Posted by Ezekiel on May 23, 2008, at 4:34:47
In reply to Re: PBS Show About Depression, posted by SLS on May 22, 2008, at 22:13:14
Scott - that is simply astounding, it took you literally decades to cull together a magic cocktail of pills that finally adequately treated your depression?
My hang up has been relentless dysthymia the last 13 years interspersed with your occasional moderate to major depressive episodes, oh the joy of it all!
Anyways, please excuse my curiosity but I have to ask how you finally arrived at your AD regimen - care to disclose the concise version of the path? Did you recruit the help of pdocs all
along the way?I just began seeing a psychiatrist again for the second time in my life (last time was nearly a decade ago), and he proceeded to fling a diagnosis of ADHD at me after dialoguing for an 1 1/2 hrs - I walked out of his office (he happens to be a prominent researcher at the renown Massachusetts General Hospital) with a script for Ritalin for inattention & Valium for my intermittent insomniac periods. Well, I'm sort of still reeling from this encounter, I've never really considered this to be a core issue but he believes it's quite possibly driving everything (i.e., my rumination, anxiety, etc) WOW, who really knows you know?! Us depressives learn to live with a fair amount of resignation due to our failed trials of pharmacological intervention, so it becomes very hard to conjure any enthusiasm concerning a new "drug mediated opportunity" that will allegedly this time punch through the gray clouds of melancholy.
Ok I must apologize, I just realized I hijacked this thread by droning on about myself, my bad. I guess I needed to engage in a moment of catharsis - signing off . . . Zeke
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