Posted by obsidian on July 15, 2009, at 22:45:01
In reply to Re: Do I seem like someone who needs a pdoc??, posted by yellowbird01 on July 13, 2009, at 19:46:40
> I ask myself the same question often. I think that having been on the medication-go-round (and mental health system) for so long can make it hard to trust yourself. I'm afraid that if I went off my meds, I'd crash - why? Maybe because I truly need the meds... but maybe because my brain is just so scared to be without them, scared of what might happen, that it'd be almost like a reverse placebo effect. I fear that I'd cognitively dig myself into a hole pretty quickly, and depression can be caused (in my opinion) as easily by problematic ways of thinking (CBT stuff) as by chemical imbalance. Of course theyre intertwined, but hopefully you get my point. I'm not sure if it really means anything or relates to your question in any way, but that's just my thoughts on it. It's so hard to know.
yes, I relate very much to what you are saying. It is so hard to know. I just don't feel like I have the strength at the moment to try. I hope that I do have the strength at some point. These meds do have side effects after all. It's been like 10 years now!! on some kind of psychotropic medication. Funny though, I probably could have used them most when I was a child and a teen.
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