Posted by Existentialist on August 24, 2007, at 22:09:07
In reply to Re: Still no cure for my depression - tried everything » jhj, posted by Phillipa on August 24, 2007, at 19:35:42
Most psych meds I've tried have been pretty gross feeling. When I was 16 (22 now) I had good results with paxil 10mg for 6 months in which I went from being quite depressed and introverted to having had 2 girlfriends, a first for me. It was a strange year where I was someone else on them. I never liked that fact. When I came off it, I was glad to just be myself again. I also used Effexor for a while at 37.5, both times they wanted me on higher doses which would have been intolerable to me. Do you think your doses have been too high?
As far as alternatives if it was the mid 60's you'd be a candicate for LSD psychotherapy as a means to bring about a spiritual and personal catharsis. The literature is filled with instances of people being cured by it. One instance reports a little girl who would only scream and was uncommunative and unresponsive to human contact, but thorugh a serries of sessions recovered.
People also report profound changes on the outlook of their life after MDMA which was used theraputically in the 80's.
And of course medical marijuana. I myself when I was 19 and tried it fo the first time experienced a sense of life and emotional and spiritual awakening, and feelings of joy I had not known possible or felt since I was perhaps a small boy. I've cried with joy from pot and the emotional release it had on me after feeling so dead inside for so long.I believe these choices should be considered before ECT or suicide despite the legal issues involved.
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