Posted by Emme on July 14, 2004, at 8:13:58
In reply to Re: acetylcholine and depression, posted by SLS on July 11, 2004, at 13:05:28
Hi Scott,
Well, my mood is holding in that the depression isn't too bad. I'm still trying aricept. But my energy mojo is going a little wonky. I'm jumping out of my skin. My instict is telling me to drop the SAM-e for the moment and up the anti-anxiety things. It's almost like I've been "toggled" into increased jitteriness. Plus, I'm having er...internal disturbances in the digestive tract. The "Emme state" is so unpredictable.
I seee from your other posts that you're feeling pretty discouraged. It's kind of you to try so hard to be responsive to everyone else even while you feel awful. All I can say is the cliched "hang in there". Even if there's a long-term course to a mood disorder and physiologic brain changes typically associated with it, that doesn't say anything about the state of *your* brain or its fate. It's not a foregone conclusion that you won't be able to ultimately thrive and achieve a good life. I always remind myself of people like Winston Churchilll, Abraham Lincoln, Kay Jamison, etc. If they can do it, there will come a day when you can do it. Okay, that's my very sappy pep talk for today.
Emme
> Maybe you ought not to change things. Perhaps your irritability is actually the beginnings of an antidepressant response. It can happen that way. I don't know. I wouldn't want you to risk your good response to whatever it is that's working right now.
>
> I'll be seeing my doctor next week. I won't know about duloxetine until then.
>
>
> - Scott
poster:Emme
thread:364961
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20040714/msgs/365966.html