Posted by manowar on December 4, 2001, at 13:32:34
In reply to Re: SPECT imaging has its place in psychiatry » manowar, posted by MB on December 4, 2001, at 10:17:00
> I'm going in less than two weeks for one of these SPECT scans. I'm totally nervous. I've been off of medication for over a year (sometimes handling it well, other times not so well). I've just had bad luck with pharmaceuticals...they either don't work or make things worse. I'm hoping they will be able to see something -- some kind of clue -- that will help them figure out something that will work. If not, I think I'm going to give up on medication (maybe not forever, but at least until they come up with something *drastically* new). I'm hopeful that they might find an answer, and, at the same time, I'm scared that they won't. Maybe there's just not a medication out there that would help me. That's a freaky thought, I guess.
I know how you feel. I wanted to get a clean bill of health, but at the same time I wanted for them to find a problem. I was really scarred that my scans would be normal! But realistically, I knew there had to be an explanation to my problems. Again, going through the procedure has done more for me psychologically than I could have gotten from a lifetime of psychotherapy. There was so much guilt, denial, anger, and frustration that had built up in me over the last 15 years. I keep reminding myself that folks that take heart medication for a malfunctioning heart don't beat themselves up for having the condition. They just get the best medical treatment they can get. What's the difference with the brain? Of course, many people "think" themselves into a depression, but at the same time many people don't. I just wasted a lot of time and effort thinking I had "thought" myself into my depression.
Good luck with the scans. Please let us know how you did.
--Tim
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