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Re: I doubt I will ever fully recover

Posted by Meltingpot on April 6, 2010, at 15:21:35

In reply to I doubt I will ever fully recover, posted by linkadge on April 2, 2010, at 14:08:08

Hi Linkadge,

From my own experience.

My depression/anxiety started at the age of 17 (although I thought I was physically ill at the time) After a year of going back and forth to the hospital convinced I was dying of some awful uknown disease I stopped bothering and sort of plodded on with my life. From the age of 17 to 24 I didn't have a boyfriend, hardly went out and had very little drive or passion for life, inspite of the fact I was considered very attractive and intelligent.

Then at the age of 24 my symptoms seemed to get worst. I was convinced I had a lung disease, I even went to see a lung specialist who just told me off for smoking and made me feel even worst.

Then after breaking down in my doctors office and crying he put me on prothiaden (a tryciclic). From that moment onwards I never looked back (until now) and my life suddenly seemed to start again. It felt miraculous really.


The prothiaden stopped working the same five years later and I stopped them but I never felt as bad as I had at the age of 24 so I don't think the prothiaden made things worst, if anything, it sort of fixed me.


9 years ago I stopped Seroxat and after three fairly normal years my depression and anxiety resurfaced and since then nothing has worked very well.

There are many people who take antidepressants for a while and then come off them and go back to feeling "Normal" again. Antidepressants don't seem to have harmed them.

Like you, I'm now in a catch 22 situation where I can't seem to live with antidepressants and I can't live without them. I don't feel well on them and I feel absolutely horrible off them. However, unlike you, I don't think the medication has made things worst. I don't think it helps that much anymore but I don't think it has made things worst. In fact I can't see how they could of made things any worst.

I felt pretty bad between the age of 17 to 24 and during that time I never really got better just worst. In a way I was glad I did get worst because if I hadn't then I would never have been put on medication.

I wish you wouldn't blame the medication for making you worst because that (in a way) is like blaming yourself for taking them in the first place.


Denise


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