Posted by headachequeen on January 26, 2004, at 16:11:45
In reply to Re: topomax » Karen_kay, posted by PoohBear on January 26, 2004, at 12:34:19
> Karen_Kay:
She said that she DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE A PILL TO BE 'HAPPY'!!! A NURSE!!! I told her it had nothing to do with 'happiness' and everything to do with stabilizing her emotions which at the moment are all over the map...
Oh this rings a bell....
when I was really down and out with the depression I apparently did not have according to the psychiatrist from hell, I was trying to understand the whole thing and said to my doctor that I had no reason to be unhappy and he said much the same as you that depression has nothing to do with happiness or sorrow and that I had to learn to look at my feelings differently...
then when I was admitted to hospital by the original psychiatrist, a colleague was highly amused that I found it necessary to go to hospital because 'life was not making me feel happy these days'
Apparently if SHE went to the doctor, let alone to hospital every time she felt a little blue or unhappy she would be there every other day and it was time I grew up and stopped behaving like a spoiled child. Everyone else had to face reality and I did too, she told me and reality is that there are going to be times when I will be unhappy because not everything is going to go my way...
and there simply is not a pill that will make life better so live with it.
Her husband by the way, is a doctor....
I have often wondered if he is any more informed and aware than his wife.
Kat
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