Posted by francesco on February 2, 2004, at 12:38:35
In reply to Re: newbie on lithium ... please help, posted by Chairman_MAO on February 2, 2004, at 12:12:36
> I read a column once in which a psychiatrist said that the most coherent explanation that he could think of as to why so many antidepressants--and ECT--with so many different mechanisms of action all seem to have approximately the same success rate is that taking an antidepressant is like fixing an off-color television set by smacking it with one's hand.
lol
I think it's far from being false. On my fisrt days of lithium I made a lot of stupid conversation with people, talking about my personal problems, in a very non communicative way ... like I was drunk, worse that I was drunk.
Today I called a girl that I wanted to date and I talked her about the drugs I had taked, inturrepting her when she wanted to say something, and other things like these ... One of the reason why I make very short trial of drugs is that I wanna understand how drugs affect me because in the long term this is impossibile, you simply forget how you were before. I feel like I'm just drugging my self to obtain some goals.
Once you're in the drug circle, and even if you quit them, the first thing that come into your mind is finding a new drug because the other drugs 'failed'. I'm just 28 and I'm beginning to have the sensation the meds had ruined my life. A typical depression's sensation, so, should I add an antidepressant to my lithium regime ? ;-)
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