Posted by TeeJay on February 8, 2004, at 19:13:59
In reply to Re: lithium and st. john's wort interactions ? » TeeJay, posted by francesco on February 8, 2004, at 12:23:17
Hi Francesco,
Just typed in a lengthy reply to you and my machine froze so I'm now having to type it all in again :-(
Sorry to hear you feel so alone and desperate, I've been there many times myself. It should give you some comfort to know that i'm currently feeling rather better. It should eencourage you because no matter how bad you feel now, you WILL feel better and the bad times really do get forgotten soooo quickly too once you start improving. ITs actually quite scary just how quickly you forget just how bad you did feel. I'm sure I'll have more bad times along my long recovery road, but days like the last couple make the fight worthwhile.
I'd suggest ditching the alcohol. I started drinking quit a bit around christmas and the anhedonia and depressive symptoms became quite bad after a while (alcohol is a natural depressant when used regularly) and so I packed it up. It took a while and I felt a little worse for a few days, but after those first few days, there was little doubt that I started to lose the serious anhedonia.
Changing meds every week or so is no strategy at all in my opinion. Apart from your lithium, why not take a bit of a breather from all the stuff you've prescribed yourself? I've done this myself in the past to allow my body chance to stabilise on its own without being swamped with stuff. It kinda allows me to step back and re-evaluate as its hard to evaluate your symptoms when you rattle everytime you take a step if you see what I mean ;-))
I have a feeling selenium is supposed to be good for the prostate (if my memory serves me correctly anyway).
If I could offer you any advice at all, it would be to stop worrying. Its easy to get into a state where one is worrying about worrying, and if one isnt worrying, then its a case of worrying about why you aren't worrying! LOL Relax, get out in the fresh air and just enjoy being alive....it might not sound like much, but show yourself how good it is to actually be alive and you just might start to believe it after a while ;-))
Take care Francesco and keep the postings coming.
Teejay
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