Posted by LostBoyinNCReturns on March 25, 2012, at 13:50:57
In reply to Re: This just in: psychiatry sucks, posted by TiredofChemicals on March 24, 2012, at 20:28:05
That has been my experience, overall. So you have to take matters into your own hands. A really good place to start is with a consultation with a good pulmonary based sleep specialist and a sleep study. If you have even mild sleep apnea or something like RLS or PLMD, and then take meds on top without treating the apnea with CPAP, it is like building a house without a sturdy foundation built first underneath.
Same analogy goes with ANY endocrinology problem you might have, thyroid, type II diabetes, low testosterone.
Same analogy goes for anemia, iron deficiency (even mild deficiency), vitamin D deficiency (very common, scientists believe most Westerners are vitamin D deficient), B-12 deficiency.
If you have any of this stuff, your response to meds is most likely to be lackluster.
Finally, if your life situation just plain sucks, if your environment just is absolutely awful, if you have severe financial problems, vocational problems, relationship or family problems, then yeah you are probably gonna be basically an unhappy person no matter what you do. So you gotta change your environment for a positive one while hitting it hard with every biological treatment there is that you should be getting. And the odds are your shrink will ONLY focus on the psych aspects and will ignore or even resentful of any physical problems that cause mood problems, like CPAP for sleep apnea.
Eric
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