Posted by stargazer2 on December 4, 2007, at 20:39:52
In reply to A different take on my health care crisis, posted by ClearSkies on December 4, 2007, at 8:12:10
Clearskies,
I think you and I will have to babble between ourselves regarding this issue, it's too cumbersome to discuss here in detail but I'm in a similar situation right now. I'm under Cobra which runs out in March so I'm pushing to find a job before then. I've always worked but had a few short term leaves before, so I know a bit about this situation, but you never know everything about it. The only way you can dealwith it is one day at a time. If it gets to March and I haven't found a job, I'll be in your situation. I never thought I would be out of work so long but after all drug trials this past 16 months, I have lost more life to this stinking depression. It has taken more days from my life than I have had without it.
When I feel better I don't even understand why it happens and after so many years we are really no better off than we were 20 years ago when I took Nardil for the first time and it worked. Most of the years in between then and now have been on new, highly touted drugs without any real improvement. What does that tell you?
So I really am the poster child for treatment resistent depression with the best psychiatry has to offer, which i have found to be more useless for me than perhaps living with depression and exercising more and taking alternaties. Who knows? That may be my recommendation for any newly diagnosed depressives, certainly not what I have gone through...this is not a success story, just a true life story of a young naive woman turned, middle aged (yikes) broad challenging her doctor for the truth. My doctor thinks I'm amazing, but who cares, I just want to live and not be a burden anymore. A job would help.
Stargazer
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