Happy Pill

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I wish there was a happy pill that keep you happy.

There is.
It's called ecstasy.
Illegal and highly addictive.

Or there are pills your doc can give You like fluoxotine or citralopram.

Seriously. Go see your doctor. They can help.

^ They don't make you happy.
They make you zombie.

People react to them differently. They can curb the depression and help you find the motivation to do things that do actually make you happy.

^ but you are still depressed, according to your posts.
I mean, you don't seem happy.

I'm also a hypocrite because I should go back to the Dr and discuss my medication. But it's a pain in the butt because I work an hour away from where I live.

And the system to get an appointment is rubbish. You phone as soon as they open and so does half of the redt of the town and keep redialling till you get through and you have to just take whatever appointment is still available that day which is not convenient work wise for me.

I take the citralopram for hormonal reasons more than for depression.

Yes I should go back to the Dr.

They don't really make you happy. At best, they bring you back to equilibrium after you have been at your lowest point. They have terrible side effects, though.

The drugs that have been mentioned are all a poor substitute for real happiness and will make you more miserable in the long run. But then again, they are more socially acceptable than food or possessions.

And I have to keep taking the drugs my past psychiatrists have nagged/guilted/forced me to take unless they give me permission to stop. Only right now I'm not seeing any psychiatrists. The last one up and left, they always leave in a couple of years or so, and gave the pharmacy a year's supply of pills for me to keep taking until I start seeing someone else. I'm worried that my pills will run out before then, or that If I do see someone new they'll be the worst one yet. They'll refuse to believe I have Asperger's in spite of me being diagnosed, or treat me like a sub-human who needs to be locked away and drugged into being a zombie. Even my mother won't be able to stand up for me.

I think I've been lucky. I've never had any bad side effects to medication.

It's a bandaid, a false substitute for real happiness which would actually prevent you working out what was causing your unhappiness in the first place, and resolving that problem.
I found that with alcohol. Yes it obliterated the mind so completely that I couldn't be unhappy and wouldn't remember if I were, but the problems were still there underneath it, and so long as I drank, I was never working out those problems.

If it stops me killing myself I'll take the band aid.

Yes it doesn't remove the fact I'll actually have to do some work to improve my situation.

If someone could invent a pill with the same effect as alcohol but it didn't give you cirrhosis of the liver or a raging hangover, that'd be about perfect.

Alcohol doesn't have that much of an effect on me. I feel like I'm missing out lol.

The only thing I get a buzz from is really hot chillies. I love love love spicy food.

^ I love all things hot and spicy too.

My "happy pill" is cat videos. I love watching them because they're funny and cute. Petting a cat is good, too. It releases a feel good endorphin called PURR!