is taking anti depressants once a week instead of steadily everyday bad? if so why?

You are basically throwing money and mental stability in the trash...

This is like asking "If I only take my birth control pill once a week, will I get pregnant?"

"If I only take my antibiotic medication once a week, will it get rid of my illness?"

I'm going to be harsh for your own good...

TAKE YOUR GODDAMNED MEDICATION LIKE THE INSTRUCTIONS SAY TO FOR FU*KS SAKE RETARD!

They don't give you the instructions just to screw with you...

They don't tell you to take a pill a day so they can "Sell you more"...

they tell you to take them as directed because that is how they work...

I am shocked at the retardation so many supposedly intelligent people display when it comes to medication.

No, the doctors are NOT trying to make an extra buck off of you by making you take one a day...

The medication works by building up in your blood and effecting your chemistry.

By not taking it as directed, you may be just totally not getting the proper effect or you could be screwing with the delicate balance of your brain and making your problems worse.

Why even try to help your mental illness, or any illness at all for that matter, if you refuse to follow simple instructions?

Why not do as so many people do and decide that "Drugs don't work" and just stop seeking treatment all together?

Hell... Pay for someone that WANTS HELP if you are just going to throw all that money and medication down the toilet.

SSRI and Multiple Reuptake Inhibitors take upwards of a MONTH to get in your system and start doing their job... That first month is full of sh*tty side effects and odd feelings but after a month or two, you even out, get used to the medication, and the "Bad" side effects go away and the drug starts to work as planned.

If you don't give it a chance to get in to your body/brain, how can it do its job???

Check out this website... It goes in to why medication sucks and why it can be a lifesaver if done correctly...

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Taken once a week has no good in it. In other words, if you felt better from that you aren't even sick with an illness you just have a placebo effect. These meds take time, weeks, to build up and actually work right. Taking it once a week is just a waste of money, and is harsh on your organs.

I used to be identified with bipolar style a million in 1996. I used to be on a shoebox stuffed with capsules. There used to be whatever to manage the bipolar, whatever for sleep disturbances, etc. In the tip, I figured that the capsules have been to keep watch over my habits, and I suggestion I might do this on my possess, so I stopped taking the medicinal drugs bloodless turkey. I used to be proper, as far as controlling my habits. I've been off the meds for 7 years now. Of path, what I did isn't dependable, and must no longer be performed by way of anybody. Nevertheless, the indications didn't leave. I simply began discovered to manage them. I nonetheless have durations of extreme despair. I nonetheless have very extreme sleep disturbances. But the way in which that I manage this is a bit distinct now. First and principal, I do not believe my brain and emotions. This looks slightly morbid at the floor, however it is very rational and sound. If my feelings are the challenge, and there are attendant ideas that feed the challenge feelings, then I obviously must no longer depend on them. So I query them, and I mission them. Especially the ideas. This method, I move via the despair, or the mania, however I'm no longer triumph over by way of it due to the fact that I've built this form of presence of brain or concentration of what is going on. If it is extra tricky to manage, I inform myself approximately the well matters that experience occurred to stability out the despair, or I remind myself of a few matters that experience no longer long past in keeping with plan to support deliver down a mania. Yes, those matters can also be performed, however they're very exertions extensive and time drinking. My recommendation isn't to reduce the antidepressants with out clinical supervision. CBT (that is the formal title for what I do on my possess) could be very lucrative within the therapy of despair. I suggest it, however most effective underneath reliable supervision. ADD--Now that you have special that the despair is situational, CBT (cognitive behavioral treatment) might paintings excellent ultimately. The rationale that I might suggest in opposition to slicing meds bloodless turkey is that a few of them will have opposed results if they're stopped all of the sudden. For instance, depakote has been identified to motive seizures whether it is stopped all of the sudden. A lot of them require weaning.

Yes that is bad. The meds need time to build up to the right level in your body and then need to be taken daily to maintain that level. If you take them once a week then you can not build up to the right level or maintain a constant and correct level.

It is not good. Antidepressants work a certain way and if they are prescribed daily, then they need to be taken daily.

it is the same for any medication--if you take cholesterol medication or blood pressure medication only once a week, it will not work. Same with antidepressants.

Why don't you want to take them as prescribed?

They have to be taken daily to build up enough in your body to have an effect.

yes, you need to take them everyday if you truely want tthm to work.. trust me!