Posted by SLS on February 12, 2009, at 8:22:58
In reply to Re: Anyone else think about it this way? *may trigger* » Dinah, posted by TherapyGirl on February 11, 2009, at 21:30:21
> Exactly, Dinah. The only part of this I can control is how long I have to live with it.
Many years ago, I gave myself permission to take my own life. It was freeing. It took away the awful nightmare of having to be trapped inside myself and doomed to pain and misery for decades to come. I believe that there is such a thing as a rational suicide - autoeuthanasia. I resist any attempts by others to convince me otherwise. The thing is, depression can take out of the equation the word "rational". Depression distorts judgment so much as to change one's outlook for what the rest of their life will look like. But is this one of depression's lies, or is it a certitude? Tough call. I like to err on the side of continuing with life - just in case. I can always reverse my decision and go with autoeuthanasia. That, of course, is final. I'm not into final.
> There is not much to be done in the way of treatment because antidepressants are out for me (I'm one of the people for whom the Black Box warning was written.) And with the way it presented this time, I was completely out of options.
What happened when you combined Parnate with desipramine? Any Black Box stuff happening there?
Sorry, it was the logical thing to ask. This is the treatment that is currently bringing me into remission. Well, that is not exactly true. I had to add to those two drugs two more - Lamictal and Abilify. If you have not tried EVERY CONCEIVABLE SAFE COMBINATION, then I am not sure you should give up on biological treatments just yet.
I say all of this out of ignorance, of course. I don't know very much about you. Perhaps your experience with drugs is such that I don't fully appreciate.
- Scott
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