Posted by Cecilia on July 9, 2001, at 3:47:51
In reply to (life on meds) so... how does everyone feel!??, posted by kid_A on July 3, 2001, at 10:26:00
> Right now on week three of medication, took a long time to up dosage because i was out of the country and didnt want to deal w/ side effects far away from home...
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> I guess my question is, how is everyone feeling on their meds? Do your meds make life 'bareable' or is anyone out there truly 'happy'!??
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> Are we doomed to a life of beige and grey feelings? Or can we expect some great progress in our lives?
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> Making an appointment to see a therapist next week, so that is step two of my journey, im hoping to get my life in order... im hoping to make some real inroads to sanity and peace of mind...
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> What can we expect? Is there life on meds?
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> peace.I`ve tried around thirty different meds and combinations, plus had seven years of therapy, and I can`t really say that any of it has made my life significantly better. I suppose it depends on how old you are and how long you`ve been depressed. I had a brief trial of AD`s in 1969 by a jerk of a doctor who never bothered to explain that the pills take time to work and told me that I just wanted a happy pill that didn`t exist when I told him I had stopped them because I felt worse. It was 20 years before I tried anything again,
I just figured it was my own fault I was depressed. Ironically, despite all the med failures I`ve had, now I think there has to be a biochemical basis to it, though I`m not holding my breath that the solution will come in my lifetime, or that it could really change my life at this point if it did.
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