Posted by Marie1 on August 26, 2001, at 8:35:16
In reply to Re: Abuse of Prescription Medication » Rosa, posted by Pennie Lane on August 25, 2001, at 11:41:48
Pennie Lane,
What you have to say here about people thinking their depression has been caused solely by some neurotransmitter imbalance is interesting to me. I always thought my depression was purely biological, inherited from my looney tunes grandmother (I'm allowed; I too am "looney tunes :-)). My brother suicided, due to undiagnosed depression and that added to my theory about myself. Basically, I didn't feel that I had the stressors that typically contribute to a "situational depression". So went to g.p. and started Prozac, which luckily worked for me. This too reinforced the physiological depression theory. However, after 18 months in psychotherapy (after a bout of major depression), I'm beginning to wonder just how much of this illness really is bio-chemical. I also have abuse problems with alcohol and prescription meds. I've come to think my depression may be a combination of things, with a genetic predisposition to mental illness. Part of the problem is, I don't want to think my past was anything but normal. We weren't the Brady Bunch, but was it really that bad? Hard for me to say; that was my reality and I had nothing else to compare it to.
Anyway, I was curious if this is what you meant when you said "how the norms they excepted effected their development, and what alternatives might have produced different results."
I was also curious as to your background. Are you a psychologist or psychiatrist? Thanks for your thoughts.Marie
Underneath the blue suburban skies, I sit and meanwhile back at Pennie Lane....
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