Posted by cubbybear on November 28, 2004, at 3:45:03
In reply to Re: Were You Depressed in the 80s?, posted by KaraS on November 27, 2004, at 17:09:34
> I got a book that explained some basic things about antidepressants (mostly TCAs at the time) and another book about panic attacks and agoraphobia.
> I shudder to think what life must have been like for people with depression and anxiety problems in all of the prior centuries before any of these medications were discovered.
Yours is an incredible story--just the type of experience I was wondering about when I started this thread. Do you happen to recall the title/author of the book you mentioned? I recall that a former high school friend recommended a book called "Feeling Good" that was an extremely good and practical self-help book on the role of negative thinking in depression. It also was quite encouraging and interesting on the subject of antidepressants.
As for your wondering what people did about depression in the centuries before medications, I automatically think of the painter Vincent Van Gogh who wrote tormented letters to his brother, cut off his own ear and then finally shot himself.
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