Posted by Dinah on May 4, 2013, at 11:58:17
In reply to What is your magic pill?, posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
I suppose there may be a magic pill for some people. The closest I've found is low dose Risperdal as needed for my anxiety and obsessive thinking.
But the closest I have found for depression was my Sheltie. She was so filled with joy that it escaped, I think, and spilled over to me. I was thinking about it the other day. Before we got her, I remember telling my husband that I needed something to prod me out of bed and to break into the fog of, I suppose, anhedonia that had remained after the worst of my depression had lifted. She died at a very young age, after an illness of more than a year. But somehow the joy she so generously gave sort of lingered. The few short years I had her were a magic pill of sorts. I don't suppose it will last forever. But it's lasted a while.
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