Posted by malcolm664 on June 15, 2007, at 22:18:13
In reply to 4 Years later, still feeling bad, posted by Dysfunk on June 15, 2007, at 17:48:43
> I was re-reading my experiences in 2003 with Effexor on this board. I don't think I got any better after all this time. I have had moments of calm, but the depression has never lifted and it has even gotten worse. Granted, I have gone through some very trying times with loss and death. The only time I felt good was on Prozac in 1990, and then it stopped working for me.
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> I can't find a therapist I click with, and I want to try a psychopharmocologist, but how do I pick one?
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> I am feeling hopeless and wondering if I should just except this state of being as who I am or keep experimenting with medication?
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> Feeling very alone.
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> Anybody ever share these feelings of never thinking you will get better? Any suggestions?I share your pain. I have often wondered if meds will ever be completely effective and the answer is no. They never will be. At least with what we know about how the mind works at this point and time. It's all so damn complicated and subjective.
So the best that we can hope for is a racheting down of one's symptoms to a tolerable level.
But having said that it's not as though I'll ever stop trying to find "the miracle med" which works for me.I realize I just contradicted myself, but that's the truth.
Malcolm
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