Posted by BarbaraCat on March 24, 2002, at 1:07:53
In reply to depression feelings - sadness vs. emptiness » JohnX2, posted by fachad on March 21, 2002, at 19:53:29
You might want to give SAM-e a try. It helps with the blunting. I liked your insights on this topic, especially your 'novocaine for the brain' theory, and the protective emotional blunting statement.
I wonder what thoughts you'd have about someone (me) who has both kinds - the blunted dreary AND the severe major type - two very different symptomologies, but feeling very tied in to each other (the same illness but opposite poles). I don't have chronic dysphoria and have 6-7 month breaks of OK-ness (if I'm lucky) then 1-3 months of one or the other and sometimes both together of the sad vs. empty types. I've gone through just about every one of the newer AD's and my pdocs have all said that my profile is difficult to pin down.
Regards, Barbara
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