Posted by SLS on December 31, 2014, at 14:30:58
In reply to just need to talk *Trigger*, posted by b2chica on December 31, 2014, at 1:52:41
Someone posed two questions to me earlier in this thread.
1. The answer to the first question is obvious, and adequately addressed by Phillipa. I would just add that you have been in psychologically and emotionally bad places before, and have always emerged from them - although not necessarily completely happy. You will emerge from this bad place, too. When you do, you will have a more balanced perspective with which to evaluate your illness and the resources you have to work with to effect change.
2. As to the second question, I won't offer guarantees that you will reach a state of perfect mental health. However, because of your history of tenacity and positive attitude, I think you will find places of contentment. You will be okay because you already are. At this point, I doubt that you have exhausted available treatment alternatives. For instance, I have seen someone who had been depressed and very treatment resistant go on to respond well to a combination of Abilify, Lamictal, and minocycline. It was the addition of minocycline that propelled her to remission. If you have already tried this, I would be quite impressed with your physician. In that case, you might want to explore the two treatments that I am currently exploring: intranasal ketamine and low-dosage naltrexone (LDN). I mention these treatments, not because I am convinced that you will respond to them, but, rather, to demonstrate that there is hope to be found in unexplored treatment strategies. In the meantime, I think you can find balance and contentment in the absence of remission. Perhaps you can take advantage psychotherapies to aid you in this. One way or the other, you'll be okay.
:-)
- ScottSome 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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