Posted by blueboy on July 17, 2008, at 9:50:56
In reply to Want to stop meds ... should I?, posted by Maxime on July 16, 2008, at 20:48:26
> I have been the least depressed in my entire LIFE since the month of March. Every day is like a miracle for me ... I feel like a miracle.
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> I changed my meds a bit in February, but something else happened in Feb as well. I attempted suicide and ended up in a coma. My psychiatrist doesn't know if my remission is the results of the meds I am on ... or the coma. I had several seizures before I went into a coma and he thinks my brain may have re-wired itself.
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> I don't know what to believe. I feel better now even more than my time on Parnate in 2003.
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> I would like to get off meds if possible, but I am scared. I don't know what is holding me together.
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> Should I just stay on the meds until I have been stable for a longer period? I really don't know what to do. My psychiatrist says it's up to me.
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> Any advice would be great.
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> MaximeI'd say, if you're feeling good, stay on the meds. I have heard a lot of people, including doctors, say that one problem with treating depressive patients is that, when the meds work, the patient decides they aren't sick any more rather than deciding that the medication is working.
Of course, nobody knows for sure. It's certainly plausible that the seizures had a beneficial effect. After all, ECT and insulin-therapies apparently work by inducing seizure. Or you could be having a natural remission.
But when AD's work, their effect is sometimes characterized by an initial suicide attempt. That makes me tend to think that the AD is at least partly responsible for your relief from depression.
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