Posted by Questionmark on March 25, 2003, at 0:04:56
In reply to Can't decide........., posted by Janejj on March 22, 2003, at 1:06:58
> OK I am not sure if indecisiveness is a disease, but I have a bad case of it, I am a complete flake and it really irritates me and the people around me !
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> Do any of the SSRI's help at all, can anything help ?
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> janejjThat's amazing-- i have TERRIBLE indecisiveness as well. A couple weeks ago i was even thinking of asking on here something like what one can do "for the disease of indecisiveness" or something. Wow that's so weird. Man i love mentally ill people.
But yeah for years i thought it was a component of the severe ADD i think i had/have, but the past year i've realized (as a couple here have mentioned) that it's got a major obsessive-compulsive aspect to it. i think it's closely related to like extreme perfectionism-- like a need for things to be just "right" (at least in your head). But those of you who suffer from this-- this disease of indeciseness-- do you also suffer from extreme slowness? i am SO freaking slow in everything i do. Oh, and procrastination? Yeah i have all these up the wazzoo and i think they're all quite related: chronic procrastination, riDICulously extreme indecisiveness, and severe, life-pervading slowness. AH i can't even type this dam* post without taking forever and trying to choose the perfect words and what not!! i am ridiculous. Anyway, sorry.
But yeah, so, what the **** is good for this **** though? The one person-- you're right about SSRIs-- they're only helpful insomuch as they make you apathetic about EVerything (i believe). Benzodiazepines don't do crap for it; stimulants can temporarily help in some ways but mostly just make it worse. APs-- no way. i do wonder if Nardil would be helpful though. (Oh and all this crap is even harder to deal with when you have all sorts of other mental problems on top of it).
There are two things i do think could be somewhat helpful, though, without any real side effects: inositol, and meditation. i'm trying to get some inositol here and am going to try a high-dose regimen of that for awhile hopefully. i don't know if it'll help or not, but hopefully it will; we'll see. And, well the meditation i'll comment on in a different post cuz , well just because. But so anyway, you might want to give those two things a try.
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