Posted by jaye on July 10, 2003, at 18:38:06
In reply to Re: Lamictal » jaye, posted by Barbara Cat on July 10, 2003, at 12:27:36
Barbara, hi.
you helped me out when I first came to this board : )
I guess by "coping" I don't really mean "coping", rather, sitting out the storm without thinking it's the end of the world, and no, I can't always do that!But if I use a drug when things get bad (I do know what you're referring to about things getting Very Iffy), then how can I learn to go through the pain? If I cannot learn to "cope" with pain, then a drug will always become the answer,and, unless somehow that drug makes me smarter and better able to cope next time the shit hits, I will be forever crippled unless I have that medication to make me whole.
In DUNE when they do the "little black box" test on the guy's hand.. (he thinks he is being tortured, but it's really just an illusion)?Could it possibly be that when we are being tortured by our own minds we are inside that black box? Our whole brain can't be full of damaged wiring... If we can get outside the box...any state of mind is possible. Somehow we seem to get attached to the negative and horrible. Damn sticky stuff.
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