Posted by SLS on September 1, 2011, at 12:18:26
In reply to Re: 40% » SLS, posted by Dinah on September 1, 2011, at 8:12:45
> I think I've grown to appreciate the incremental approach to wellness. Taking little bites out of a problem from various angles. 40% is something to be pleased with.
The degree of relative wellness I have attained is nice to experience. I do not take it for granted. However, it would be nice to have covered a 40% gain in 12 weeks rather than 12 months. I accept it, though, as any stable improvement is in itself a miracle. I simply would rather that my rate of recovery be somewhere other than at the pole of a bell curve.
> And it gives you a base from which to try other things that might be helpful that might not have been helpful without that 40%.
I hadn't thought of it that way.
My doctor tends to think that things should be happening faster, and has thought to continue to try new treatments. I elected to leave well enough alone. It is serendipitous that I should have discovered the length of time necessary for me to respond to treatment. I had resigned myself to taking the same four drugs and settling for a lifetime of severe depression. After four months of an unchanged depression, I suddenly began to improve. This was towards the end of November, 2010. I then added lithium two months later based upon its theoretical mechanisms of action. It almost immediately reduced the oscillations in mood that I was experiencing.
> Specifically, what would you like to be better?Motivation, energy, cognition, and memory.
> Can you break down which elements have gotten maybe more than 40% better, and which perhaps less?Not really. I feel that everything improves at the same time at the same magnitude.
Thanks, Dinah. I appreciate your insightful questions and perspectives.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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