Posted by Angela5 on November 6, 2000, at 16:14:24
In reply to Re: Keep talking, we're all ears!!!!, posted by shar on November 6, 2000, at 11:08:40
Thanks, everyone, for all of your support. It is definitely nice to learn that I'm not completely alone...
Does anyone have that annoying problem of family members (or whomever) comparing them to "their" depression, or that of someone else they know? Not to minimize anyone else's experiences - I mean, many are much worse - but often the people who do this have a completely closed mind. Depression normally comes with a special kind of sensitivity and attunement (is that a word?) to others; is this missing in these people who have experienced it? Actually, when I think about it, it is mostly men in my life - former significant other, my stepfather, etc. - that do this. I think in them it is just one more manifestation of our cultural "training" gone awry.
To answer questions raised by some of you, I do have a pdoc and do take meds. However, as many of you are all-to-familiar, I am in the throes of that wonderful, trial-and-error phenomenon that seems necessary to psychiatric treatment. I keep thinking that I just have to be patient a little while longer, but what if I run out of meds to even try??
Oh, well. Anway, I've lost my train of thought, so I will go for now...
Thanks again,
Angela
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