Posted by PC_Load_Letter on September 23, 2009, at 21:54:36
In reply to Re: What do you do when you lose all hope » Maxime, posted by pedr on September 23, 2009, at 20:37:03
> > Plan for now is to get through this holiday and then come home and kill myself. I can't think of anything else. It's keeping me awake at night.
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> Hi Maxime,
> I don't know your situation so I did a very quick trawl of some of your recent posts and it looks as though you are in hell after coming off cymbalta and are waiting so that you can start Parnate?
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> I had a similar experience recently when I came off Luvox and Abilify. I could not stop thinking of suicide for long periods and felt inhumanly bad. I very much wanted to be dead, every day.
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> However I somehow made it through and started Nardil, which (touch wood) has helped a lot and I pray and pray and pray that it continues to do so. So why not try and focus on the Parnate? It might work, just as Nardil has worked for me. I never believed it would but it has. That could happen for you too.
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> Tell your pdoc the state you are in. Tell him that you are staying awake, thinking of suicide, he may be able to help prescribe something to help you sleep. You will just feel more depressed if you are sleep-deprived.
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> Try and stay strong, thinking of you,
> Pete
If you have not already tried this, consider asking your doctor about starting lithium right away to get you through the washout period, and please don't make any final decisions until you've tried this or another bridge strategy.
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