Posted by yxibow on June 14, 2006, at 23:57:04
In reply to Can I just be sad?, posted by heaven help me on June 12, 2006, at 22:38:04
> Can I jsut say that today I am sad? My daughter left for a 2 month mission trip and I miss her so much. I still feel like my Geodon/Lamictal is a good combo for me, and I have sustained a very mild hypomanic stae for some time which has been great, but today, I am just sad. I think it's just circumstantial. But if I am comin' down, is this what it would look like? And what else should I be watching/prepared for? Do the meds balance the down ride too? Just sad.
> blessings
> maryHaving real emotions is a normal part of life. If we medicated ourselves away we would be, well, emotionless. And that is what happens to me somewhat with Seroquel because all neuroleptics to some degree blunt emotion. So my reactions to things can be delayed. Or I may have to purposely listen to sad music to even bring out a crying spell to release some emotions.
In fact, while my medications are a necessary evil to prevent me from experiencing a worsening of a problem so far only partially covered, not cut, psychotherapy may be able to delve into the emotions better if we could cut the medications. Unfortunately I wouldn't be feeling terribly good. Its a catch-22 and occurs also with SSRIs blunting emotion as well.
Not everything is a pathology. We, with our various ilnesses have a tendency to microanalyze that some emotion might be due to a transmitter imbalance when a few bad hours in a day might just be, a typical human swing, which can last many hours and then return when we resolve our internal conflicts. Now if one were feeling things like this days on end, then its a different story, but not a true emotion like that.
-- feel betterJay
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