Posted by Roo on September 3, 2002, at 9:14:56
In reply to Re: Getting WELL! To old-timers... JonW, posted by mars on September 3, 2002, at 1:18:59
Thank you so much mary! I am definitely going to
check out all your links you sent. After 8 years on
meds (with suspicions that they have, within the last 2 years
or so) started to make me _worse_...I've been tapering down
and checking out alternative stuff. I'm just in my first
couple of months of doing this, and it has been a rough road,
to be sure. But just this past week, I have started feeling
a little better. I started acupuncture (have only done it twice
now) and I notice a difference a day or so after I do it, then
it fades...But I'm hoping that the more I do it, the more it will
have a more cumulative effect. We'll see. I'm also interested in homeopathy
and anything else alternative that people have had success with in
treating depression. Doing a sort of DBT therapy, and also learned to
meditate in the past year and that has helped with my fear and doom and gloom
thoughts a lot. So I'm learning how to accept those thoughts as "just thoughts"
without necessarily BELIEVING them...but I'm still not so good at "building myself up"
with positive thoughts. My acupuncturist suggested it last week and I was surprised at
myself with how resistant I was to it. That in itself was interesting to me.
I think the bulk of my trauma was formed in those really important formative years
(between ages 1 and 3 I had a lot of severe neglect and trauma)...and I'm hoping
that no permanant brain damage was done (who knows? I certainly can't afford an MRI)...but
the more I read, the more they say that the brains of people who had trauma at an early
age, their brains are different than those who didn't. But I just have to believe there
are ways other than AD's to treat this trauma and resulting mood/depressive stuff...I'm not
antidrug either, by any means, but there's a lot we don't know about the long term effects,
and I'll never be satisfied trading in my sexuality for mental health....I've already done it
for the past 8 years of my life, and I don't want to do it anymore. Anyway, I've gotten way
off track, my point is just to thank you for sharing your story...it gives me so much hope...
I'll also have to look into the 5 element type of acupuncture you're getting...I'm getting the TCM...Thank you so much!
poster:Roo
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