Posted by Katgirl on April 6, 2010, at 10:07:42
In reply to For Linkadge, posted by ed_uk2010 on April 5, 2010, at 11:20:23
Hi Linkadge-
I'm so sorry for your struggles. I know I often have some of the same thoughts. I DO think my brain has been damaged by withdrawal to Paxil and that I will never be the same after all the drug trials, BUT I still believe that the brain/body does have incredible healing powers. I was in a deep, dark suicidal can barely walk, can't feed myself or sleep depression for over two years. rTMS helped me to start crawling out of that and now several years later I am doing much much better. Am I back where I was before taking Paxil. No. But I am at least not in constant agony anymore. My life is still limited greatly by my disease (mainly by anxiety and fatigue at this point) but I am hoping some better medications that I can take will come out during my lifetime. (Currently I am unmedicated). For me I try to do everything I can to take care of myself: stay on a sleep schedule, exercise, eat well, try to get together socially with people if I have any energy left after work. I have been sick with a horrible virus for four weeks, and my ability to exercise etc has been hampered, so now I start to get scared about the depression returning if I can't get physically better enough to get back on my schedule!! Take care!
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