Posted by med_empowered on January 4, 2007, at 2:33:31
In reply to Re: Denise Q, posted by med_empowered on January 4, 2007, at 0:15:32
I guess what I'm trying to say is that all is not lost. Think of the saying: where there's life, there's hope. Seriously--dire as your situation may seem right now, you can find your way out of it. I noticed in your last post that you are upset (and rightly so) b/c of your treatment at the hands of a callous shrink who thinks you are "unhappy" but not "depressed". I think the best thing you can do with his opinion is use it to your advantage. So..you're unhappy. This means you don't have a disease. This means that, while meds may help you, you don't necessarily *need* meds to keep going.
I read somewhere once that the point of (good) therapy was to make the client realize that there really wasn't a disease, after all. The idea, I guess, is that you should come to a point where you drop illusions about "diseases" and "disorders" and decide to have a conversation about improving your life. I think in his own way your old psychiatrist did you a favor. Now that you have been yanked out of the "diseased" category, you can have an intense, meaningful, in-depth conversation (with yourself, your friends, family, a therapist, people here at psycho-babble) about how to improve your life.
Good luck.
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