Posted by iris2 on September 16, 2004, at 22:26:19
In reply to Re: Cymbalta Newbie and Psycho-Babble Newbie » iris2, posted by mattw84 on September 16, 2004, at 21:40:16
Matt,
Thanks forthe information. I just had no idea what theterm meant.
As for not relying on medication to feel better I only partly agree. For people who have a slight depression often started by some occurence in thier life I agree and think that meds are simply an easy way not to work on the real issues that got them in the place they are in life. Then there are those of us who have chronic severe depression. Who perhaps have gone through years of therapy, in my case with no meds most of the time to absolutely no avail. In an abundance of these cases especially if the illness has been long term medication is almost never the entire answer in MHO. I think meds are just the initial step. They give you a stepping stone to be able to work on those issues. The ones you see who are curred miraculously by God or AA or something outside themselves and not meds I think are in this first catagory. In the second I think medication when it works only gets most of us to this starting point. The rest is a lot of hard work or as you so rightly put it we can not do the work and be saticfied to just not be so depresseed anymore. I myself want to be able to try. Even this small amount of Amisulpride is doing a little and has motivated me to do everything I can to be more social and exorsize so that I will feel even better and if I do then maybe I can go to a next step.But medication alone will not be the end all. Perhaps I will one day again feel well enough to work.
So do not be so hard on yourself. You are probably in need of the meds you are taking. I think believing that a severe depression will go away with God is just rediculous to put it nicely.irene
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