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Re: ECT blues

Posted by Merci on June 6, 2003, at 19:55:32

In reply to Re: ECT blues » Merci, posted by Geezer on June 6, 2003, at 17:15:27

Ok, so I just wrote a nice long post that I think disappeared. Sigh.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read the posts on this thread and respond - even though we're all strangers, it helps so much to know that there are others out there who are going through similar things. I've spent the entire day on the couch, with my cats and this website for comfort.

Last November, I dropped out of my second year of law school - I just couldn't pretend to be ok anymore, and my work wasn't getting done. I have no doubt that I would have failed all my classes if I'd stayed. I wasn't sleeping very much, I was feeling quite depressed and starting to feel suicidal. At that time, I started taking Nardil. I also started taking tamazepam at night, for sleep, which is only slightly helpful.

Prior to the Nardil, and after trying numerous ADs on their own, my Dr. suggested that I might have Bipolar II - my understanding is that someone who is BPII experiences "relative" mania rather than true mania. I can't remember, right now, which ADs were augmented, but they were augmented with Lithium, first, then Lamictal.

My non-depressed self is creative, funny, smart, capable...when I'm not depressed, I see a future that I want to be a part of. When I'm depressed like this, an hour into the future seems nearly unbearable. Since I left school, I've been doing odd-jobs, like housesitting, dogwalking, babysitting...I wanted to think that the ECT was going to work and that right now I'd be looking at my class schedule for Fall. August IS a long time away, but I can't see how I could possibly get it together before then. Or, get it together at all.

I'm so tired of being so sad.

Open to suggestions,
Merci


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