Posted by hyperfocus on August 16, 2011, at 3:35:04
In reply to Compelled to quote.... » Dinah, posted by floatingbridge on August 12, 2011, at 1:11:18
The Sabo article starts with a valid premise - that alleviating chronic psychic pain can produce significant resolution of many psychiatric disorders - but it seems to fall in the same mindset of other doctors saying that psych meds somehow produce a euthymic effect as simple and uncomplicated as painkillers. The same mindset that sees what psychiatric patients go through as merely the same life circumstances and stressors that everyone goes through. There are a lot of people diagnosed with depression who could benefit from psychotherapy and CBT and lifestyle changes and better support and better coping skills, et.al. and should not be on psych meds. But what about the many, many people with complex syndromes and hard biological deficits? I don't understand psychiatrists who have so little empathy for the raw pain and suffering their patients go through, and treat them like difficult weak children who need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. It's as if you need to be running around naked threatening people with a knife or a bowl of Jello or something, to get psychiatrists to realize that what we have is every bit as real a disease as cancer. The brains of people with MI are demonstrably different and damaged and produced severely reduced emotional and cognitive functioning. What's so hard about understanding this?
fb I'm glad you found another doctor. Mental illness has nothing to do with personality or life circumstances. You can enjoy people's company and have crippling social phobia. You can be an eternal optimist and have debilitating depression. If your old doc has ideas about you seeking some sort of drug-induced emotional high or tranquilized calm, then it's good you moved on. There is NOTHING wrong about seeking meds to get better. If they want to they can withdraw all cancer drug therapy and tell the patients to take Vitamin C and diet and exercise and go for a vacation and a 2nd honeymoon and see how far that gets them.
C-PTSD: social phobia, major depression, dissociation.
Currently: 300mg amitriptyline + 200 mg sulpiride; single dose at night.
Also: Allegra, 1000mg Vitamin C.
Improving.
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