Posted by bleauberry on March 23, 2018, at 14:13:20
In reply to Re: insomnia on Nortrip! Help me block the NE SLS, posted by SLS on March 23, 2018, at 12:19:05
SLS you are treating me differently than you treat everybody else here. I don't think that is fair.
I am being bullied. Some of the questions and comments have a malicious attacking tone to them. I don't understand the hostility. I am ok with it though I don't understand it.
Pessimism and condescension are not helpful in psychiatry, if you ask me. Just my opinion.
After 20+ years of treatment resistant depression I was fortunate to run into two doctors and one nurse practitioner who knew how to undo the treatment resistant part of the equation. I say that is good. But you say not so fast. I don't get that. ??? Most people would be excited about that, I think?
Some of your questions have some genuine curiosity in them. But many of the other questions seem hostile. I don't get it. ???
I share what those M.D.s taught me. My goal is to see people get well. Really well. Not somewhat well. Really, really well. And fast. Three years is the longest it should take, if you ask me. Ok five years - add in 2 beginning years with psych meds, and then add on 3 years with other stuff. I say that because the doctors told me I was the toughest case they had seen, psychiatrically speaking. The toughest case they had seen was in remission in 3 years following their protocols and prescriptions. My case was worse than yours in terms of suicidality and hospitalization and failed ECT but 3 years did it.
Like you, I failed MAOIs and tricyclics and all sorts of exotic combos. Failed 12 bilateral ECT sessions that cost $28,000. But found remission on cheap generic meds and some herbs. My story is just one of millions. Remission is actually not that far away, when there is a comprehensive game plan that involves more than just psychiatric mono-therapy.
Decades-long fights to improve mood are not justified, if you ask me. That is just not acceptable to me. Healing shouldn't take that much time unless new ideas, new strategies, and success stories are purposely edited out. Then it gets a lot harder and longer and likely impossible at some point.
Most of what I have shared over the years has been met with hostility by SLS. I am ok with that. There are people here who have in the past, currently and in the future, experience genuine hope, genuine improvement of quality of life, from the things I bring here to share. People want answers and options. Especially when conventional wisdom is failing them.
Free will.
ALL options should be employed - Psychiatric meds, Western world meds, Eastern world twigs, leaves and buds. It does not involve re-inventing the wheel or winging it. Everything is spelled out in great detail, including substances, brands, doses, mechanisms, managing complications, making an accurate diagnosis, frequency, etc etc. I have fortunately, or unfortunately, depending how you look at it, 20 years, gathered mountains of experience and knowledge on all of those topics. It would be a crime for me not to help other people with what I know.
If sometime in your life you read either or both of the two books I suggested - both are cheap, easy to read, and full of stuff you can relate to - then I predict you and I will be more on the same page. It is not easy busting out of the psychiatric cocoon to invite other strategies on board. Been there, done that. Not easy. Great resistance. I was there. I get that.
I am just a messenger here. I speak the things my 2 doctors and 1 nurse spoke. I share what is in books with good track records. Many patients are sadly failed by establishment-like thinking by clinicians and conventional thinking by clinicians. The ones who do not operate inside echo chambers or conventional wisdom seem to get people well when other approaches fail.
Each of us is on a unique journey. Free will.
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