Posted by bleauberry on August 3, 2010, at 18:25:45
In reply to Re: Please Help, not doing well at all » bleauberry, posted by Maxime on August 2, 2010, at 20:27:43
I know you feel broken beyond repair and I feel so much for you. I feel the same way most of the time. But it isn't true. It is the evil side trying to take our attention away from what really matters. But that's another story.
The problem is, the drug choices have probably been too confined. They are only antidepressants, antipsychotics, stimulants, and such. There are things that cause deep depression that none of those will touch because they are so off target.
How did my doctor become a Lyme expert? Because he noticed over time that many of his chronic depression patients got better when they took an antibiotic for some unrelated reason. Their fibromalgia got better the same way. Chronic fatigue cleared up. Even MS and brain lesions miraculously cleared up. By accidental discovery.
I am not at all saying you or anyone else has Lyme. Though it is certainly possible. What I am saying is, would any of those above diseased patients have gotten as well as they did had they not ventured outside of the normal treatment choices. No. A big fat no. By pure accident they did get outsdie of those normal treatment options. In your case, it doesn't need to be an accident. There are things you can do on purpose to see what happens. You and all of us have no problem at all in guessing blindly at one potent psychiatric drug after another, but we seem bewildered at the idea of trying any other treatment the same way. I don't get that. Backward logic.
My down to earth logic says that if a ton of psychiatric meds are not helping a lot, then the problem is coming from somewhere else that those drugs are not touching. In the lyme example, not a single psychiatric prescription is going to do a thing to suppress or kill those bacteria.
Like I said, it's another story, but my point is....it is time to broaden the horizons. The psychiatric toolbox is too limited in scope to treat all depressions.
> I've been on the Parnate and Nortrip. since October. Even though I feel like sh*t, I think I would actually feel worse if I stopped taking these meds. Sometimes I feel like I have hit rock bottom, only to find out that it wasn't really rock bottom. It's awful.
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> Adderall XR helped me before and it did not make me depressed. If this Lithium doesn't help me this week, I will ask for Adderall. I wanted to ask for it last week, but I also wanted to respect his choice of meds for me and I promised to try it for one week (the Lithium).
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> To be honest, I don't think that anything will help me. I am broken beyond repair. I really am.
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