Guest guest Posted August 5, 2001 Report Share Posted August 5, 2001 Hi Peg, Thanks for your advice. Perhaps you are right. I'm still inclined to battle it out on my own - part of my celtic character that says such things are (for myself) a sign of defeat and weakness. That mentality is not something that's easy to unlearn. I think that for me " chemically masking " these feelings wouldn't work. I just don't know. I'll think about it. As for weight gain, as I said to athan I just seem to be getting fatter and fatter while eating less and less - so I certainly wouldn't appreciate that side effect. As for the sex ........ no problem ...... I've been alone so long I wouldn't know what to do anyway, anymore !! Hope you're having a good weekend. DutchPat uc66 psc(??)01 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:50:12 -0700 Subject: Pat-antidepressants , I don't think you should be reluctant to go the antidepressant route, if you are on the right one you don't go into nana land you just feel level and it sure beats feeling sad all the time. Course I find I have a real hard time crying and somethings crying is good. Had a good cry yesterday and it made me feel so much better but all the time isn't good. If you do start them and they make you feel weird or anything then you are not on the right one. They all react differently on everyone. They do come with some side effects though and you have to weight the importance. For me the sides effects are more tolerable than jumping down every ones throat and crying at everything or being so bitchy I can't stand myself or having so much anxiety that I feel like I'm having a heart attack. The trade off is sweating, lack of interest in sex (don't know how much of that is the meds) and weight gain. Peg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 6, 2001 Report Share Posted August 6, 2001 Pat, you may want to look into the benefits of SAMe not only for the liver but for your nerves....it is a natural antidepressant and very safe (no side effects), I do believe that anybody with a manic depressive diagnosis should NOT take it............I watched a show last year about some folks who spent years on prozac and different anti-depressants who were very happy with the results of SAMe..................... Patti >From: " P Alfeld " >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: Pat-antidepressants >Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:50:12 -0700 > >, >I don't think you should be reluctant to go the antidepressant route, if you >are on the right one you don't go into nana land you just feel level and it >sure beats feeling sad all the time. Course I find I have a real hard time >crying and somethings crying is good. Had a good cry yesterday and it made >me feel so much better but all the time isn't good. > >If you do start them and they make you feel weird or anything then you are >not on the right one. They all react differently on everyone. They do come >with some side effects though and you have to weight the importance. For me >the sides effects are more tolerable than jumping down every ones throat and >crying at everything or being so bitchy I can't stand myself or having so >much anxiety that I feel like I'm having a heart attack. The trade off is >sweating, lack of interest in sex (don't know how much of that is the meds) >and weight gain. >Peg > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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