Posted by corafree on January 23, 2005, at 20:05:40
In reply to Re: MAYBE WE SHOULD RETHINK THE BENADRYL GUYS!!! » corafree, posted by dancingstar on January 23, 2005, at 14:25:44
No offense taken.
But, I was thinking ... here I am taking a drug and don't even know what it is doing inside my brain.
Ya' see, I've been in train wreck after train wreck. I've been on tricyclics and SSRIs, and they didn't work. So, along comes, what I now definitely know is an SNRI, Effexor-XR.
You get to a point where nothing has worked, you're losing your life, friends, husbands, whatever, and pray that somebody out there has developed something that will help; you count on 'them' to lessen the emotional pain which you can't tolerate anymore, and you just take it (the pill they hand you), like all the others before it, hoping it will be the one.
And, I believe borderlines tend to think badly of themselves to begin with, so may be even less likely to self-advocate. Dialectical behavioral therapy teaches life skills to people who have never known them (skills), and to people like me, who knew them and somewhere along the way, lost them.
I do appreciate hearing the bad and good because that means someone cares.
Maybe someday there will be an AD w/o side effects and fearful withdrawals, but prob' not during my time on this earth.
I'm just trying to keep my feet on the ground as long as I can, my life so altered from what it once was, in the depths of agoraphobia today ... yuch; but, maybe tomorrow will be better. cf
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