Life Without Depression

Prozac (Fluoxetin)

happyman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:23:51 +0000

Prozac (Fluoxetin)

Brand names: Prozac, Prozac Weekly, Rapiflux, Sarafem.

Prozac is the knownest antidepressant in the world. It is used to treat major depressive disorder, bulimia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder and panic disorder.

Prozac affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced and cause depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

This medication takes by mouth. Carefully read the directions on the prescription label and follow them. Use a special spoon or container to take your medicine.

Before taking Prozac

Before taking Prozac make sure that you aren’t using any of these drugs: phenelzine (Nardil), thioridazine (Mellaril), or a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) such as isocarboxazid (Marplan), pimozide (Orap), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam), or tranylcypromine (Parnate).

When you first start taking an antidepressant, you may have thoughts about suicide. Your doctor will need to check you at regular visits for at least the first 12 weeks of treatment with Prozac.

Before taking Prozac tell your doctor if you have: cirrhosis of the liver; kidney disease; diabetes; seizures or epilepsy; bipolar disorder (manic depression); or a history of drug abuse or suicidal thoughts.

Do not give Prozac to anyone younger than 18 years old without a doctor’s advice.

Overdose

Overdose may cause nausea, vomiting, fever, sleepiness, rapid or uneven heartbeat, confusion, fainting, seizures, or coma.

Alcohol

While taking Prozac you will need to avoid drinking alcohol, which can increase some of the side effects of Prozac.

Prozac side effects

Call your doctor at once if you experience any of these serious side effects from using Prozac:

severe blistering, peeling, and red skin rash;
very stiff (rigid) muscles, high fever, sweating, fast or uneven heartbeats, tremors, overactive reflexes;
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, feeling unsteady, loss of coordination; or
headache, trouble concentrating, memory problems, weakness, confusion, hallucinations, fainting, seizure, shallow breathing or breathing that stops.

Less serious Prozac side effects may include:

cold symptoms such as stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat;
drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous;
mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation;
increased appetite, weight changes;
sleep problems (insomnia);
decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; or
dry mouth.

I Keep Promises

happyman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:21:45 +0000

So, I promised you that I will write here about different classes of antidepressants. Perhaps it’s time to start!

I will begin from Prozac.

New blog of antidepressants.

happyman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:07:23 +0000

I found on the WP novice blog about antidepressants and depression. It will be interesting to observe how this blog will be developing. In the time being creator of this blog just copypastes articles from the special sites, but presents it quite correctly and convinient personally for me.

So, so, so good!

happyman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:12:09 +0000

Oh, good day, good hour, good life! As you might have already noticed I have a wonderful mood.

Therefore I’m going to write to you something that make you smile. For example, I’ll tell you about my lady-cat.

She is a veeery funny. For example, she likes to play with carpet. She sits on the corner and catches its claws. When she catches the corner, she lies on her back and rolls in the carpet. And all this happens with a deafening miaow. Finally, we have a nice carpets pie with cat :)

Recipe of good mood is easy!

Conversation with myself

happyman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:35:43 +0000

I read on the Internet many different articles and opinions about how to increase traffic to your blog. A lot of variants: spam, stolen content, in general, everything that one way or another based on lies.
I also want to try to draw attention to my blog. But I will do it with more loyal ways. I want to attract people by interesting texts and unusual thoughts.

But for the time being there aren’t unusual thoughts in my blog :D This blog is more like a conversation with myself. Well, nice to talk with interesting conversationalist.

So, I will try to find the right and humane way to increase traffic to my blog.

My daring dreams (mm)

happyman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:59:40 +0000

Not long ago I was thinking and decided that some day I’ll become a cool famous blogger. Therefore I will start to ask question as if I’ve already got a huge audience right now :))

What kind of music do you like?

Dear readers!

happyman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:57:37 +0000

I have been learning English not so long. So if you notice any mistakes in my posts, please, write about them in the comments below.
Thank you very much in advance!

Good night!

happyman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:22:10 +0000

Good night, my dear readers!
I hope your dreams will be amazing and interesting :)

5 Ways to Calm Your Nerves

happyman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:07:52 +0000

1) Fold origami. The Japanese are very quiet people. You will never hear from their paper homes wrathful rebukes. It’s all because instead of argue each other they fold the paper crane from colored paper. Don’t want cranes? I can offer you a lot of other paper figures :)

2) Knitting a sweater. There are a lot of variants: jacket, dress, suit for your nephew and other difficult knitted stuff. Crochet hook or needles? Chose what you want. This method (like previous) is a good for calm your nerves, because folding and knitting patterns allows you to focus on them and forget about external stimuli.

3) Go shopping. Only for women. But it really works! What else can so fast cheer up, except the endless fitting stylish new clothes. Men’s alternative: going to buy a new software for the PC or a new DVD movies.

4) Go to the gym. For men – physical trainings, for women – aerobics, fitness, yoga. From one to two times the figure, however, does not improve, but your body get so positive energy that you immediately feel yourself better.

5) Sit in the bus (or tram, trolley). I don’t now how you, but I was always attracted by romantic of this perspective – long, long time just look out the window.

What way you like to get rid of stress?

The first trial to write a post…

happyman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:11:00 +0000

What is depression? Why the thousands of people suffer of this strange word from time to time? And occasionally it is a very long time.
I think that people become depressed just by themselves. They invent to themselves new and else new problems and constantly thinking about these problems. That leads them from happy and carefree life to nasty and prolonged depression.
For example, the young beatiful lady was cast by her boyfriend. They think “probably I am ugly”. Then she think that she is stupid, too short for him and the many absurd things like above. She think about herself more and more time, begin to find in herself more and more disadvantages. And finally she is in the deep depression and run to the chemist’s to buy antidepressants or think about suicide.

Talk with something and tell about your problems and doubts is always better than close in yourself. Think about it