Posted by SLS on December 23, 2010, at 4:43:03
In reply to *Not* Thinking in terms of meds, posted by linkadge on December 17, 2010, at 18:19:43
> Does anybody here find themselves continually thinking about all of their problems in terms of medications?
I find myself continually thinking about the way depression pervades my existence - not medications. Every conscious experience is tainted or muted by depression, so it is difficult not to focus all of one's energies on searching for a cure. I don't think focus equates to obsession.
Where I think you are correct is in describing a scenario in which someone becomes obsessed with self-medicating and evaluating the results minute-by-minute instead of week by week. It is a nasty ride. However, never-ending pain and desperation can lead people to behave in ways that had not been characteristic of them in the past.
For at least some people, all that is needed to facilitate the recovery process from MDD or BD is a single pill. The effects of depression are profound. They can make someone feel dead inside. Equally profound in magnitude are the effects of successful antidepressant treatment. One becomes alive inside. It is an awakening. The resolution of depression leaves available to one their full potential to deal with issues and even live happily ever after.
I experienced a complete remission of my depressive disorder for nine months as the consequence of taking a combination of two pills. I might have been well for the last two decades had my doctor not elected to discontinue treatment. It is hard not to notice when a world of black-and-white becomes a magnificent kaleidoscope of color. However, to make sense out of so much color when one knows only black-and-white can take quite a bit of work, but this process is far easier than continually trying to survive and function while living in the altered state of consciousness that is depression.
Maybe the most successful treatment for MDD and BD will come from a biological intervention other than administering drugs.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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