Posted by Glydin on August 11, 2004, at 9:34:20
In reply to Re: I hate when this happens........., posted by linkadge on August 11, 2004, at 7:47:31
> I just can't see it though. I know of nobody who is currently taking an AD for which it is working the same way it originally did. Everyone I've talked to says that after a year or so says they feel more or less right back where they started.
---You need to look into hangin' with a new crowd (sorry, a little humor).
---I actually do know AD successes ever SSRI's, I really do, a person really close to me who has been on Zoloft for three years and it is still working and they lead a good quality life. A coworker on Paxil five years who is able to work and has even been promoted. A friend on Celexa and Wellbutrin - travels like a fiend and enjoys life. Another friend on a TCA for several years that's a volunteer to the homeless and previously was suicidal. Maybe these don't seem like much, but d*mn if they didn't convince me SOMETIMES, things work. Is it the meds? Is it human spirit? H*ll, I don't really know. I just know they do stick with the chemicals. I'm not just blowin' smoke up your, well, you know, on the above stories. They are true. My answer is Klonopin. It's been good for me. I figure I have a finite number of days on this earth and if the finite number of pills, 1/2 pills, whatever gives me a contented, functional life - I gotta do what I gotta do to get there. I also have to keep a bit of hope that what worked yesterday will work tomorrow. So, while I know you're frustrated and I can well see why. Successes do happen.
> I don't really mean "just wait and you'll be sorry" what I mean is really just "curb your enthusiasm" because thats what really kills your spirits is when you put your hope in a treatment that just doesn't last.
---Agreed, but sometimes, it does. I know you are jaded and I understand where your truth comes from. Try to keep in mind words of finality like: Always, Never, Every... just don't fit most situations in life.
> I'm just really afraid that my brain is so dammaged from the crappy meds, that when a good med comes along it wont work anyway.---I can understand that as a concern. I also believe in the adaptable properties of the brain. Sometimes, the ability of the brain to actually heal is overlooked. The ability it retains to repair after "insult", if indeed the meds used have insulted. True neurotoxins (those substances the scr*w up the brain to a complete altered forever functioning) that cause unrepairable damage seem rare.... that's just my opinion.
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