Posted by rmshed on July 2, 2001, at 18:57:53
In reply to SAYING GOODBYE .... THANKS FOR SHARING, posted by dana on July 1, 2001, at 23:08:22
> If I sound patronising, please forgive me. I have only been accessing this site for about three weeks now and may appear to overstep the mark here and generalise. The one thing that frightened me while using this site is the apparent lack of THERAPY orientated treatment. It just seems that DRUG THERAPY is given first....with little mention of things like COGNITIVE THERAPY.
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> Please don't think that I have just come out of 'la la land'........I had been diagnosed with POST TRAUMATIC STRESS....which then led to DEPRESSION/ANXIETY and very very severe PANIC ATTACKS that crippled me for three weeks....and plagued me for the last two years.
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> My Doctor after a long discussion with me two years ago, said that part of the 'deal' she was making with me, was to put me on ZOLOFT, AND arrange for treatment with a well respected CLINICAL PYSCHOLOGIST......... I saw him the very next week, and continued to do so for nearly two years. We now email each other every month or so, just to maintain contact...
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> I never believed that medication was going to be a on-going thing.......I just assumed that the time will come and they will just be a thing of the past. I stopped the ZOLOFT nearly TWO months ago.....and am now totally relying on all the skills and techniques I learnt through my sessions....COGNITIVE and BEHAVIORAL treatment.
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> I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I didn't learn how to interrupt my OBSESSIVE thought patterns, and if I didn't learn the right breathing techniques, and didn't learn SELF-TALK.........there would be NO way under the sun that I COULD have come off the medication.......but I have........and although I sometimes struggle, I do have the KNOWLEDGE behind me......which mostly works, sometimes it doesn't as the MENTAL GYMNASTICS just gets too exhausting.....
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> Good luck to everybody,
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> I have decided to stop accessing this site....I feel that I am doing what is right for me, and I hope you all find the comfort and the help you need, whether it is through drugs AND/OR Therapy.
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> DanaDana:
It is fantastic that you were able to open your mind and learn those techniques. Finding a good therapist is a big help. Consider yourself very lucky, I wish I could find the courage to do what you did. I guess we are all different in what we need and what we will and can do to help ourselves.
Congratulations!
Becky
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