Posted by lil' jimi on September 13, 2003, at 20:30:35
In reply to POOP OUT!!!!!!!!!!, posted by BLKVETTES on September 13, 2003, at 13:26:32
Wayne !
Man! ...
... ... that subject line!
... ... With _your_ pBab name ??
... "hello, jim? ... are ready for our freak out of the day ?" ...
... ... in side my head, it felt like, " eye-eeeeeeeee-i-yikes-a-moon-Doh, Teammates !! "
.... .... i mean this looked like some real bad news, man!_You_ had _Me_ Going there ... ( !!!!!!!!! ) ... man !
... it felt good though ...
... and i came out of it without a scratch on me, too ! ....
... kinda fun, in a rollercoaster kinda way ...man, i am under so little stress, i need to thank you giving me the good awake up .... !
not that i'm complaining or anything ... no way ! .... .... work my last nerve any way that you need to, no sweat ... just so long as it turns Out, you're still doing ... okay? ... okay .... are you doing okay ?
... i'm just so relieved that you're not in a crisis from some would-be poop out crash or who knows what ... ... so, just so long as nothing real dire or urgent is zapnin, we can handle everything else ...
... okay ?oh, And PLEASE, go ahead and “steal” anything i ever write here ... ... if only because i know you will use it for good ...
> >>>>>>>>"poop out" is Not a consistently reported lexapro experience (imho and from these reports) and still has a mythic spectre shadow-like quality ... ... or whatever ... ... at any rate, the evidence i have seen for lexapro poop out is extremely thin and is (at least) not documentable as an expectation of lexapro ... especially when compared with other ssris ...
>
> >>>>>>>>>hear what i'm saying here?
>
> >>>>>>>>"NO LEX POOP OUT !"
> "NO LEX POOP OUT ! "
> ... we chant ...
> (they have called me a cheerleader around here ... and now this will be one of our cheers, see?)
> ... ... <and as i would say .... HA!>
>
> I stole your words here Jim hope you dont mind. I thought maybe I was going through this poop out thing several times. But each time I rebound without doing anything with my dose. Everyone on earth gets depressed and I find that I can figure out now why Im depressed. Such as getting the flu, it makes everyone depressed. My wife drinking gets me depressed at times. My oldest daughter is due in less than 30 days and the baby has not turned. Just stuff everyone deals with day to day in life. Some worry about money and their jobs etc. etc. etc. No matter what med we are on we are going to be depressed about something time to time. When these things that depress us resolve themselves good chance these depressive feelings will go away also as they have with me. Lexapro or any med itself will not stop this type of depression. Now if everything in your life is perfect and you still feel depressed and nothing on earth makes you happy then we have a problem. I also find my anxiety shoots up time to time. Once again I can figure out why if I try. Such as the flu, aches and pains and stress. Everything from the above I would not have even given a second thought to a little over a year ago. But now some of us want to blame everything on our med when things get tough. Some of our problems are just everyday thoughts and feelings of life. Its ok to be depressed time to time, its going to happen and no med is going to stop it!!!! We just have to realize that this is normal for every living person on earth!!!!!!! I hope this makes sense some how!!!!!! HA!!!! TAKE CARE!!!!!!!!!
> WAYNE
>i think we have had lots of evidence of how very different Lexapro can be from the other ssris .... .... and how different it is even from its mother Celexa ... ... comparisons are inevitable in a world full of suffers looking for hope ....
anyway, Wayne, you make perfect sense to me ...
... i got it easier than you and our other posters who fight anxieties ...
... start lex ... they get worse
... change dose ... they get worse
... waitin for kick in ... makes em worse
then, if you're really lucky ... you get relief!
... only to have to be haunted by the possibility of poop out .... making them worse !
... all of this on top of all of the other SEs and symptoms that we are all having to fight ...
>
>but i got to tell you, brother Wayne, i have been worrying about you, man
... i tell what you have already told about yourself here ...... almost all of us come here with some neurochemical challenge and have turned to lexapro for support .... .... we (may) have some neurotransmitter(s) deficiency or another and lexapro helps to build them back up
... which implies that neurochemicals are a limited resource and that we can run out of them ...now this is, of course, just me ... but i think that your dose may be a little too low ... because i think you should have a little more cushion to try to give the neurotransmitters a little more support ... ... so that the bumps on ride of life aren’t quite so harsh ...
... i do hear what you are saying about accepting some dips along the way ... ... and we really wouldn’t want to be happy all the time ... that would be a bad thing ... ... having a full range of functioning emotions is our ideal, and sadness should be included ... must be included in a spectrum of feelings that can let us feel fully alive ...
but i’m fearful that you may be wearing your internal neurochemical factories down ... ... all over again like ...
... .. you came here with one set of neurotransmitter needs .... and lex helped get you stable and your neurochemistry’s feet back on the ground ... ... this, in the face of the challenges you have there at the house there ... ... but things got okay and they are so much better that it looks like heaven by comparison to where you were ........ except (jim fears, here’s where jim crosses the line with his buddy,Wayne) that ... once you got some recovery from lexapro, you used your new neurotransmitter strength to try to help others ... which is a good thing ... ... but then you went beyond our pBab here and poured yourself into all those other boards and then e-mails ... from folks by the dozens ... ... all good and decent things to do ... ... but ... _maybe_, not to the point that it starts to wear down your internal neurochemical strength
... maybe not if the serotonin levels aren’t supported to higher levels ...
just my own humble opinion there, pardner ... ... hope you understand
i’m just trying to suggest that you might want to consider if you’re strecthing yourself too thin there ...
... and ...
if you should think about going up a Little bit ...... anyway ...
TAKE CARE !!
~ jim
poster:lil' jimi
thread:109458
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