Posted by KarenB on June 13, 2000, at 4:19:10
In reply to Fire prevention, posted by PeterC on June 13, 2000, at 0:09:56
Dear Carol Ann,
To answer your question (that IS how this thread started out isn't it?), with my limited knowledge, I would suggest you do some internet research on L-Tyrosine, Phenylalanine and GABA.
There are books in health food stores giving suggested dosage, etc. Remember, if you are going to try these things that you must give a fair trial as you would any other med - people have a tendency to take herbal remedies more sporadically, probably because they don't take them as seriously, and as a result never do find out if they actually WORK.
Moving on to topic #2...I am the one(mentioned by "claire 7"), who suggested that someone in the throes of detoxing from Heroin may want to start talking to God. Heroin was not my drug of choice but what I suggested to this individual certainly worked for me when I needed it...and has continued to work for the past 18 years. Not many can say that about their AD, I would venture to say. I was not, and am not, trying to force an issue - just sharing personal experience that changed my life. Anyone interested may e-mail me and I'd love to talk BUT...I will not defend my stand any further in this arena. To me, it's like arguing whether the sky is blue. If it makes someone (or a group of single bodied personas) "gag," then so be it.
I must tell you, BoBB-claire-PeterC-etc., I am not sure whether you were defending the right to an individual's opinion OR restraining your own inalienable right to gag yourself. Hard to tell. You (collectively) use a brand of sarcasm of which I am unfamilar and often find wordy and hard to follow. My shortcoming, most likely, so don't take this as an attack. I do think this is an interesting forum, however, in which to so strongly force your opinions, that you may hurt others who are here to find some refuge and seek "education and support," as it states at the top of the page. I have pondered what your real motives may be but have come up with...well, not much. Maybe (all of) you can enlighten me.
I must agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion regarding these depression - brain - chemical THEORIES...HYPOTHESIS...WHATEVER. Nobody really knows. I feel like 50 years from now, modern Psychopharmacology may be seen in the same light as "magic elixers" sold by traveling salesmen at the turn of the century. I would hope not but does anyone really KNOW anything when it comes to this stuff?
The truth is, we are mostly just trying to get "well," aren't we? I don't know about you. And not all of us buy into the materialistic be-happy mandate of our western culture. Some of us aren't just looking for "happy" - "sane" would be sufficient. Don't go lumping us all together, BoBBs. You don't know where we've been any more than we know about you.
It's very, very late. Hope this was coherent. Hope I don't get too badly burned by it, as well. It's dangerous around here lately and I do find that sad.
Wishing you all the best - sincerely.
Karen
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