Posted by Jason Lohr on May 6, 2001, at 10:18:39
This message may help you.
Remember when Wanye R. posted about his miracle? When John L. finally found the right cocktail? When Andrew B. offers encouragement and insight from a man who has overcome depression?
I have good news to share with you, too.
My story is anecdotal. But something happended to me almost six weeks ago and I am feeling better for the first time in a long, long time.
Diet.
Don't roll your eyes, yet. Read the book: The Metabolic Typing Diet. It has given me a second lease on life.
I am not out of depression, and I have a long way to go. But I am smiling. I am glad to be alive. Six weeks ago I was sleeping in my car during the days, wanting deserately for God to take me.
I have suffered with treatment resistant severe depression, anxiety, ADD for at least 3-4 years. I have suffered from anxiety for 10 years. I have tried a lot of medicine...perhaps 20 different meds. I have been to many doctors, including a 3 month stay at the Menninger Clinic (regarded as one of the better mental health facilities in the country)...
I have gone to hell and back a million times...
But today is different. I am off medicine. I stopped Effexor, one of the three meds of my most recent cocktail, eight days ago. Each day I can feel my body and mind coming back to health. I have a ways to go. Perhaps I am still a bit scared of this whole progress...but I share with you some hope that things might turn around.
What your psychiatrist doesn't know about mental health could be hurting you.
Read the book. It has given me a second chance.
Warm Regards,
Jason Lohr
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