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I'm going to have to stick up for 2mares on this one. Personally, I wouldn't start a new relationship with someone on antidepressants, either. If I had a husband, boyfriend, S.O. already, and they came to a point where they needed to take them, that's a completely different issue. But at the outset of a relationship, I'd have to take a polite pass on getting involved.
What point is that? The point of awareness?? So you prefer your men to be untreated? Depression isn't something that just *happens* at this point you describe as when medication becomes necessary. Chances are, the guy was already depresseed and reluctant to admit it. Chances are you failed to acknowledge it. So I guess you prefer the untreated depressed man.....
It sounds like she thought you were funny and asked the phrase, what kind of drugs are you on to get another funny response out of you. She wasn't being serious.
I would not start a relationship with someone I knew was on anti-depressants either. Why? Its been my experience that people on anti-depressants have issues and these relationships are difficult at best, torturous ending in break-up, divorce and mental anguish at worst. Why would anyone want to enter into a relationship with someone with such major mental and emotional problems that they cant cope with themselves and daily life let alone a intimate relationship?
It's nice to be able to pigeonhole people isn't it?
It's a shame that you can't have what you've said here tattooed on your forehead or somewhere else visable so that others can prejudge you and avoid you.
It's nice to be able to pigeonhole people isn't it?
It's a shame that you can't have what you've said here tattooed on your forehead or somewhere else visable so that others can prejudge you and avoid you.
I am interested in this girl I go to school with and I said something realy funny the other day and one of her friends asked me what kind of drugs I was taking and I say anti-depressents and now she won't have any thing to dop with me
J, I'm sorry. It's a really unfortunate part of life that some people find really silly things to judge others for.
I guess the only good thing to come from this is that at least now you know that she's not a very nice person if she's willing to stop seeing you or being friends with you simply because you are on medication.
Unfortunately one of the things that seems to reoccur in life is that you can't know what not to tell some people until you've told them. Just know that there will be other people that will come into your life that will value you for who you are and maybe save the sharing of personal information for them once you've been able to establish that they are your friend and care about you?
I bet most of these intolerant types could use some meds themselves.
Quite possibly, it's not really for me to say.
I tend to take people as I find them, warts and all so to speak. Non of us being perfect and all of us being unique. Being on anti depressant medication wouldn't make me bat an eyelid. Plenty of people have to take them to counteract the side effects of other life saving medications, to help with chemical imbalance that isn't going to go away, because of truly hideous situations including grief and loss. As far as I can see, if you're not well then you go to the doctor and you do everything you can to get well. It's no different to medication to help with cancer, chronic illness, heart problems anything really. A thousand times I'd rather be with someone that acknowledges that they are ill or need help and are attempting to get that help than someone that lives in denial pointing the finger at everyone else.
because of truly hideous situations including grief and loss.
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I'd rather be with someone that acknowledges that they are ill or need help and are attempting to get that help
So you are saying these are appropriate times to development a new intimate relationship as opposed to waiting until you are better? You truly are a benevolent martyr. And I intolerant and selfish because I feel it would be better to wait until both parties can give themselves 100% to a new relationship unemcumbered by emotional grief and illness.
So you are saying these are appropriate times to development a new intimate relationship as opposed to waiting until you are better? You truly are a benevolent martyr. And I intolerant and selfish because I feel it would be better to wait until both parties can give themselves 100% to a new relationship unemcumbered by emotional grief and illness.
You are just a Smoky Mountain Meany!!
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