a role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveyoursanity Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 If the person I am off my meds is my real self, I'd rather be someone else. Quoted for pure fucking truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickler Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I am a Sage and now feel and AM a king role. this is bad because it's masking my true personality, my true essence. it is against nature. i do not like it. every person you know has a role. From what source did you acquire this unique information about yourself? Why do you believe this source to be infallible and able to decide, that, for your ENTIRE CURRENT incarnation, you MUST inhabit the role of a sage? That the phase of existence labeled SAGE is one that may only be left in between incarnate phases, as opposed to within one carnate phase? and if so why? And can you explain it without requiring me to read the entire website, since I figured out Buddhist philosophy sauces my spiritual taco more than New-Age philosophy? Not to be rude or anything, but if I read too much text on a computer screen, my eyes hurt. Oh, and as a queer in Texas, I have a long history of people telling me I'm against nature, so I just sorta instinctively say,"really?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTriad69 Posted June 29, 2010 Author Share Posted June 29, 2010 I am a Sage and now feel and AM a king role. this is bad because it's masking my true personality, my true essence. it is against nature. i do not like it. every person you know has a role. From what source did you acquire this unique information about yourself? Why do you believe this source to be infallible and able to decide, that, for your ENTIRE CURRENT incarnation, you MUST inhabit the role of a sage? That the phase of existence labeled SAGE is one that may only be left in between incarnate phases, as opposed to within one carnate phase? and if so why? And can you explain it without requiring me to read the entire website, since I figured out Buddhist philosophy sauces my spiritual taco more than New-Age philosophy? Not to be rude or anything, but if I read too much text on a computer screen, my eyes hurt. Oh, and as a queer in Texas, I have a long history of people telling me I'm against nature, so I just sorta instinctively say,"really?" this shit is real. plus, i just didnt take my meds (I take them at 10) and I was true to myself. I felt like myself and how I felt for the past 19 years. meds mask your true personality. id rather be myself than live a lie. and dont read that article. i got depressed and almost suicidal reading that shit. NOONE READ THAT FUCKING ARTICLE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickler Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I view any metaphysical system in terms of practical application...and am prone to personalize and/or wahoo parts of any metaphysical systems left lying around sufficiently unattended... What I was (gently, from my point of view) trying to point out is that your discontent seems to be springing from your conviction that you fit into this one role, that of the sage/artist/performer type person, but now that you're on meds, you're becoming more of a king/leader/, with a goal of dominating other people, controlling situations, being more realistic, down to earth, aggressive. Perhaps you were initially mistaken about being a sage? What I was asking is, how do you know? and also, since I'm not familiar with your system, why is it that you cannot change roles over a lifetime? Why is it that Michael says we have to be stuck in just one role? Putting on my sociology major hat now, I would say what you're experiencing is a result of getting your disorder under control, but much more a result of a natural maturation process. Now, getting Junger, the prince (that you were), the moody and dreamy prince, is starting to morph into the King in command of his Kingdom. Nowhere in that did I say your metaphysical system isn't valid. If it is valid for you, then it's valid. Maybe you should Email the channeler? (Mine is valid too, and quite different.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olga Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I'm responding to the title of the topic: "Anti-depressants change your personality" I have not taken anything except antidepressants. I am the same person I have always been. I am pushing 60 and I have friends who have known me my whole life. Some of them have no idea I'm taking meds, because I am the same olga I always was. I'll read your article when I get time. olga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 it's true. and it's misleading. taken antidepressants and anti psychotics and mood stabilizers for over 4 years. What definition of personality are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderk Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Hmmm, just browsing the glossary at 'Michael's' site is a little dizzying, Quite the mishmash of philosophies, quasireligions and the like. You might get someone here to nibble and commence some kind of flamewar. But I like what some others have posed...do you really have a question for these boards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsessed Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I am missing what your perceptual weirdness (motion, sizes etc) has to do with meds changing your personality? Meds have changed my personality, yes. But I feel like my personality with meds is the real one, like I was as a kid before I had symptoms. agreed, for sure. i had this convo with someone the other day who commented that i was a 'new person.' i informed him, no, im the person i was before i felt like shit all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondernut Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo 'n dye Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I too looked at the site linked to previously in this conversation. The first clue of the mishmash to be found in the glossary was evident in the quote at the top of the page attributed to "Michael", "You are spiritual beings on a human path." While not verbatim, it certainly rings of being borrowed from Stephen R. Covey's more famous quote, “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.” As for anti-depressants changing my personality, well, they have not changed my personality rather they restored my personality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTriad69 Posted June 30, 2010 Author Share Posted June 30, 2010 wow dude i'm off my meds now (Saphris gets out of your system in like 24 hours and i feel and AM a whole different person. the world looks like normal again, i am normal again. when i take saphris i AM a king role according to michaelsteachings, my dog reminds me of my therapist and i am more judgmental about people which is very bad, and comes through my body language. i am off meds and everything i just said is reversed. i feel and am a Sage, not a King. i dunno maybe JUST saphris changes peoples personalities. very strange med, if you want to feel and be the king role take Saphris lol!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 We're being trolled here folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffybirdie Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Most people in my life don't know I'm on anything, and nobody has ever pulled me aside and been like " wow--you've changed!". If anything I'm just less of an asshole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bribarian Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Gonna go ahead and disagree with this topic. ADs don't change personality, they just make you the person you were before getting depressed and anxious all the time. That's it. If you're saying THAT is the change then I suppose you're right. Rather than being the depressed you, you're the not depressed you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fasteddy Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I started taking anti-depressants because of migraine headaches. I was reluctant to take them because the notion of how they'd change my mood scared me. I started taking them during a very stressful period in my life and my migraines had become unbearable. The medication (nortriplyline) greatly reduced/eliminated my migraine headaches but I noticed a lot of undesirable personality changes I didn't like. I assumed they'd go away once I stopped taking the meds. The negative changes were a greatly diminished sex drive, a general malaise about most everything (i.e. I didn't really care one way or another about much of anything), and the feeling that I couldn't reason well or analyze effectively. I stopped taking the meds late last November and much of those "side effects" never went away. I've been off them since late Novemeber 2009 and my sex drive never returned. I'm not as smart as I once was, either. I've lost a lot of the intense passion I had for things. Likewise, my moods are much more stable or resistant to ups and downs...but often I find it annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitriol Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 it's true. and it's misleading. taken antidepressants and anti psychotics and mood stabilizers for over 4 years. totally agree with you. I know it and people around me notice it too. I too prefer myself "on meds". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lachesis Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Medication changing personality? That was my concern when I first was introduced to psychiatric medicine. Now that I know it is not true, I realize that they help me be myself. Before then I did not know who I was so I did not know what my personality would be. Does that make sense? I only knew that I was in trouble and expected any change to be for the worse. That is depression talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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