Posted by fenix on February 28, 2006, at 15:30:34
In reply to Re: Suicide on Effexor, posted by Devastated Mother on February 26, 2006, at 12:23:35
I would be interested in reading Dr. Bob's feelings on that. Many of us are not physicians and it would be useful and comforting to see a doctor's perspective.
It is unfortunate that you must suffer from something that was supposed to save. That is one of the greater pains of psychiatry I feel. I know of this personally.
Please have comfort in knowing that you do not suffer in vain, even though it may seem that way. There are many who do not like the current state of things when it comes to certain medicine; hopefully things will change for the better so that the future of the world does not have to go through such things.
There is a great thing to be learned actually in Voltaire's Candide. It has to do when Candide and his friend arrived at El Dorado. Things were amazing there; a real paradise of a civilization with great inventions of engineering, art and music, and it was all hidden away from everything. Everyone was happy and there was no suffering. But, why was it like that in El Dorado?
Because they didn't have to care about money. In fact, they were completely foreign of the idea.
For you see, in El Dorado, there were endless amounts of pebbles on the ground, however, on closer inspection, they were not of stone but precious gems! You could take a handful of El Dorado's "dirt" and have more wealth than all the kings in the world combined. Because El Dorado just had so much vast wealth, everyone could focus on what is really important instead of the idea of earning money getting in the way.
Our World is not an "El Dorado". Here, money is of first importance merely because of the means in which money is aquired in our World; you don't just waltz down the road and pick up diamonds along the way. Our health is secondary, our quality of medicine is secondary, whether you or I suffer less is secondary. Everything is subservient to money.
> Dear oneffexortoo,
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> For me the more important question is, Why would a doctor, knowing this reaction is a possibility, not monitor more carefully?
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> Has "do no harm" been forgotten? I truly do not understand this at all.
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> DM
> > Why DOES this happen anyway? Why do some people get MORE depressed.. or have other "scary", "weird" feelings they didnt have even when depressed?
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