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waiting is worth it

Posted by katekite on May 28, 2002, at 16:33:15

In reply to suicidalness and losing hope, posted by adamie on May 28, 2002, at 15:54:38

Hi Adamie,

In your post you said that life was good before this started. And that you like yourself. Just try to concentrate on those things... it will be okay again.

I knew you wanted to try a stimulant and it must have been a big downer to get rejected on that account just recently -- rejection of your ideas never helps depression. When I'm depressed that could send me off the deep end alone, even without relationship things to worry about.

But if you responded to Paxil some before you should again. Sometimes getting a complete response takes two drugs. You can rely on Paxil to at least lift you out of the bottom, then you will cross the next bridge when you come to it to get back to what life was like before.

Hopefully Paxil will at least help you sleep, which I don't think a stimulant would have.... so maybe your doctor has the right idea. You sound like you could really use a good night's sleep.

It was good to experiment with reboxetine, you gave it a shot and it might have worked. Now you know that it doesn't, but it doesn't mean that time was wasted -- you put that time to very good use.

Slowly but surely you are accumulating information about what will work and what won't. Getting worse with reboxetine will make your doc stay away from similar drugs in the future and that will only help you.

Hang in there -- sometimes the first week or so of any ssri can be rough -- but you know it will help some, it will help keep your head above water.

You will get back to the pre-illness self you miss so bad... time hurts at the moment, but you're on the right track now.

It sounds like you've been depressed for a while -- major depression lasts an average of 6 months if no treatment at all is given -- so it might get better soon on its own as well. It getting better on its own, plus the paxil, might mean that you get more better this time with paxil than you did before. You don't know that it won't happen... so maybe it will.

Take care,

kate


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