Posted by bleauberry on July 25, 2010, at 20:25:37
In reply to Re: toxic crap » linkadge, posted by SLS on July 25, 2010, at 4:49:19
I feel strongly in my bones, my soul, and my spirit, that what you say here is wrong. You are not treatment resistant. Drugs almost for sure didn't do you any favors, but they didn't make you treatment resistant.
The problem is, the right stuff hasn't been tried. The only things tried fill up the very limited briefcase of psychiatric meds. That, to me, is a good start, but only a start. The time spent at the starting line has been exaggerated long past its time. Time to look beyond the psych toolbox. What else causes depression besides serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, glutamate, issues? Forget those neurotransmitters. Forget about manipulating them. If that was going to work, it would have already. The writing is on the wall plain to see. Instead focus on what is getting in their way, what is screwing with their function. clogging them, corrupting them. It's something else.
All I know for sure is that when you try the right supplement, plant, or medicine that targets the real problem, you will quickly be saying you can't remember how long it's been since you felt this good. It is not likely, in my opinion, to come from the psychiatric toolbox. Something in there might be helpful, but that's about it.
What about ssri+ritalin? ssri+ritalin+tca?
I don't think lamictal is doing you any favors. It did not prevent return of depression longer than 9 months in clinical trials. Mood stabilizers by definition are going to blunt emotions.
I only say these things because of my own experiences. Like you and everyone else here, I had been fighting depression for 15 years on all kinds of meds and combos. Still ended up in the hospital and ECT. Still depressed, very treatment resistant. So imagine my total surprise when I felt alive and 30 years younger, like before depression ever hit, while on doxycycline. I didn't even know why at the time. Same thing on DMSA. I knew about the metals, but I had not a clue how cleaning some of them out would just open up a lot of clogged receptors and you could practically feel it happening.
It aint just me. There are a whole bunch out there just like me. They just don't know it. Or they don't believe it. Or they want proof before doing anything. As if they had any proof of anything else they've done thus far. Or instead of picking some starting point they say forget it. Or they got tested 10 years ago and nothing was found, as if tests are somehow gods that never miss a thing. And so they stay sick and wonder why.
> > The medical community? Are you certain that what they've done to you is Kosher?
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> What they have done to me through the well-intentioned misapplication of drugs is to very likely produce permanent treatment resistance. This is a reality that I must deal with every day. Somehow, I do. It may not be logical, but it seems to be rather human.
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