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Re: Parnate dosing schedule » g_g_g_unit

Posted by SLS on June 20, 2012, at 1:44:42

In reply to Re: Parnate dosing schedule » phidippus, posted by g_g_g_unit on June 19, 2012, at 21:32:50

> A lot.

Whenever I start a new drug, I usually defer thinking about my ultimate response to it for a few weeks. I know that it will take at least that long for it to work, so I try to put it out of my mind and go about my business. However, when I enter the third week and nothing happens, I begin to think about what to do next. I don't have very much patience at this point, especially if the depression is particularly painful.

Many of us are so focused on reaching our goal, it occupies much of our waking hours thinking about how to achieve it. The quality of our lives remains so poor in the meantime, that our pain and cognitive dysfunction are always right in our faces. It is hard not to think about it. There is no escape from misery without finding a successful treatment.

GGG, you are in a position where effects are pummeling you 24/7. How can you not focus on your treatment so intently?

I told my doctor that, at this point, I only want to learn the minimum necessary to get well and continue my journey through life. I lost my passion for neuroscience and psychiatry a long time ago. Once I have achieved the goal, I can begin thinking about other things. My doctor noted that it is perfectly understandable that a person in my position be motivated and driven to reach the goal of remission to a point where it looks very much like obsession. Is it obsession to focus your attention on nothing else when your hand is being held over a flame?

There must be balance. Obsessing over illnesses and treatments every moment of every day takes away from one's ability to live in the moment and extract as much positive experience and personal growth as the illness will allow for. Of course, the more severe the depression, the less there is to work with. Many people have no capacity to experience anything beyond their depression. For them, there is nothing left but emptiness and in constant pain. There is no other moment to live in. Life is a prison, and each moment is Hell.

The moment I achieve my goal of responding adequately to treatment is the moment I take my first step away from psychopharmacology and toward the building of a new life with my focus on positive, constructive, rewarding, and fun things. I think I'll sell some cars and resume my study of women.


- Scott


Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.

- George Bernard Shaw

 

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