Posted by Ritch on February 27, 2002, at 9:52:13
In reply to Having the rug pulled out from under you, posted by misty99 on February 27, 2002, at 9:00:57
> Hi,
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> I wanted to pick up on the "How do you know you're feeling good" thread in which people described feeling so great and then having the med poop out.
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> Again, I had a similar experience - I had gotten to the point where the St. Johns Wort was working so great, I was doing so many things effortlessly, including boring tasks that are normally very hard for me as someone with LD/ADD. But the rug has been pulled out again as in spite of trying possible every trick in the book, the SJW refuses to work.
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> Anyway, how do you deal with the fact that you got to see what it is like for normal people before someone essentially told you that this is cruel joke? I guess if I had had several years of consistent brain chemistry, it would be one thing but that hasn't happened.
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> I know I am more fortunate than other people on this board but it still stinks, big time. Maybe I need to accept that brain upheaval is going to be a fact of life but somehow that doesn't seem like a good solution either. Anyway, if people can share what strategies have worked for them in similar situations, I would greatly appreciate it.
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> MistyHi Misty,
Do your depressions have a cyclic nature? There are unipolar depressives that have a cyclic nature to their recurring depressions. If you have seasonal depression that is a good example. If this is just part of a *cycle* it might just be you need to up the meds or tweak them somehow to become responsive again. I have seasonal bipolarII which requires med changes throughout the year. Sometimes it just turns into a waiting game for the remission. In my case it turns from having the rug pulled out from under you to a *magic* carpet ride you hadn't planned on.
Mitch
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