Posted by Dan Perkins on December 24, 2004, at 20:31:22
In reply to Re: Hey adopt ME !! :), posted by linkadge on December 24, 2004, at 20:12:38
Wow, that is all very very well said and I agree with all of it.
That "paradigm shift" idea is a good way to put it. My father tried to get my brother and I do go on antidepressants from a young age, and he would always tell us that going on antidepressants was like putting on glasses after having bad vision and going without them your entire life. If it were only that simple.
It is very easy to slip into thinking that all your problems come from depression and that a pill can solve them all. This sort of helpless way of thinking is part of why I think I am worse off now than I was b/f I took my first antidepressant. I have spent years going from one AD to the next trying to find that one perfect drug that will cure all my problems - I have, in a way, stopped taking full responsibility for my happiness.
> It's like I was well, but I was building my self a very tall - very narrow tower of happiness whoose crash almost enevitable.
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> I think part of the reason that they work really well for a while is because when you are first diagnosed with depression, and told that its a chemical imballence in your brain, it starts a whole paradigm shift in your thinking. All of a sudden every problem you had, could have been the result of this problem with your preception. You think that because this problem has now been fixed that you will never suffer again.
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> Its almost a spiritual transformation. "I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see"
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> Later you realize that the emotional anesthetic will wear off and emotional pain will once again hurt.
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> Please note this is my little pessimistic view.
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