Posted by Noa on September 26, 1999, at 20:31:30
In reply to Re: now what, posted by Bob on September 26, 1999, at 18:14:56
> Ian,
My experience , and there is a lot of it, is that letting depression "run its course" has led to increasingly recurrent episodes, more severe in nature. And this is with a lot of great therapy in which I developed a lot of insight and did make some changes for the better. But face it, there is no quick fix for the hole and I am approaching mid point of my life. For the better part of forty years, I have struggled with this, am I supposed to keep on working on understanding it in hopes that even more insight will alleviate the pain? I don't think so. Without medicine, I have too many times when I can't even make good use of the therapy. Ian, I am sorry you were traumatized by the experience of being put on meds at 13 against your will. But your experience does not speak to many of us who have been helped by meds. Frankly, I think you are speaking from some sort of idealistic position, in hopes of working through what happened to you. It just doesn't generalize as well as you think it does.
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