Posted by med_empowered on March 21, 2006, at 9:46:58
In reply to Do you hate yourself?, posted by Meri-Tuuli on March 21, 2006, at 5:13:05
Oh yeah. Self-loathing is a big part of my existence. I've been on lots of meds and all I can say is you **probably** can't medicate this one away...at best, you can medicate away the RESULTS of self-loathing (example: as-needed benzos or antipsychotics for freak-outs or insomnia or what have you), but the core isssue will probably. Therapy helps...good friends help...
what might also help is getting just medicated enough so you can function reasonably well; I think once you can function well, your self-loathing level tends to go down...so you're not really medicating the self-loathing, just facillitating self-acceptance through minimal psychotropic use. If that makes sense.
poster:med_empowered
thread:622777
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20060315/msgs/622844.html