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Originally Posted by runbux

I only took Cymbalta once. The 60mg dose was taken as directed and supplied directly by my physician. Within 5 minutes, I experienced the most intense and debilitating "high" of my life, which lasted around 12 hours. I very nearly had to go to an ER. No one who has felt this effect can seriously claim to be "sober!" This stuff is VERY DANGEROUS to the General Public, and totally incompatible with sobriety!!!! I'll take chronic depression any day! Because of this experience, I have lost five years of sobriety and blame it on Cymbalta. This stuff is obviously intended as a recreational drug for serious addicts and casual abuse!!

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I am sorry to say but I have to totally disagree with your post. You are 100% WRONG with your statement, obviously you have not experienced true depression. You also are judging a medication by your reaction to it and not by the many many people who's life it has saved. I am 100% sober and have been for 7 years. I do not take anti-depressants for fun or as a recreational drug. If I choose to go out then I will go out by something that actually makes me high not a medication that does not produce ANY high. I am on 120mg of Cymbalta and it has never made me high. I have never recieved a high from an anti-depressant. Someone who is bi-polar can have a manic episode onset when put on anti-depressants, it would be my guess that is what you experienced rather than a high. It is impossible for an anti-depressant to make someone high. That is not the function of them. If it weren't for Cymbalta and other anti-depressants I would have committed suicide a long time ago. Yes, I completely consider myself sober and no one can convince me that I am not simply because I take a medication to replace a chemical in my brain that my body does not produce enough of. Unless someone has truly experienced a chemical depression episode they can not truly understand the depths and what a miracle it is to have medication that can resolve the problem. There are times I become somewhat manic or depressed due to my bi-polar disease but that is not due to my anti-depressant medication it is related to the bi-polar issue.