Posted by Pfinstegg on October 18, 2002, at 16:46:14
In reply to Re: For Blah.. what I sensed about you, posted by Blah on October 18, 2002, at 11:40:04
Gosh, Blah, I'm hearing so much hopelessness and depression in your posts- that the therapy can only be maintenance, and that loving relationships just aren't going to happen. Both of those things should be holding out promise,growth and some eventual happiness for you, but it looks as though all the good things in life have gone completely off your radar. I continue to feel strongly that you need something more than medication and psychotherapy to help you get started on a better track. You really are so normal in your hopes and desires, and obviously have high intelligence, and the potential to do lots of rewarding things in life, but you are so down right now. I get the feeling that you have been so depressed for so long that you are truly convinced that none of the good things in life can ever happen to you, no matter what efforts you make. This just isn't so, but no-one will be able to convince you of that while your depression is so severe.
If you think it would be helpful to you, my endocrinologist is near to deciding to use mefipristone on me, and I'd be glad to let you know if it is helpful-and to what degree. Since I know that my depression has a phsyiological component, I am paying a lot of attention to details like taking Omega 3 fish oil and synthroid combined with cytomel in very low doses along with the tianeptine. I have gone from being extremely suicidal in August to being kind of medium now, mood-wise- and I notice that I am able to make much better use of the psychotherapy. No one thing made a huge difference, but together they are all making a noticeable difference
What if you found out that your brain cortisol was totally off, and along with it, your thyroid hormone levels, and your transmitters for serotonin, nor-epinephrine and dopamine? Wouldn't you go for treatment aiming to normalize these things? I don't know where you live, of course, but larger cities with medical schools/centers have neuro-endocrinologists who can pull all of these things together and make sure that you receive the most up-to-date treatments available. Would it be worth discussing these things with your therapist?
Keeping you in mind...take care.
Pfinstegg
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