Posted by lawrence S. on May 12, 2003, at 17:29:12
In reply to Afraid to continue...scared to death to quit, posted by Dramatica on May 7, 2003, at 14:42:33
It would come out of the blue. I could be doing anything and all of a sudden I would be having flashbacks of different dreams I had in the past. I thought for sure it was psychosis! Terrifying! I don't get this anymore thank God. I think this is a symptom of depression and/or a lack of sleep. If you told this to a Pdoc he would probably want to put you an AP's. What seemed to help me was finding the right AD. Also the addition of fish oil taken for several months has totally stopped this symptom.
I used to be worried about meds causing brain dammage. Then my Pdoc changed my point of view. According to him deppresion and prolonged stress can cause your hippocampus (pleasure center) to shrink and your hypothalamus (emotions) to get larger. Essentially you feel less pleasure have more emotional instability. And stress /depression is believed to be responsible for all kinds of diseases including parkinsons. There is some thought that taking Prozac might even reduce some kinds of cancer and I can't remember what else.
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