Posted by beardedlady on March 16, 2002, at 5:56:32
In reply to meds make me feel dependent » beardedlady, posted by xjs7 on March 15, 2002, at 19:58:58
xjs7:
I was 36 before I took my first "brain" pill! So that notion of "I've been strong for all these years" is certainly one that I've been nursing. Fortunately, most of my family has been able to say, "Now you have a child." When three loved ones die in the same year your greatest loved one is born, I think that fear of death becomes even MORE pronounced than it would had you simply given birth and lost no one. I can't say all my nighttime anxiety is a fear of not waking up--or that any of it is. I just know that I am a different person now.
I, too, beat myself up for being "weak." Yet I don't call it that when other people I know need medications to get their "selves" back.
beardy : )>
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