Posted by bulldog2 on March 28, 2010, at 10:15:43
In reply to I regret ever ingesting this crap, posted by linkadge on March 22, 2010, at 16:47:40
> I wish I never took medications for depression. I would have probably recovered by now and I wouldn't be dependant all this on worthless crap.
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> L:inkadgeNo comment on the meds. Just don't know enough about them. However your following statement is more than likely not true regardless of studies you may have read. Been there as have others waiting for the angels to cure us.
I would have probably recovered by now and I wouldn't be dependant all this on worthless crap.
Wishful thinking at best.(me) I probably became ill with depression in my early teens and never tried an AD drug until my early 40's. I guess I spent decades hoping that I would miraculously evolve into a normal being. Did tons of exercise,was macrobiotic for years (they promised a cure), a fortune spent on supplements etc. The disease actually progressed as time went on.
Have I found a cure with modern Psychiatry? NO! I have had my months of feeling better. I have had my months of felling awful. I guess I am happy for the months of feeling better. Before seeking treatment I lived a bell curve of levels of unhappiness.
I have also been around people (friends, family) who did not believe in medication and who were mentally ill. They did not appear to get better.So if you sit in your rocking chair and dream of the recovery you would be now enjoying had you not ingested worthless crap you can forget the dream. Just very unlikely that would have happened. Or maybe as likely as a blind man waking up one day with sight. Not here touting meds because I have no idea what help they have given you if any. But just straigtening out the idea (myth) that most of us would have just gotten better. The reality of nature is harsh. Things don't necessarily have good endings. Sometimes a person will have an episode of depression due to a bad situation they are experiencing. People can come out of those depressions as the situations resolve. BUT for those of us who experience a type of endogenous depression or other mental illness that began early in life the chance of spontaneous recovery seems very unlikely.
Sorry for the bad news.
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