Posted by utopizen on December 7, 2005, at 9:58:06
In reply to Warning for NEWBIES to this board, posted by UgottaHaveHope on December 7, 2005, at 1:18:58
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your imperative introduction to this board. Especially for being so concise.
Yes, newbies, something to emphasize:
1. Life gets better, meds or no meds. The worse it is for you now, the more reason to believe this.
2. You are hear likely because you think a lot about meds.
While often healthy, keep in mind wise words said in a sympathetic tone of disbelief from a psychiatrist:
"You don't need to be your own psychopharmacologist."I wanted to cry right then.
It made too much sense, the kind of obvious sense that makes you want to cry because you have to be told something so obvious by a therapist that you can't believe you couldn't realize all on your own.
Read what Dr. Yalom said made him so happy he cried, a small book I hope many of you are familiar with already:
Letters to a Young Poet, by Rilke.In it, you will find refreshing relief from viewing life.
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And know that I for a few years had great social anxiety, that now is completely gone even without meds.I once danced for the first time in July, with a girl I met that night who was from Barcelona. I told my friends I never danced before.
They thought I had lied once I began twirling with her, and the dance floor was filled with people envious of me from accounts the next day by my friends.
So, my depression has been lifted for some time now.
I have the diagnoses of social anxiety disorder, ADD, depression.
I take Lexapro 30mg,
Aricept 5mg for Executive Dysfunction associated with ADD,
Prilosec for the GI side effects of the Aricept,
Desoxyn 20mg/day for ADD,
Klonopin 1mg Wafers 3x/day (Otherwise, Aricept will make me manic a bit, and Desoxyn makes me agitated/anxious-- this balances it all out)
Evoxac for dry mouth from Aricept and Desoxyn
30mg/3x/day(Careful-- Evoxac I take becaue I already have dry mouth. Most important is to take Flouride rinse every night, too.
Do not take Evoxac for the heck of it. If you have heart problems, it can be a serious drug for you and you should not take it).
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