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I took a pill and I didn't even need it. Help??
Okay so I was saying that I wasn't feeling well too stay home from school (I felt really depressed and just didn't feel like going), so i took an ibuprofin so my parents would believe me. Well could anything happen to me since I didn't need it? Yes I do realize it was a stupid idea but I don't usually do this.
Also, it was only one pill. I took it hours ago, but I was just wondering if anything could happen.
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Taking one ibuprofen when not needed will not harm you. If you make a habit of taking these pills on a daily basis and take too much or too many. Then you run the risk of damaging your liver. Just how damage can be done depends on how much you abuse this medication. If abused too much a person could put themselves in a life threatening position of needing a liver transplant. Just because it is an over the counter medication does not mean the medication is without risk or side-effects.
Now as to feeling depressed. It is normal in the ebb and flow of our daily lives to feel somewhat down one day, normal the next and even a bit euphoric another day. In a person with the normal flow of emotions your emotions will ride like a small wave above and below a flat horizontal line. When the wave dips below the line we say we feel depressed. The slight dip below the horizontal line is as I said normal and is not considered to be clinically depressed.
To be clinically depressed that line would have to go straight down well below the horizontal and stay there. To be manically depressed, or bipolar, that line would go way down, stay down then go straight up well above the horizontal and stay there for a few days. Then the cycle starts all over again. This is when a person is truly depressed.
What you are feeling in generic terms is what we call being bummed out. Frankly taking an ibuprofen or any other pain reliever is nothing more than a placebo which makes you think you feel better. In your case to make mom think you were sick. It had absolutely no effect on your body or how you felt.
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Depression does not usually last just one afternoon or one day, it goes on much longer. So staying home from school is not going to help it. What will be the excuse the next day? Taking pills of any kind when one is not ill is not a good habit to get into.
To answer your question, Ibuprofen, taken when has no existing pain is not going to cause any medical problems but if you begin to reach out to take more dangerous stuff like street drugs or parents prescriptions to numb your pain or depression, that will not help either.
The question you did not ask is how to deal with your depression. I am going to try to answer that now because it is the more serious situation here.
As I see it, there are two kinds of depression, one that happens to be conditional on whats going on in your life and stress that has been going on for too long and no measures taken to address that stress. The other depression is one where your body just does not naturally produce enough of, or any at all, of the feel-good hormones that keep us from becoming depressed. I am including a list of things you can try first to see if you can raise the levels of those hormones naturally. This will only work if the part of your body that produces them works and the supply is only short right now due to lots of stress. Try my exercises for a week or two and if you do not notice any improvement, then approach your parents. Because they will need to get you seen by the Family dr. and referred on to a psychologist who will test you and if you need it, put you on a medication that will take care of the depression feelings.
Here's the things that help.
Scientific research has found that when people hug or kiss, levels of oxytocin rise because more are created. If you study 'Hugging therapy' online, you will discover that people need a certain amount of hugs daily for those levels to rise. One hug a day is not enough and almost all of us never even get one a day let alone one a week. One thing to keep in mind is that one cannot give a hug without getting one in return. And another thing to keep in mind, a short weak half hearted hug will not be strong enough to start creation of oxytocin, you need the full body, hard long lasting bear hug to begin to feel the effects almost immediately.
Another thing to combat depression is movement. Many people when depressed dont want to do anything but lie in bed all day. Inactivity will not help. Movement will and can come in different forms. The quickest most effective ones that don't require a long time invested are running, jogging, jump roping, skipping, dancing. Just skipping rope 5 minutes or dancing to one song will already have a positive effect. More is better.
Sound energies and the vibrations it carries have long been known to have positive effects on a person's wellness. One is the effect of vibrations in something like the Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls or gong therapy.
Music is a more widely used and available therapy. Both listening to and singing along are great therapy that can raise your feel good hormone levels quickly. The key is the melody more so than the words, remember, its sound therapy. I look for the melodies where when I am listening, it makes my heart feel lighter like a balloon about to float out of my chest. Thats the best way I can describe whether a particular melody is having the correct effect on you. A personal example would be Clocks by Coldplay. I can play that a couple times and my mood is immediately lightened.
Laughter and humor. The sayings “Laughter is the best medicine” or “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” are not just cute but meaningless sayings. There is truth behind it. Laughter will create and release the feel-good hormones in you, and especially so if it is prolonged laughter, such as watching a comedy act or a good comedy movie and not the light chuckle or two but the more effective belly ache laugh where your eyes start crying and you feel you have to pee.
We live today in a world that is harsh and cruel instead of peaceful and harmonious. Our brains require the use of lots of neurotransmitters to help us be able to handle the onslaught of daily stresses. The hormones get used up on a daily basis without us replenishing them, like the taking of a daily vitamin. Think of it as needing your daily H vitamin, happiness vitamin or hormone-inducing vitamin. So many of us are going for days without having any neurotransmitter hormones to help us cope mentally with daily life. After so many days, we finally have a break down and can not function any longer and that break down is depression. So give this a try. If it helps, continue to try and get some form of vitamin H therapy in each day. If not, go see a doctor.
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