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Re: Nothing else, but meds helped me.

Posted by bulldog2 on April 20, 2008, at 18:28:28

In reply to Nothing else, but meds helped me., posted by Shadowplayers721 on April 18, 2008, at 7:07:22

> After reviewing one of the studies about anti-depressants, it got me wondering about how much do people realize the effectiveness of their medications.
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> I am super in tune with my self. I would say way more than average. I consider myself sensitive.
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> After trying exercise, herb, over the counter remedies, medication, talk therapy, and breathing techniques, reading book, prayer, I felt ready to dive into anti-depressants. I literally felt a calmness come over my nervous system with the first pill. It didn't take four weeks to feel a drastic change.
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> I could listen to people talking. I could see colors and it was like a some opened up the curtain to let the light in my house. I wasn't arguing with everyone in my life anymore. I didn't have road rage.
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> I could see how much my life had gotten out of hand, my things were in such discord. I could laugh, but I did still cry.
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> Yes, I had some GI problems with the meds, but I felt like a different person - calmer.
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> Even if it was a false world, I wanted to be there . The Hellish self-tormented world that I was in was smothering me, taking away my relationships, and destroying my life.
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> Now, I would describe my depression as severe and unabated.
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> So, I wonder if others in studies see and feel how much their meds to change them for the better or is it that their depression wasn't as severe to notice such changes. Even food had more detail and texture.
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> Life overall was more enriched. At first, this was scary as Hell, because it was overwhelming. But soon, I preferred this than the numbing dulling painful anger mixed lethargy that had ruled my life for decades.
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> Meds saved my life. It's a constant balancing act to keep them level, but I would much rather do that than go back to what I was without them.
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> I still feel that I have a way to go, but I did make progress. That's good enough for me.
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Thank you for your story. I have always tried to live a healthy life style but still suffer from depression and anxiety. Sometimes a healthy life style does "cure" someone and than they think that's what we all need. Many of us have tried the good diet, exercise, meditation etc route and it hasn't really helped that much. So one turns to meds as a final resort.There's a tendency to blame the patient for not living a healthy lifetstyle and looking for an easy fix in meds when that's often not the case.

 

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