Posted by beaches09 on February 10, 2009, at 21:33:03
In reply to Re: Please post your MOCLOBEMIDE / Selegiline Experien » beaches09, posted by garnet71 on February 10, 2009, at 20:46:47
Yes that was me. Thank you. Actually, that's what I've been doing is usually focusing on everything positive. I've been doing that for the last 6 years and that's why I never thought I was depressed. I'm just not able to get anything done in life like the way I was before I turned 20 years old. I go out and try to work, try to do the social things I used once to love, etc. And after about usually a months time I run completely out of "mental juice" and I fall on my face and have to retreat to my fortress.
I still have physical energy in great amounts. It's all the mental energy that seems depleted. Like being a computer that doesn't have an operating system installed.
I finally started looking online to figure out what this is and learned about atypical depression possibly with bipolor II tendencies and it completely fits me. I laughed when I read the part that "the person is able to experience positive emotion in relation to a positive life event". Because that's what I've been doing all these years is distracting myself with tons of feel good events. So I just thought I wasn't depressed. I thought depression was just being sad.
Basically what I mean by being successful is just being able to do it period. Without getting completely burned out after a month and having to screw everything and retreat to rebuild my mental energy.
I think my neurotransmitters are just extremely low with probably a slight dominance in serotonin explaining my chipper behavior, with a major lack in dopamine.
I used SSRI's in the past, they were ineffective in low to moderate doses. I liked them very much in high doses. But at the same time it just created another imbalance that caused more problems especially ADD and motivation type problems.
That's why I just think the best general way to go might be an MAOI and go to the source and just corrent the overdrive enzyme problem in the first place and balance ALL the transmitters equally.
My main reason for wanting to give a different combo a try first is because when I get back to life I want to start working out and lifting again and supplementation is key to success in that area and with Parnate I won't be able to do that.
Ok that's a bit of a ramble. So what's going on with you what happened? Are or were you taking a med before?
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