Posted by rayww on February 18, 2003, at 0:01:34
In reply to Re: Psychotic errors can be reversed » rayww, posted by JohnV on February 17, 2003, at 7:28:57
>, survival mode, exile mode, I call it, or >also "write off days" as I also called them.
I'll have to remember that.
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I'm too much of a fixit person, and always think I can handle it on my own, if only I change this or that behavior. Medications did help, but the problem doesn't ever go away.> Are you still on the TrueHope program? Do you take any medications? I did quite well one year on a prescribed vitamin and suppliment program. Things where going good in my life at the time, though, so I think that helped make things well.
> The effects where just as good as from any medication, but it took me a long time to build it up and find the right balance. I have been on Effexor for so long, and it has helped, that I wouldn't dare stop it after all my other experiments. And yes, I opperate in the same way, working according to my mood/mode and having a hard time with long-term goals.
>I went off truehope a couple of weeks ago, and wouldn't you know it, I got a cold. I have been around colds and flu all winter, and haven't had a problem, so maybe the nutrients do more than work on moods. My nails are stronger too, which leads me to believe I was deficient in something before.
I went back on truehope a couple of days ago, but still feel out of it.> If you become too uncomfortable with the mental direction you are going in right now, have you considered either good therapy or further medication trials? Having swallowed most psych pills in existence, I'd be more than glad to offer any of my perspective matched with your symtoms. It may not amount to much, but there always is a chance.
>Tht's offly knd of u. In a couple of weeks, after the cold and the back ache are gone maybe.
> I have found that the times I can 'move on' in life are ones when I have both put my past in proper perspective, can laugh at myself, forgiven some others, and have a small task to accomplish. ANything too big is out of the question.
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that alone is pretty big. I can't complain to a doctor because from the outside looking in I have an enviable life and the risk seems too high.It would take too much effort to figure it out. You know, how to find the right person, make the appointment, actually show up, and once there to know the words. I wouldn't know how to do that. Figuring things out is something very personal to me. So far I've been able to survive on personal progress. I have my own (peculiar) ideas about how things should work I guess.
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