Posted by SLS on March 24, 2016, at 13:48:18
In reply to Re: Tricyclics quick acting??, posted by B2chica on March 24, 2016, at 13:09:47
Good work!
:-)
- Scott
> i dont know how this is possible, (nor does most of me care) but..
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> i started the amitriptyline two nights ago, already yesterday i noticed a reprieve from the extreme unbearable turmoil going on inside my body and brain. today the same. i thought tca's took much longer to kick in?
> however, it is also really helping with sleep and anxiety and thinking the reprieve from that is also aiding my improved state.
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> regardless, i no longer feel that agitated or mixed state (whatever they want to call it). i have depression still, very clearly. but i no longer am battling constant instrusive thinking or longing for death.
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> the interesting thing is also that i have noticed a very clear shift in my tolerance for depressive state. i think a year ago how i feel now would have been hard to deal with. and right now, so soon after that incredible decent to madness of symptoms i feel like i can breathe again. do i feel joy in anything? no do i laugh and enjoy things? no. do i feel sad? yes. lost? yes.
> however, i also feel very ...contemplative. and also just very tired.
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> and maybe a month from now these same symptoms will feel heartbreaking to deal with.
> but for now...i'm breathing. i'm sleeping. and i'm even able to eat a bit in the evenings. (as i was basically living on liquids this last week).
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> anyway. i guess i was just/am just suprised and maybe a little bit weary that i'm feeling so different, so quickly.
> but certainly not complaining.
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> thank you folks for sticking in there with me and for so many responses to my TCA questions.
> b2
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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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