Posted by galkeepinon on August 21, 2003, at 1:06:16
In reply to Re: Anyone switched to Lexapro? « ggrrl Doug » galkeepinon, posted by Doug in PA on August 18, 2003, at 19:26:55
I felt the exact same way you feel about the nodding of the heads all the time with therapy. I stopped it in March 2002. I've been ok without it, but I'm sure going back may not hurt. Oh yeah I would hope a therapist would have experienced depression first hand-not because I would wish this monster on a person-but simply because they could relate and know what doesn't work and what does, I guess. I have been having a hard time getting back into doing schoolwork and my deadlines are coming up so I know what you mean about the RR track thing. It's like a job-I can't just say-well, I'm not going to work today, well......I could say that but I gotta make a living somehow!!!!
Take care:-)
> Hi,
> I am on 10 mg of Lex. I tried therapy for about 5 years total. The last one was about 18 months ago. The more I went to therapy one-on-one the more i felt frustrated by the "nodding" heads of all the different Phd's. There is always that blank stare that shouts that they dont care about anything except that you dont run over your time limit. It is so impersonal. While I dont realisticly expect them to cry for me, I would hope that they have experienced Depression first hand and not just in a book. An inexperienced therapist can not truly understand from a book, just how paralising deep depression is. You are laying on the RR tracks, you see the train coming but you just cant move your ass and get up. I am tired of hearing "you can learn to live with it." I cant... but I do live with it only one day at a time.
> Doug in PA
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> > Hi Doug, I get this way too on the Lexapro-what dosage are you on? I call it moodiness with me anyway. On top of that, I'm a cancer.
> > I can really relate to what you are saying-hope you feel better. Are you in therapy? Does anything seem to help you feel like you want to feel?
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> > > I am at the 2 month mark with Lex. There are days when I think that things are improving, then I get a day when everything goes wrong and my mood goes down the tubes. I call it reactive depression. When things go wrong in my technical job and I can't figure out a problem, my depression reacts to it and seems to come back. Self confidence goes out the window and I punish myself with negative thoughts, doubting that I was ever intelligent in my whole life. But then, on days when nothing goes wrong, things seem Okay.
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