• Ellia Plissken@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who’s having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn’t comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien

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      what. the. fuck.

      The only rationale I can think of is that trazodone has a small risk of causing mania if you’re sensitive to it since technically it’s serotonergic but what the actual fuck. Ambien is waaay more dangerous!

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        he considered it a psych drug. this is the same Doctor who would ask me if I wanted a prostate exam or not during my physical. like who asks that? nobody wants one, but at a certain age everybody needs one every year. found out later it’s because he was a germaphobe

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      You don’t hear horror stories about it anymore. Who was it that almost drove off a cliff? Jack Nicholson?