I just watched this 1000th documentary on anorexia nervosa and they said some of the featured girls/women secretly took Neurontin. In my book Neurontin (Gabapentin) is prescribed for diseases like epilepsy and neurological pains (but it also treats partial seizures, I believe). I take it as a painkiller for my migraine attacks occasionally but it's pretty strong and I don't want to risk taking too much. One dose is often not enough and it can make me groggy so I try to avoid it as much as possible.
So how would anorexic girls think they 'benefit' (in their own distorted view, of course) from this drug? I don't know of any side effects that could, say, supress their hunger or give them some of the much-needed energy they lack when eating under 800 calories a day. Probably it's just the high that comes with it when you aren't used to it - much like addicts. Either way, it's horrible and it makes me fear what thousands of other things people can do to destroy their own systems and bodies. But I'm also curious as to why these people buy and take Neurontin illegally since I have no idea what kinds of effects it has on people without things like postherpetic neuralgia and why it would be perceived as something positive by anorexic people. Anyone know the answer to this?
Wow, I watched Dr. Phil today and what was all that about? There was this woman that had fallen in love with her brother's murderer while visiting him in jail. She is now trying to get him out and her mother (!) agrees with her. The latter even said: "He isn't a murderer." EH? Some people are capable of boggling the mind in more than a hundred ways, it seems. >.>
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