Re: This is the Truth » huxley

Posted by SLS on May 17, 2012, at 6:13:30

In reply to Re: This is the Truth, posted by huxley on May 17, 2012, at 5:04:38

Hi again, Huxley.
> > > "i went in to treat my "mild depression" and now 7 years later i am almost completely dysfunctional."
> > This is an exercise in logic:
> >
> > How were you able to discount the possibility that the natural course of your illness progressed over the course of 7 years? 7 years is more than enough time for depression to worsen from mild to severe. It took less than 7 years for me to have this happen - and this occurred before I ever took a psychotropic drug.
> That wasn't me scott, I was quoting someone else from this thread but I did have a similar experience.
Oops. Sorry.

> I can tell because when I stopped taking my drugs I got better.
I believe you.
> Not suggesting this would happen for everyone but it makes you wonder.
Yes, it does. What symptoms / illness were you initially attempting to treat? Was the mild depression diagnosed as being Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or dysthymia?
> I was indeed being made mentally ill by medications.
In what ways was this mental illness different from your initial presentation?
> How do you know that your drugs have not added to/caused further illness?
Good question.
:-)
I don't.
As a matter of fact, I am sure that my exposure to antidepressants and older antipsychotics has made me more resistant to responding to these drugs. I have acknowledged this for over 20 years. The only things is, I was in pain, episodically suicidal, and couldn't function without some sort of medical intervention. New drugs weren't coming out fast enough to think about waiting for them while in a drug-free state. This would have been ideal. I felt that I had no better choice than to pursue further antidepressant treatment. What I don't know is whether or not drugs increased the severity of my depression. This sometimes happens on its own as time passes.
I am genuinely happy - and believing - that you are doing better without psychiatric medication.

- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

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