Posted by clb149 on November 1, 2003, at 23:17:40
In reply to Re: Anyone had success on Effexor XR? , posted by Harley66 on November 1, 2003, at 22:37:14
I believe the medical community is ignorant to the fundamental causes of eating disorders. Also there is a callous attitude that the person with the weight/eating problem should "just" exercise and eat less and that will solve the problem. Inability to comply demonstrates weakness and obstinence on the part of the patient.
I "fired" my last psychiatrist because I went there for help with an eating disorder and then gained 40 pounds. I got tired and frustrated of trying to explain my "symptoms" to someone (slender) who was preconceivably dead set with blaming it on some etherial unrelated behavior abnormality.
I don't see any of them volunteering to wear a 100 lb sack of sand around for a week just to sample the suffering of their patients during the low impact exercise of walking (or standing, or getting out of a chair).
Being heavy is depressing. That in turn causes one to eat to experience some form of pleasure. The pleasure connection and its ensuing biochemistry are one key element (that is not understood) in solving this dilema. Of course the pleasure causes guilt and weight gain which in turn causes you to feel bad and round and round it goes.
I wish I had the answer as I stare at my little pile of hershey kiss wrappers wishing now that I never consumed them and relieved that, at this moment I don't crave eating them.
Effexor was just another expensive failed experiment. One that I questioned from the outset but was rammed down the preverbial pharmaceutical pipeline. I have quit taking it outright for 2 days after weaning myself for the past two weeks. I was experiencing the brain and body "shocks" on my regular dosage and to miss a day was hell. Now, the shocks are here somewhat continually but they are lessening in intensity and frequency. It will pass. And eventually so will I, probably "prematurly" from the "side effects" of obesity. At least the cravings and related physical ailments will be gone. I am not going to rush it by mechanical means (ie suicide) though, in reality, that is precicely what I am doing, with food.
Sorry, I am not the harbinger of good cheer or hope. Best of fortune in your search.
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