Posted by okydoky on June 10, 2008, at 13:04:49
In reply to Re: Change Your Mind, Change Your Brain-Dr. Amen, posted by bulldog2 on June 10, 2008, at 12:14:30
I did not write the entire exchange. Mostlyhe wrote a lot more. He knows I spent many years not on medication trying different things. One year with a homeopath suggested by him. Two years with a Naturopath also suggested by him. One year in a psch hospital on no medication. Several doctors who didnt believe in allopathic medication. None of it worked.
Here is most of my response:"It is incredible that my family still makes me suicidal. I cannot continue to be the fault of my illness. It is simply not so. I have strived in every way my entire life to overcome, to live. Sometimes more successful than others. When one has a broken leg one is passive while it heals. After one has to actively participate in the rebuilding. It is the same with the brain. Just as I cannot will my diseased bladder to heal itself so I cannot will my diseased brain to either. I cannot understand why those that would know me and my experience seemingly would not be the ones to have some depth of understanding of it. While others who have no direct experience with depression themselves or in their family seem to grasp it's rape of life, "to be active in ones own life" one has to have a life.."
"I have many examples but I am afraid they fall on deaf ears. I am so worked up an hurt I cannot even begin to write with any eloquence about it all. Where is one to find motivation within when one cannot learn from failure nor gain pleasure from success. What is there to motivate?"
oky
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