Posted by Anna Laura on July 2, 2001, at 0:39:19
In reply to SAYING GOODBYE .... THANKS FOR SHARING, posted by dana on July 1, 2001, at 23:08:22
> If I sound patronising, please forgive me. I have only been accessing this site for about three weeks now and may appear to overstep the mark here and generalise. The one thing that frightened me while using this site is the apparent lack of THERAPY orientated treatment. It just seems that DRUG THERAPY is given first....with little mention of things like COGNITIVE THERAPY.
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> Please don't think that I have just come out of 'la la land'........I had been diagnosed with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS....which then led to DEPRESSION/ANXIETY and very very severe PANIC ATTACKS that crippled me for three weeks....and plagued me for the last two years.
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> My Doctor after a long discussion with me two years ago, said that part of the 'deal' she was making with me, was to put me on ZOLOFT, AND arrange for treatment with a well respected CLINICAL PYSCHOLOGIST......... I saw him the very next week, and continued to do so for nearly two years. We now email each other every month or so, just to maintain contact...
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> I never believed that medication was going to be a on-going thing.......I just assumed that the time will come and they will just be a thing of the past. I stopped the ZOLOFT nearly TWO months ago.....and am now totally relying on all the skills and techniques I learnt through my sessions....COGNITIVE and BEHAVIORAL treatment.
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> I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I didn't learn how to interrupt my OBSESSIVE thought patterns, and if I didn't learn the right breathing techniques, and didn't learn SELF-TALK.........there would be NO way under the sun that I COULD have come off the medication.......but I have........and although I sometimes struggle, I do have the KNOWLEDGE behind me......which mostly works, sometimes it doesn't as the MENTAL GYMNASTICS just gets too exhausting.....
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> Good luck to everybody,
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> I have decided to stop accessing this site....I feel that I am doing what is right for me, and I hope you all find the comfort and the help you need, whether it is through drugs AND/OR Therapy.
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> DanaHi Dana,
This board has been designed for sharing experiences about drug treatment: it is its purpose. Ther's another board, called Psycho-Social where you can socilaize and share experiences about therapies instead.
I did cognitice therapy myself: i thing it was useful , but five years after that i had second bout of depression and the skills i had learned didn't help me this time: i barely moved from the couch and couldn't eat at all.
If i was forcing myself i would puke right after having swallowed the food. Please, don't think i'm trying to scare but consider that drugs have been life-savers for some people.
Imipramine saved my life the last winter: i tried and tried, but no therapy could bring out from the throes of this terrible illness. After two months i decided to take the drug and it was a life-saver from me: i was becoming psychotic, felt like i was dead, my legs felt as they were dead, made of plastic. It was like being inside a storm: i was sticking to the couch falling in to a maelstrom of madness. Imipramine dragged me out of this storm: sure there are many things to be done, i still have to work hard on my self probabilly, but the drug is helping me to get this job done also.Wishing you good luck for your discomfort, whatever it is.....
Anna Laura
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