Posted by MissThang on February 14, 2013, at 17:45:14 [reposted on February 15, 2013, at 10:44:28 | original URL]
In reply to Re: My depression: Cured, posted by TiredofChemicals on February 14, 2013, at 16:20:33
I'm glad you found it inspiring, Tired. I used to find it so depressing to log on here day after day and see only people who continually struggled with these issues and to never see someone who beat this thing.
When I would read about people who did the alternative things and got better, I figured they were somehow different from me or more puritanical and were willing to give up enjoying food and having drinks sometimes and all that kind of thing. That's not the case at all.
I'm a meat eating former smoker and even drug abuser and before I stopped taking them, I was on 6 meds at once (half of them to counteract the side effects of the other meds). I thought people into alternative healing were just plain weird, frankly and I'm never going to be anything close to a vegan or give up chocolate or stop shaving my legs or whatever stereotypical image it is that some may have in their head when it comes to alternative health. Jessica Alba is big time into alternative remedies and she looks pretty normal (and quite beautiful) to me.
The general eating plan I (mostly) follow is the one laid out in The Perfect Health Diet because it's pretty flexible and doesn't expect you to give up whole food groups or anything. But even so, if I go to a ballgame, I eat the junk they serve there and as long as I don't do it all the time, I think that's fine.
I guess the other misconception I had about people pursuing alternative remedies is that they still felt pretty crappy but were just morally opposed to taking drugs and figured it was worth the trade off. Not me. I'll be the first to tell you that if I hadn't started feeling better when I did (and continued to improve) I would have been happy to take just about any drug that came down the pike to avoid having to feel so awful...but I couldn't find one, which turned out to be a great blessing...it just didn't seem to be one at the time.
Anyway -- I wish everyone luck and would be happy to help if I can.
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