Posted by linkadge on December 19, 2010, at 18:20:54
In reply to Re: *Not* Thinking in terms of meds » linkadge, posted by SLS on December 19, 2010, at 8:29:27
>How can anyone ignore the hope of ending the >pain through using drugs? So, yes, the endless >experience of pain and frustration produces an >endless craving for relief. Excruciating pain >often yields desperation and thus a constant >search for a cure.
Because most of us just sit around, googling this medication or that medication, feeding into this pathetic loop of desire, trial, faiure, repeat.
The brain is more capable of adapting if you put it in the right situations. Some of us here spend so much time establishing to ourselves and others just how "sick" we are. It seems like part of "us" doesn't exist anymore. When we sit here and put all of our hope in the next medication, we don't really work much at building the brain circuits that really work on beliving in ourselves again.
There is something to be said for just "doing things". Instead of waiting for a drug to give use the "motivation" to get up and do something interesting, why not just doing it, whether or not we think we will enjoy it? We have babbied ourselves.
The other day, I was walking down the street, moping to myself about how darn depressed I was, how I had no hedonic function, how nothing ever seemed interesting anymore and bla bla bla bla.
To make a long story short, I slipped on the snowey edge of a massive hill, slid down, cracked though the edge of the ice, and was up to my waste in freezing cold water. Fighting for my life in the swift current, I managed to grab hold of a nearby bush and pull myself to safety. The freezing water through my cloths forced me to sprint faster than I thought possible up the ravine and back down the road (1.5km) to safety. I nocked on the door of a nearby house and a friendly individual took me in and helped me warm up and get back home.
The event scarred the hell out of me, but guess what? I "snapped" out of my "clinical treatment resistant depression" for the time being.
Instead of me sitting around moping about how dumb and pathetic I am, I was thrown into a situation which forced me to be witty without bothering to think.
Depression creates a preception of incapacity that we only feed by spending ours on boards like this. Drug companys and psychiatrists spend their lives establishing this disease. Why not just start believing in ourselves once again?
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