Posted by yxibow on March 26, 2009, at 19:21:54
In reply to Re: Give up on the seroquel already holy-crap, posted by linkadge on March 26, 2009, at 19:05:02
Well -- I'm sure Jeroen is suffering in ways we can't imagine. It is hard to "get over it". It is unfortunate that the state medicine doesn't pay for or has not seen for some sort of psychological counseling which I think would be invaluable.
The first part of coming to terms with a serious illness is anger, and then there is denial. I know this because I have a pretty serious syndrome which has had impossible to predict iatrogenic consequences.
And so psychological therapy which I also wrestle with it too, has been a large part of a "recovery model"
I understand your feelings -- I too have seen Jeroen go through what might be considered a merry-go-ground of medications that defy what would be considered Western protocols (in a fairly advanced country) for longer trials of medication.
But there is a certain yearning, and I've felt it too to come to have taken most medication combinations, that the next one will work, or why especially has the Seroquel that I take for a different condition fallen short now of what it should.
But I try to bite my tongue... I think a little too much on here about civility to the point of self-censoring everything... but I'll leave that for another discussion on why I feel trapped in what I can say.
I have advised Jeroen numerous times to stick to a particular medication for a longer period of time, that the benefits outweigh the risks, or that that has to be balanced. But below that psychosis which may or may not cloud someone's thought, there is a life there.
Sometimes I just don't say anything because that's better.
Anyhow, that is my extent of talking about someone in the third person.-- Jay
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