Posted by SLS on April 20, 2011, at 5:05:43
In reply to Re: Prozac and Anafranil, posted by sigismund on April 19, 2011, at 21:36:30
> We're not quite as good as dead but we (PJ and I) are certainly over the hill. Some of it is just age and there is not such a lot you (we) can do about it. It's quite interesting, all the people I know who get cancer now, almost one a week (you might get something worth taking then, did wonders for my mother's depression). Dying takes a while too. So if you ever wondered why you are feeling bad........
At age 51, I am still looking to unleash whatever positive energy I have left in me. Depression has prevented this from happening since I was 17. I still feel young. I don't know at what age I would accept the status quo. I have some appreciation of how aging can shape the way one conceives hope and acceptance. I can only know me at age 51.It should be obvious by now that the questions I asked Phillipa were pointed and precipitated anger. Anger can be a very motivating emotion.
Phillipa: You can decline to answer my questions if you like. I wasn't aware that you had declared yourself dead. Am I being hard on you? You bet. I am frustrated for you. I want you to live free of anxiety for the years you have left. Perhaps I underestimate the pain you have suffered as a result of therapy for your mental illness. Under these conditions, I can understand how you would be reluctant to rock the boat. I am fortunate that my drive to be free of a hideous depression pushed me to look past the severe exacerbations of my condition that many drugs have caused. In reality, I have no choice but to continue trying new things, regardless of the number of treatment failures. Perhaps the severity of my depression leaves me no choice. If someone were to hold your hand over a flame, I bet you would struggle for your life to free yourself. This is how I experience depression.
While we are on the topic, what drugs made your condition worse? What drugs are you most afraid of?
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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