Posted by francesco on March 31, 2004, at 16:28:02
In reply to Re: question for anyrbody on a mood stabilizer, posted by waterfall on March 29, 2004, at 17:40:04
> Now off of mood stabilizers (tried Lithium then spent 10 years on Depakote) and anti-depressants I would say that while I could feel happy, true joy was not there. There was a certain vitality that was just gone. It was worth not being so depressed I couldn't work or live alone, but now that I'm not miserable I'm very glad to be off the meds as its more than just the very highs and very lows that the meds stop - whole ranges of perfectly normal and healthy feelings aren't there. On the bright side (??) you don't realize what you're missing when you're on them. You remember that you felt more, but its not dreadfully pressing. I wouldn't recommend it for a lifetime, though.
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I liked very much the part in which you say: you don't realize what you're missing when you're on them. It's quite the same as an example for all the antidepressants that lessen sexual desire or sexual sensations. I have been on Zoloft for just a week so far and my libido seems to be gone. But I can't miss it since I can't remember exactly how it used to be !!! Are mood stabilizers supposed to be curative after a long usage ? I mean, I don't think antidepressants are curative, but is it a different kind of story for the mood stabilizers ? They normalize something or what ?
(sorry for my weird english, I'm not motherlanguage)
poster:francesco
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