Posted by Deneb on March 23, 2012, at 20:08:48
In reply to What counts is what you want, posted by Twinleaf on March 23, 2012, at 10:44:47
> Deneb, the first part of my post, about prazosin, was directed at Scott.
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> There is an almost complete absence of wishes and goals for your life in your posts. It seems as though other people - your pdoc and several posters, would love to see you have a full life, with important other people in it, and fulfilling work and activities. But you don't express any of the same wishes.
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> If you go back and look at your posts from several years ago, you had very strong and definite goals for both your work and your social life. What has happened? That is such a loss for you. Rather than just accept everything your pdoc tells you, why not become informed about possible downsides to SSRIs for you now, as well as the possibilities for other medications and for therapy, and have a truly adult discussion about all of them. No doctor is right 100% of the time; that is why she needs your informed input. If you don't give it, she has to end up treating you like a child.
>Well I told my pdoc once that I wanted to drink caffeinated drinks despite the risks, but she just won't accept that. OK, she accepted it for a while, but then she saying I shouldn't drink caffeine drinks again. I'm not sure what I can do to convince her that caffeine is OK for me.
With the SSRI's, she agrees with the goal of eventually coming off them, but she said she wanted me to discontinue one at a time. I guess it's taking me off the Celexa first and then the Prozac. I guess she's being cautious. Going off more than one at a time complicates things I guess.
I think her goal is to have me be off all meds. I don't think she wants to start any with me.
I've never had strong goals for my social life. I did have high goals for my career, but then I discovered that I'm below average in being able to learn things quickly so I kind of just gave up on anything hard career wise.
I used to learn things quickly, but I think I'm going to be one of those people who get demented as they grow older because I'm getting slower.
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