Posted by Anna Laura on July 29, 2001, at 6:11:07
A pdoc told me weeks ago that i didn't have many chances to recover fully since i got a partial response with TCA. I lost hope since then. I feel like i'm doomed to be a failure, i feel such a looser. I'm a college dropout, i thought i could still go back to college, finish my studies if i found the right med. My dreams are vanishing now: i'm afraid i'll never be able to cope again. I suffer from long lasting dhysthmyia and from bouts of major depression which are stress related. My depression went untreated for more then two years: i should have being given AD, i was given benzos at high doses that made my depression worse year by year. I eventually found a pdoc who gave me the right diagnosis : i was prescribred for TCA (imipramine); i slowly improved, and i eventually recovered from the major depression episode, still i had dysthymia ever since, which grew worse through the years, i guess because it went untreated. My former pdoc thought i didn't need any meds so he made me quit with the TCA i was taking (imipramine) when i recovered from the major episode. (1995).
I had a second bout of major depression last winter: took Tofranil and it helped. I tried Prozac, Zoloft, and Amytryptiline with scarce results (they helped with the bigger symptoms but i still had dysthymia). I'm currently switching to effexor.
Don't know where to turn anymore.
Don't want to live such an unproductive, meangless life.
poster:Anna Laura
thread:72328
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