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Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on November 30, 2008, at 12:05:29
I've felt in the past that you believed I was criticizing you when I wrote to you, or that you didn't think I had any understanding of what you were trying to express. I just want you to know one thing: I do care. I try very hard to express that, and apparently I'm not very successful.
Here are a few points that have come to my mind in reading your posts:
1. I believe that working with a good therapist would be beneficial for you. A good therapist would offer a place to express all this pain, and look at ways to process it so that you wouldn't hurt so badly all the time -- and it sounds as though you do hurt badly all the time. It doesn't sound as though you've found that "good therapist" yet. Can you tell us the theoretical orientation of this therapist? It doesn't sound as though this one is either CBT or psychodynamic, although you haven't said much about him/her. Where are you getting counseling: church, school, through your psychiatrist's office?
Remember: you can fire a therapist and find another. The purpose of therapy is to help *you,* and if this one isn't, there's another out there who will.
2. I believe that some of your behavior contributes to your unhappiness. Jogging late at night and then getting on the computer doesn't sound as though it would be conducive to a healthy sleep pattern, and sleep patterns contribute to mood disorders. It might be worth examining areas in which your behavioral choices work against you.
3. Are you still in school? I think you've said you're working now, and living with a family member? Do you find that you have adequate structure to your life? That can be very helpful in combating mood disorders.
I truly wish I could help you. I sincerely wish you the very best luck.
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Hello..... advice is good need wisdom, but if, i dont listen than...there no use. That's on my side. But always, i've gone a direction some people have, well "how to live your life", no i want to live life the way i want, "yes, have a functional life, no going to hard liqour (which actually is better than Xanax!)
You see, i cannot sometimes express the I feel...and i just stay quiet, while i'm accused of something. Now i have defend what.....i take Dexedrine, yes in the past, defiently abused it: and still really the reason was, now if anyreads this and thinks diffrent, this is really what went on. My doctor has me on 45mg Spansules (3 Capsules) ok......the last session I had with him, he told me take 1 at 9am 1 at 12 pm 1 at 3pm.
But, do you see its not helping with getting my mind envolved, because....first thing, i stay in this angry idleness because i feel i cant do anything, primarily because, my mother is/was a control freak, i mean CONTROL PATROL. Never let me have fun.....toxic sometimes being around her. You ever heard the term "i smell one big rat in this room, and it really reeks"
My doctor will not change, my dosage, he is so strict on just going up, but let me...he put me on medications that where like putting battery acid in the brain "Insane in the Brain"
oh darn....i didnt realize the time...i gotta run.
crap.......i have to church, i'm already late!!!get back with on this later, sorry i'm horrible with time.
rj
Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on December 1, 2008, at 12:56:47
In reply to Response - racer .. rj, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on November 30, 2008, at 12:05:29
Remember: you can fire a therapist and find another. The purpose of therapy is to help *you,* and if this one isn't, there's another out there who will.
2. I believe that some of your behavior contributes to your unhappiness. Jogging late at night and then getting on the computer doesn't sound as though it would be conducive to a healthy sleep pattern, and sleep patterns contribute to mood disorders. It might be worth examining areas in which your behavioral choices work against you.
3. Are you still in school? I think you've said you're working now, and living with a family member? Do you find that you have adequate structure to your life? That can be very helpful in combating mood disorders.
I truly wish I could help you. I sincerely wish you the very best luck.
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This is some i need to discuss with....my someone exept my therpist. I usally work, days things must be done, fast, quick, and accurate. And, he...i understand he has a very low-peaceful life, but i dont think he understands what i tell him. I respect him, i dont argue, i just....need another therpist.
And still yes, i am at home, things are better, but i'm getting out, its almost 2009...that's why i really have been unhapp/miserable in my mind about aspect of life.
Prozac 80mg.....is alot, that's i think the highest dose recommended for severe depression. Well, Prozac does not really lift my mood, it just "flats" out somethings.....plus Dexedrine which, i dont understand why my psychiatrist, put's me on 3 spansules but do give the correct dose....
1 15mg Spanule is basically 7.5mg of d-amphetamine is immidiate taken, then after 7.5mg is slowy released.And....the dose needs to be matienced....but in itself, he's not treating correct, for "sustanied attention"
This morning, i took 3 spansules, which is 45mg(in spansule form, not tablet) so it releases half of 45mg....which is 22.5mg. That's the only way, i can really funtion, improved at work with just keeping on task...
But, with all this, i have such a negative feeling in my head, which i can't really describe how i feel.
I had brain scan....there was tumor in the back part of the brain through the CAT scan (when i was in a car wreck, they just tested to see if i fractured my skull or something) they found that.
Now....that really can contribe. But also, what i want to know, can amphetamine cause a stroke? and damgage parts of the brain like a "communication" "personality", just in general?
2005, i was fine, my speech was fine, but in 2007....i started to get bad speech problems.
So, to get really to the bottem line, i just stayed idle for a long time, and this is a result...of doing that. More stress, and more negative feelings. I have to act like i'm someone else because my mood is so horrible, go off the Prozac, and request in distress for a Electric Shock Treatment. Now....what benefits are there to the EST, i know there is some with memory because i read the FDA "memory impairment was included at times with EST"
That' it.
wish me luck....
rj
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