Posted by floatingbridge on June 27, 2011, at 16:23:38
In reply to Re: half thoughtsn » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on June 27, 2011, at 15:26:09
> >For you? Sleep most intractable?
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> After too long on 3 hours sleep a night I relented and decided to take 300mg gabapentin at bedtime.
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> For something that feels mild when you are awake, it is pretty good for sleep maintenance. Better than temazepam. I get 5 hours now, which is good enough.
>Very good. You take it at bedtime, as needed? The 'mild when awake' part is difficult with medication.... Sleep is cornerstone, imo.
> What is existential depression? That
life is pointless and painful? I feel better just saying it. Very funny indeed.:D oh good. I dunno. Had to google a bit to cobble together a meaning. Nothing I particularly hold to.
I thought about your last post re: philosophy. I remembered this therapist, and how much comfort she brought to the moment with her certain candor. She has a structure. Philosophy is being able to build something out of...thought/experience? Anyways, she wasn't in a rush to say this is or you are. She offered no hope other than that life
can feel better with less anxiety and a
cure wasn't possible, but less was definitely attainable. Warm but very
neutral. She didn't seem to be shaken by
despair, but, yeah, had made friends with it. She wasn't even particularly Buddhist which is the vogue here.I was cruising wiki and found 'New Wittgenstein'. I can't read one sentence of philosophy, but liked the entry. That philosophy was therapeutic, and words are tools.
O.K. my boy is home now. Thanks always for talking, sigi.
* and whoever gazes at the stars will never again be quite alone...
c-ptsd & attendant health concerns
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