Posted by S. Howard on October 30, 2000, at 19:29:14
In reply to Re: Social anxiety and Paxil » S. Howard, posted by Ted on October 27, 2000, at 14:18:24
Hi Ted
I guess you could say I was manic - I mean, that I have manic symptoms - during the first two or three nights of my sleepless cycle. Then I became too exhausted to do anything productive although I still couldn't sleep. After the big crash, I would crawl home from work and fall into bed and sleep as much as possible, or sit around in a near-coma and do nothing. I wasn't depressed so much as horribly lethargic. I didn't care how I looked and the house went to hell (which doesn't take long with kids and pets). Then I would "snap out of it" and before long, I was on my knees rubbing wax into the floor ala Martha Stewart, or staying up until nearly dawn to work on a painting (I am, or I was, a part-time artist. Unfortunately, this medication seems to have killed every last creative urge. I have read Kay Redfield Jamison's excellent book, "Touched With Fire", but while it substantiates a link between bipolar disorder and the artist, and that medication will often affect creativity, it presents the same problem as paxil and sexual dysfunction - mainly, you must choose between one and the other. If anyone has more info on this problem, PLEASE let me know.)I have a regular job in the medical profession. Someone on the board complained a few days ago that it was wrong of medical personnel to refer to a patient as "the gallbladder in room 2" and she is correct to be offended, although it is a common mistake in a busy hospital area and not intended to be offensive. However, I never thought of it as insulting to say, "Mrs. Harris is diabetic" instead of saying "Mrs. Harris has diabetes." It seems a little like splitting hairs but okay, your comment was duly noted. -SGH
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