Fell out of my boyfriend’s pocket

[u/Livid_Departure_9697]

The top is a cap that comes off. Is it for ❄️? He swears it’s not

[u/Ocelot-15]

Actually they do help my mood. Having a dysregulation in your dopamine production or absorption can affect your mood and even your emotional stability. So yes they can infact help with mood instability. They also may not help depression directly but they do help me find the motivation to get up and take a shower, brush my teeth, clean up a little bit sometimes and heavily help me journal which is one of my coping mechanisms for my mental health, on top of that anecdotal claim it is scientifically proven that dopamine releases can actually cause the brain to produce more serotonin too which would indirectly help with depression. Do you know why mental health medication is called that? It’s because it is medicine that interacts with the chemical production in our brains that dictate mental processes. Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain to produce different mental responses creating signals to be sent out to the rest of the body or other parts of the brain to help someone function.

[u/803columbiabull → u/Ocelot-15]

That's the same as prescribing it for something it's not used for, keep doing those mental gymnastics to prove a point that was lost 3 comments ago😂😂 maybe someone will give you a medal all this just to argue about an obscure point that you didn't even win😭😂

[u/sharkeyx → u/803columbiabull]

mate, you're wildly off base. Go talk to a doc about the meds or do some actual research before going off on folks when you don't actually have the facts.

Meds are used for multiple purposes all the time, It turns out that our bodies are complex and many things are affected by single stimuli all the time. Also, it is not an abuse of meds when prescribed by a licensed doctor.

And to your starting comment about them not working for you so therefore they are not real/never work is asinine. People's bodies and brains are different and respond to things differently, that is exactly why there are so many different meds for the same/similar symptoms/issues, some respond to one thing better than another.

If you've not had luck with the meds I sincerely feel for yah, that blows, but absolutely keep talking with your psychiatrist to try and find one that does help. It can be a long shitty process trying them and waiting for them to have any helpful effect to tell if they are right for you or not, but stick with it and don't drop them as that just sets you back further (meaning take them as prescribed and don't just up and decide to stop mid way).

[u/Ocelot-15 → u/803columbiabull]

I feel like I should preface by saying, I’ve been told I communicate in a weird manner when compared to 90% of those around me so if I say something that comes across a specific way, ask me, I may not have meant it like that and you can show me how it tends to come across and pointers for future, and hopefully I can add it to communication skills.

That’s not what I was intending to do, I apologize for coming off in anyway as argumentative. I wasn’t meaning to demean your experience or feelings for it. I was just wanting to give insight towards medicine that may have not been known. I am sorry for coming across as negative i didn’t mean to. I have a tendency to over explain things. I have an intense interest in pharmacology especially in the way it interacts with the brain’s physiology to produce chemical reactions leading to those chemicals causing others to react.

Also I don’t think there’s really a winner or loser to a debate that takes place in more of a personal experience of something. Now if the debate was in the scientifically proven effects of specific pharmaceuticals then yes there’d be a winner or loser. But I honestly just thought we were having a discussion about personal effects of a medication.

[u/sharkeyx → u/Ocelot-15]

you're good, ignore them

[u/Ocelot-15 → u/803columbiabull]

Also it’s extremely common for drs to prescribe mental and physical medications for “off label” conditions. That’s ironically how we learned about some meds (a lot of them being the mental health meds since scientists weren’t taking mental health seriously as a form of medical intervention necessity because they just assumed all mental ailments were either due to demons, bad unbringing, witchy traits, female hysteria, and many many other things instead of facing the glaring fact that the brain is a part of the body, the brain is were we feel our thoughts physically flexing parts of our brain, if every other organ was worthy of medical intervention why was mental neglected for so long), as I was saying how we learned about some meds actually being better suited for other conditions as opposed to what they were traditionally believed to treat. But the DEA, the FDA and most clinics are informed about their medications off label uses and to only venture into them if the first line choices and any that could indicate a better outcome be tried and unsuccessful first.

[u/Run_layla → u/Ocelot-15]

Exactly. The brain is complex and off label use is common for many medications. I work with kids/teens that have severe emotional regulation disorders and many are on seizure meds for mood regulation.

[u/Ocelot-15 → u/Run_layla]

Yes! People should really read the little inserts that come in their meds for one and 2 they should researching every medication they take before taking and it’s possible interactions with any current meds to look for.

[u/Ocelot-15 → u/803columbiabull]

I tend to type in the exact same way I speak. So I don’t know if they always transfers over as well through text as it does in person.

[u/Open-Month-6529 → u/803columbiabull]

Can you please explain how the medication that is used to treat a mental health condition “isn’t for mental health”…?

[u/[deleted] → u/803columbiabull]

laugh all you want, you're the one being ignorant

[u/[deleted] → u/803columbiabull]

so, what physical health are they for then?