Have you ever suffered from drug addiction? How did you get out/how are you coping with it?

[VGPolyglot]

IsawYoshi said:

VGPolyglot said:

I'm not a drug addict myself, but I have had many in my family be drug addicts. My dad is an example. He got injured while working, got prescribed painkillers, got addicted, moved on to harder drugs, got depressed, killed himself. I know others in my family that have had similar experiences too, so it makes me really scared of taking medication that I feel could be become addictive.

I'm sorry to hear that. Strong painkillers can certainly be addictive, but there is a strong difference between that and antidepressiva. 

If your depression is strong enough to make you hospitalized they might use anti depressants that can be addicting. These pills that Jwein talks about are not addictive in any way though, and as he says only gives effect after three weeks, and for this reason they will not give you the rush effect that other meds can. If you are depressed they will raise your mood, and if you have gotten over the depression they will no longer have any effect, and stopping the medication won't be noticable. 

 

It's not hospitalization level depression, more like therapy level depression. Fortunately it hasn't been bad enough where I had to go to the hospital. I have gone to therapy to try to do it without meds, but the problem is that I go to therapy, try to come up with coping mechanics, stop going to therapy and then relapse, and the cycle's gone like that.