Posted by SLS on May 30, 2022, at 8:07:13
In reply to If only there was a formula for feeling well, posted by denise1904 on May 23, 2022, at 11:41:15
Denise:
The best example I know of for why you should consider continuing to live and keep trying is me.
After adding Nardil to my regime over a year ago, I am finally responding to treatment and feel monumentally better.
A depressive state came over me paroxysmally one day in 1976. I fell to the bottom of the abyss within an hour while attending a chemistry class. In fact, I have a photo of me sitting in the same room with the same people. However, my smile indicates that the picture was taken before I became ill.
2021 - 1976 = 45 years
45 years = 16,425 days
That's a lot of days to live in a painful and vegetative altered state of consciousness.
I have begun to use the phrase, "altered state of consciousness" to describe mental illness. Historically, this phrase has been reserved to describe how one experiences the effects of hallucinogens
like LSD or psilocybin. If the consciousness that someone is trapped in while depressed, manic, or psychotic can't be considered altered, then how else shall we characterize them?
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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