Posted by badhaircut on May 10, 2005, at 0:20:55
In reply to Re: Dryden, Ellis, ACT, posted by pedrito on May 9, 2005, at 21:40:46
> What about you? You seem someone au fait with the various therapies
Eh, I've tried the main ones but only for 20 years, off and on. Nothing has ever worked. (Today I got 47 on Dr Bob's depression meter: a war zone score but my happiest yet.)
Psychoanalysis was the most fun — and most expensive, most years-consuming, and ultimately most destructive. I wouldn't recommend it. There was a thing Sunday in the NYT Book Review about how Freud has ruined fiction, too.
Shock treatment, many many many many meds, exercise, self-help, light boxes, CBT, prayer, support groups.... none of these was the ticket for me. But before I start sounding like Marvin the robot (if it's not too late), I'll add that though I'm less hopeful of a cure I'm more hopeful of a *life* than I have been in a long time. Maybe ever.
Very interesting about Dryden. He sounds a lot like Ellis.
Good luck with the meds. I hope you'll be one of the successes! If so, please post about it! :)
-bhc
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