Posted by Meri-Tuuli on July 31, 2006, at 11:56:54
In reply to about life » Karen44, posted by pseudoname on July 31, 2006, at 10:02:47
Hey PN!
That was a great post.
>But there are a lot of successful experiences here.
I like to think I'm a success story (so far anyway, there's always the chance of remission, unfortunately). When I first came here a couple of years ago, it was out of sheer desperation, because I was taking Celexa and had turned into a sleeping, carb munching zombie with no life and no motivation to do anything.
Thankfully, people here educated me about the real side effects of drugs like celexa, and I was able to discontinue and try a few other things. To cut a long and rather boring story sort, I'm doing well now on rhodiola (and some other herbs) and I can honestly say thats its been mostly down to Babble and my own research. Even the fact that I managed to see a pdoc here on the NHS was down to Babble - I didn't realise you had to sort of 'ask' for it, and really push for your GP to refer you to one.
I'm still here, even through I'm well (ish), because I like to keep up to date with my friends and to learn more about the brain.
But I can see how it might appear that we're all fixated trying to find the perfect med. But don't forget that there's a bunch of other boards here too completely unrelated to medications. If you were to jumble all the threads together over the whole site, you would be able to get a more realistic view of the traffic and content of Babble.
Kind regards
Meri
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