Posted by lil' jimi on July 16, 2003, at 15:39:45
In reply to Re: alcohol versus lexapro, posted by Doug in PA on July 16, 2003, at 4:26:00
hi there, Doug in PA,
you wrote to wingdalean:
> I am not sure I understand your last comment about being a Christian. What is your point? Are you ashamed or proud of it? Would it have been any different if you were a Jew or athiest? Your problems would still be the same. Look into your own heart for solutions or poisons. God helps those who help themselves.
> ========================================replying to wingdalean's post:
> > Synopsis: after 25 years of abstinence & 8 years of wellbutrin I switched to Lexapro for OCPD - I then proceed to begin drinking alcohol since April. Almost daily between 4 & 12 oz of whiskey or the equivalent. Paradox is I feel better emotionally then I have ever. Physically I used to be a highly obsessive athetic who was OCDed in every aspect of living. I am only concerned about the relationship of my wife & I. I am also a Christian. I don't really know what to say I just wanted to share this.
>
>you know, Doug,
i don't know wingdalean from adam, BUT ... ...if i was writing here with his synopsis and i'm living the tale it tells
... ... (and i think that between the lines it reads very loudly, "I'M DESPARATE!!") ... ...(with my apologies and all due respect to wingdalean ... we'll go over your path to destruction below)
... and when folks get as desparate as a lot of us are when we come here ... for the kind of reasons we come here ... ... or as desperate as wingdalean should be ....
.. ... ... and come here looking for help and support and advise ...
.... then, imho, it makes a certain sense to me that they might invoke any means of control or restraint or discipline, including their faith ... i would even think it all the more likely that, under such circumstances, they would bring up their religion ...
(of course, in the good dr.dbob's wisdom, there's the Faith board for those specific discussions about religion ... but wing's was a comment not a subject)
i also sense that wingdalean is citing his motivations and priorites in his concern about alcohol: he is committed, and devout ... i can hardly imagine anything less trivial than those facts when one struggles, or is about to, with recovery ... ... i feel this is why wingdalean offered them to us as background ... ...
... and when folks come here and open themselves up to share their private and personal sufferings and experiences, i would think it would be better if we let them feel free to share their beliefs ... ...
Now, WingDaLean,
Sorry to talk around you like that, pardner ... ... just felt like i had to stick up for you a little bit ... for what it's worth, i'm a buddhist and i don't drink alcohol much at all ... ... well, nothing compared to what you're doing anyway ...you are telling us that after 25 years you have fallen off the water-wagon and this may have been part of switching from Wellbutrin to Lexapro ... ... and it is rather more like you Dived Off the wagon there, from these quantities you're talking ... ...
so:
(what is OCPD? ... OCD i know ... ocpd? ... hmmm)how much of your synopsis does you Doctor know?
you should, of course, be checking with your professional health care provider about this very serious Side-Effect ....what does your Wife think of this change in your habits? ... Does She know?
(inside yourself, what does your faith tell you?)
i think we may safely predict the response from everyone concerned for you .... can't we? ... ... and i'm going to give you the same response here, now ... ...
WingDaLean, ol' buddy, don't we all think it about time to mosey on over to our soonest AA meeting? ... hey, maybe?
.. ... .. at least, for your marriage?
seems to me that drinking (that much) alcohol while taking an AD, is going be about as effective as p*ss*ng into the wind ... ... alcohol, in case we all haven't heard, is a major depressant ... which is going to undo everything good your lexapro (anti-depressant) does for your neurotransmitters ...
TAKE CARE!!
~ jimp.s. of course, i may be all wrong ... ...
poster:lil' jimi
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