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Re: Selegiline for depression?

Posted by Kim on September 5, 1999, at 2:40:18

In reply to Re: Selegiline for depression?, posted by Adam on September 4, 1999, at 20:20:49

> It has been a little over four weeks for me on the transdermal selegiline
> study. As for the effects, or lack thereof, the drug has had on me, I have
> some thoughts.
>
> I have had days and more prolonged periods where I have almost felt as good as did
> after receiving ECT, which was unequivocably the best form of treatment I have
> ever received for depression. (Of course, after a while, the effects of ECT faded.)
>
> I have since had days when I felt wretched, mostly in response to a bad recent event
> in my life. I experienced depression as badly as I ever did. I was convinced
> again that I must be on the placebo or that selegiline wasn't working for me.
>
> I have rebounded from these dark moments. The times that I rebounded I kept
> telling myself "no doctor will come and wave a magic wand and make your cares
> go away. Selegiline or no selegiline, you've got to fight, to bear the slings
> and arrows of outrageous fortune, to reach very deep inside of yourself and find
> a way to survive and grow and learn."
>
> This seemed to work. Maybe it's working because I'm responding to selegiline.
> Maybe it's something more complex. I don't know.
>
> What I do know is that fighting depression is incredibly hard, but that I may be
> winning. The key is to keep fighting, by any and all means. There are rewards, and
> I wonder if my life will not end in some far off suicide after all.
>
> Well, like I said, just some thoughts.
>
>
>
> > Has anyone heard of selegiline for depression. I have heard that it can be helpful.

Adam,
Don't give up! All I want from an antidepressant right now is for it to give me the strength to fight. As long as you can find it in yourself to keep up the battle, you have to think the selegiline is helping. And you're helping the rest of us who just can't manage yet to think that maybe there is something out there that will help. After 35+ different medications, I need to believe that.
Kim


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