Posted by SLS on July 22, 2005, at 16:56:07
In reply to Re: About my post..and Suicide..., posted by linkadge on July 22, 2005, at 16:28:42
> I think a lot of people could do a lot better than they think without medications.
It's nice to speculate.
> Some studies show that EPA is as effective as standard antidepressants for some.At supra-nutritional dosages, it becomes an allotropic treatment.
> It is being investigated now as a potential prescription product. I certainly attain some help from it.
Yup. Allotropic.
> Just because I don't rely on pharmacudicals does not undermine the degree of my illness.
Do you feel I did that? If you do, please direct me to my post and quote the verbiage that I used.
> I think people try to use this as a way to guage other people's illness.
Probably.
> I have been hospitalized three times, seen 7 psychiatrists, 5 doctors, 3 counsellers, and was once "convinced" that I needed 5 medications to get by. I have been on 33 different psychiatric meds over the years, and I was offered ECT at one point.
Some people even determine that a person does not have the illness they have been diagnosed as having just because they don't respond to the drugs used for that indication.
> > But playing the "this is how sick I am" game is dumb, because it mentally locks you into a position.
I don't understand why you are saying this along this thread.
> If you're convinced you're sick, then sick you'll stay.
Hopefully, no one with a disease will ever be convinced of it so that their doctors can effectively treat them.
I'm sorry, Linkadge. No way does that make sense to me.
> I am doing better than I was. I am not happy by any strech of the imagination, but I am doing better.
As was mentioned before, pharmacotherapy does not bring happiness, it only attends to the biological component of MDD or BD that might be getting in the way of pursuing it. Happiness is something that you must work at, even in the absence of depression. Drugs are not "get-happy" pills. They are not "anti-problems" pills. They are merely biological "anti-depressants". :-)
> Oh and I got the information that most depressions do not last longer than a year from the book "Drugs and the Brain" by Solomon H. Snyder.
OK. Thanks. I'll see if I can pull something off the Web. He might be right.
- Scott
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