Posted by okydoky on June 8, 2008, at 9:27:07
In reply to Re: Medications and choices » okydoky, posted by Zyprexa on June 8, 2008, at 0:20:57
What do you agree with?
For some reason when I pasted the post neither the quotes nor the font change appeared. The following is what my brother said:The hopeful thing is that new experiences and thinking and even changes in food...is awash in change possibilities as well. Breathe different and feel different.
As a doctor, I see a lot of depressed people. What I observe is that most people, depressed or not, are passive in their lives... but accepting and learning along the way.
So as a naturopathic doctor, I find this is maybe my most important treatment modality...to teach active participation in life. It truly makes a difference. And I'm sure I have said enough.I had bolded Though this is the place to start because I referred to after a medication started working as my starting place That was when I needed to become an active participant in my own life
I had written and left out:
All he has said and explained to me is simply what life is. Not depression. He has explained where I am or would be now if something changed and allowed me to have a starting place to live and heal the damage that the depression had caused.
Life is about change, hope being VITAL, failing, succeeding. When medication worked for me that was my starting place to learn new skills, learn from both failure and success. For some medication might not be the starting point. But my observations tell me that for most with trd this is the only option.
A lot of people think their lives should be only full of positive experience. There should not be failure, or very limited. I think in this country especially people dont grasp that the experience of living constitutes the entire spectrum of life. Success, failure, depression, sadness, happiness, contentment... What he is describing to me is the very definition of life, not of overcoming depression.
When I was doing Social work my director was stunned and dismayed at the percentage of depressives who went off their medication when it was working or helping them. He asked me why this happened. My observation was that the people we were working with had been depressed and because of it disabled for years. When they begin to feel better mentally they are forced emotionally to face many different losses. The loss of work, financial stability, social status, possible lack of education, family sometimes, friends, possible disruption of emotional maturity For many who had learned to accept to some degree what their lives had become it was overwhelming to face these losses and even more so to attempt to overcome them. It was much less stressful to go off the medication and back to their comfort zone. My boss, who had a son with schizophrenia, who I met doing advocacy work for the mentally ill, was yet another example of how those closest to us, our family, sometimes have no depth of understanding even though they have lived through much of our illnesses with us.I guess I need a social worker myself.So she/he would be the one listenign to ll this!
oky
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