Posted by Rayray on November 25, 2004, at 21:21:13
In reply to Were You Depressed in the 80s?, posted by cubbybear on November 25, 2004, at 2:23:07
Good question! I was treated for depression on an outpatient basis at a world-renowned psych clinic. Meds were not offered for my agitated depression at all -- just talk therapy. That seemed to be the treatment fashion at that time -- a far cry from having participated in a Valium study at the same institution ten years earlier (1971-2)!
Since I worked in the non-psych part of the hospital, I managed to get hold of Valium on my own and that helped. My shrink hit the roof when I mentioned it and told me to get off it. Learning from this experience and not wishing to be left "defenseless", I thought better of mentioning how I was able to compensate for this loss with alcohol. But that's another story.
By the time I got sober some ten years later, thank God I got a good pdoc and the SSRIs had been developed! Recently, I've tried Cymbalta with very mixed results, mostly irritability (not good in a corporate environment). I may abandon it and go back to Zoloft.
Ray
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