ABUSE of OTC's

Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are drugs that do not require a prescription and can simply be bought “over-the-counter”, as their name states.

I decided to let everyone know that their is ABUSE with things that you can buy over the counter. I would have never thought about some of the things I have learned about since my kids have been in Middle School and High School. We do live in Las Vegas, however while doing more research for this I have found that Michigan was one of the top states for abuse of OTC's than any other place in the USA.

• Here are some of types of OTC drugs that are most common of abuse:
•  Sleep Assistants 
• Cold medicines (cough syrups and tablets)  
• Diet pills 
• Motion sickness drugs   

Over 71,000 children (under 18) are being seen in emergency rooms each day in our nation due to accidental and over-the-counter drug overdoses.


Just thought I would put a little up for you to think about. I am very tired and need to sleep. I will be back to finish this for you tomorrow!

Wanting to End it All ~ After Antidepressants

So.... I haven't been on for a while now. I had a very close friend who is more like a Sister to me decide she was going to end it all. We both  felt the same way after we had to stop taking our antidepressant Celexa, because we no longer had an Dr to prescribe it to us. She had been off of her medication for about 2 weeks;  she called me in tears on Monday the 23rd because how she was feeling. We had talked about how coming off of this medication made us feel, and that it wasn't a good feeling. I told her she needed to go to the  Hospital. She said she would be fine and that she had a job interview the next day and was going to the Dr on Wednesday to see about getting back on her medication.

So to get to the point, she got the job and never made it to the Dr's appointment because she decided to check out and end it all early Wednesday morning. This is what she posted:
i tried to write a letter but fb fuckd up, so, i'm going away for awhile now, hopefully to see my maker & i hope he doesnt get mad for me cheating but HE did bring me into this world and made it HELL so if i end up somewhere else, it wouldnt make a difference for me, loosing my bubba is the greatest punishment HE has ever given me & i'm done trying to deal with it. I'm sorry i've made some u upset, but i do have to go, i have no reason to be here anymore....I LOVE YOU XXXX,XXXXX, ALWAYS HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL!!! LETS HOPE I ACTUALLY GETT'ER DONE.......LATE, fckn helipocters are here

The helicopters she is talking about is how it felt inside her head. She had told me she felt like she was under water. So we do have a happy ending to what happened, but the end has yet to come to a complete. She is alive due to FB and friends and family paying attention and making sure she was found before she could end it all. There is still a long road ahead because now the State gets involved. But she is getting the help she needs.

When I went off of my medication due to having to find a new Dr. (which I have an Appointment on Friday) I felt the same way. However as you know from previous Blogs that I would never leave my children here because I was selfish ( not saying that she was, because she felt this is how she could deal with it) and wanted to take my Life. I came up with a little poem to for that to and this is how it goes:
I gave my Children Life...
Now they give me Life...
If it wasn't for them,
I don't know where I would be.
I Love you Children of Mine!

I strongly recommend that if you are ever taking an antidepressant that you make sure that you will not go off of them without the help of a Dr. it causes so much to your Mind and Body that you would never want to go through. I know this because I have had to do so more than once in my Life. I will be talking to the Dr. on Friday and let them know this and make sure we have a plan so that this doesn't ever happen again. I know I feel better when I take them due to the illness that I suffer and I am a Better Person to everyone around me.

http://depression.emedtv.com/celexa/withdrawals-from-celexa.html
Check out the videos, I found them very helpful for someone who might wonder if they suffer from depression and where does depression come from.
However the Celexa withdrawals stated that you are more likely to want to kill yourself or have thoughts about doing it while taking the medication. I would have to agree to that because I did have thoughts about not wanting to be here. However after going off of the medication all at once seem to make the feeling worse.

I hope I have given some of you hope and knowledge to the effects of what might happen when you stop taking your Antidepressant without the help of a Dr. Below find some more links that might be of help.

Depression and Suicide

People with clinical depression are at a greater risk of suicide than people without the condition. This eMedTV page offers detailed information on the link between depression and suicide, as well as statistics and a list of risk factors for suicide. 

Here is a link for someone who is thinking about or for someone who knows someone (Suicide)  www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

 If someone you Love shows signs of suicide please get them help. Watch for the signs. You might just save a Life.

Quotes About Life

Some quotes about life:

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away!

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
  ― Dr. Seuss

  The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ― Dr. Seuss

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

 

"But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini

 

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
— Robert Frost

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
  Love like you'll never be hurt,
  Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.”
  ― William W. Purkey  

“Who are you to judge the life I live?

  I know I'm not perfect
  -and I don't live to be-

but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
                ― Bob Marley

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

 
 “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost                



 “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

"I may not have gone where I intended to go,
but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
 — Douglas Adams
"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"   Douglas Adams

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

  "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

 Well I hope this gives everyone some great insight on how Life is or is thought to be by others. All I know is it a matter of Choice on how we live our Life and God has given us Freedom of Choice on which path we choose to follow!
Until Next Time May we all have a Blessed Life