Posted by greenhornet on February 21, 2005, at 16:56:18
In reply to Re: To Green Hornet » greenhornet, posted by Justherself54 on February 21, 2005, at 15:51:26
> When you are in the depths of depression, where your life if deviod of joy, hope and faith, it is hard to nearly impossible to try to educate yourself. You can't concentrate or focus on anything but the pain you are in. I had been treated as unipolar for 20 years until I had to enter a crisis centre as I was crying for 10 hours a day or staying up all night playing computer games. It wasn't until I was in the crisis centre that a pnurse listened to some of my history and called in the on-call pdoc. He offered to take me as a patient. We have worked hard for over a year to try to get me stabilized. I am not there yet but I now have hope. He returns my phone calls within 2 hours, is very supportive and has referred me for a second opinion on meds. If I didn't go on medication I would be dead. It was that bad. Maybe some day I can also be medication free, but that is not my priority right now.
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> When I read the first post, my heart went out as that was exactly what I felt like. It wasn't until we worked hard and tweaked and tweaked and tweaked my meds that I now feel hope.
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> I live in a very small town in Manitoba. The crisis centre is an hour away but the nurses come to your residence and talk to you. The centre is a guiet haven, where you start getting the proper sleep and nutrition. It is staffed 24/7. If poor Manitoba has these facilites, I can't understand why Ontario and Quebec don't. Try to find out if there is a crisis centre close AND GO THERE. It saved my life.
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> My heart is with youI absolutly understand what you are saying. I did not say that educating ones self should be done while in the midst of a dark time. Do it now or whenever you are feeling better.
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