Posted by confused-in-TN on September 4, 2012, at 7:46:09
In reply to Re: major depression and anxiety has taken hold hard » confused-in-TN, posted by zazenducke on September 4, 2012, at 7:30:23
> I'm so sorry for your loss. That must have been traumatic. I know that antidepressants can convert a single episode of depression into chronic treatment resistant depression while untreated depression has a greater likelihood of resolving itself and not recurring. ( I realize that you are not taking ADs) But I wonder if being so medicated is actually preventing grief from resolving and just suppressing it and making it chronic. To address panic behavioraly you have to feel the panic and experience it subside rather than medicate it into submission. Maybe grief is the same.
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> Of course I would urge you not to take medical advice from anyone on the internet including me!>I have wondered the same thing about meds suppressing grief or at least blunting feelings. Hard to say as I was on meds before all this happened. Never have been good at allowing myself to experience things (like panic, deprression or grief) and riding it out. Scares me to much...ironic in a way huh? Thanks for the "intervention " with Lou. He was wearing on me. And p.s. I don 't think you lost the plot. Have a good day.
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