Posted by madwand on September 10, 2003, at 14:09:06
In reply to Re: Recovery and prescription meds » hog80ci, posted by Arrianna on September 10, 2003, at 12:44:16
I am another one of those (11 years sobriety this last August). When I first got sober I had a "sense" that I would benefit from ADs but got touted off of it onto Other Approaches by the somewhat-negative outlike that recovery had on them.
Some of those Other Approaches took me in interesting directions and I thank a Higher Power for them (as they were part of my path). However, one thing I finally realized that there was another factor keeping me away from the AD route -- ego. I definitely "took" to the spiritual aspects of the program and they really helped (still do!), but there was this notion that if I accepted further help from ADs then everyone would ascribe my spritual progress to the meds!
Ah yes -- good old pride and ego! They can really sneak up on you (at least on me). And I now realize that asking a Higher Power for help does not preclude that that help can come in the form of medication! I have lost count of the time that I have told the "eskimo" story to people (or the similar story of the old man in the flood), and here I was falling into the same trap!
Of course, I am seeing this from 20/20 hindsight. It took a non-depression diagnosis (which is still up in the air -- a migraine-like thing) to get me on Lexapro. I guess HP knew that I needed to be there and that I was not quite ready to make the leap past pride.
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