Posted by JadeKelly on January 28, 2009, at 14:25:26
In reply to Re: Risk of prolonged use of anti-depressives » JadeKelly, posted by antigua3 on January 28, 2009, at 13:06:12
> OK, I see what you're saying. I've found that medication has helped and hurt my therapy, but it has been necessary. I needed the drugs to blunt my feelings enough so that I could travel down difficult paths, and once I reached some difficult places, the medication helped me handle it better. But, when I'm at the most difficult junctures (and how do I know what those really are; I'm probably full of it, thinking I know these things), I've made greater progress being off the meds and being able to feel.
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> It's like a juggling act. I need the meds to get there, but I need to be off of them sometimes to go deeper. But I wouldn't have gotten there w/o the meds to relieve the depression that these feelings have caused.
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> I don't know. I'm probably wrong. It's probably a lot more biological than I want to admit. And I certainly understand you saying that you need to be stabilized before you are strong enough to begin the therapy.
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> Wishing you the best of luck,
> antiguaHi antigua,
Don't know if you'll get this but first, I want to apologize. I reread your post and was unaware you were suffering from PTSD. I really feel it was wrong for me to try and understand what treatment would or wouldn't be best for someone with your diagnosis. And I'm sorry you suffered whatever you did.
Second, my symptoms of complete shutdown were well into place before I started treatment, so we have a difference there as well.
It seems to me its all so individual, my cognitive skills were crap while I was depressed, I'm still dealing with that, ha. And we're to go get the best care while in that condition.
Its all very difficult but doable. I think it just takes longer for us to figure it out when in a diminished state of mind.
I hope you get this and good luck to you ;-)
~Jade
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