Posted by linkadge on June 14, 2005, at 21:31:02 [reposted on June 14, 2005, at 22:17:37 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Exercise for severe depression » gromit, posted by Chairman_MAO on June 14, 2005, at 20:11:26
I too think they can do a lot, but I have my reserves about them. I have reserves about what they are really doing for your state. There's no doubt that they can bring subjective relief. But sometimes depression is just an outward manifestation of real problems. Ie, just because morphine releives pain, doesn't mean we should just keep popping morphine and keep our hand on the burner.
I think they can be lot of fluff. I think they can distract us from the truth about ourselves and our situation.
I think that depression has a lot more to do with our state that we want to admit.
I remember reading an article about a girl who was in university who was severely depressed. She tried absoluetley every treatment including multiple series of shock therapy.
After a few counselling sessions she was asked if she wanted to be in university or not. She responded that she did not want to be there and she hated it.
She left university and became a daycare worker. Since this she has not had a problem with depression, nor needed treatment in any form.
That story hit home *extremely* hard. I'd say the majority of people on AD's these days are people working 8 hours in a cubacle. That is a darned depressing situation.
I also think that the mind needs to find ways to incorperate medication into its life. I mean my mind would like me to believe that I was "ALWAYS" a basket case before depression, but that was not true. I remember the worst situations in picture form, and when I feel guilty or depressed about taking medication, I reasure myself by remembering these images.
The memory is state dependant. When you are well, you feel things have always been this way and always will. When things are bad you believe they are alwyas this way.
But honestly, what scared me the most about my situation were those times, that even when medicated to the brim, I would lapse back into that exact same person that I thought was eliminated by the medications.
I think to myself, all those horrable images and horrable times were simply related to low serotonin, and therefore they will never be again.
But, I threw out that theory a long time ago when I realized that even this new modified self, underneith all the layers, was still that same person.
Like I said before. We ****DESPARATELY**** want something to attribute all of our failures and all of our horrable feelings on. It is the only way we can get on with our lives.
Haven't you notices how when some new drug seems to work, your brain all of a sudden jumps into this mode where it concocts some crazy theory about how all the problems you have ever had was because of a defiency of a certain drug.
But, were all here for some reason, aren't we. We all keep coming back to this site. For some reason.
Its just like my mother. Even though sinequan put her into the hospital from mania psychosis etc, she would never dream of thinking that the drug was anything less than mana from heaven.
We all need our rabits feet.
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