Re: My Anniversary & Question

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You know I have to chime in here. I was on two different

anti-depressants where I gained a lot of weight. I finally found one

that actually keeps my eating at bay (unless of course the evil carb

monster wants to play.) I had gotten off of it for about 6 months and

definitely noticed the difference. The reason I take anti-depressants is

to be more normal. It is NOT normal to eat until you gain more weight.

I had WLS to stop the weight gain. Why would I take an anti-depressant

that only caused me to gain the weight back.

Lori Owen - Denton, Texas

SRVG 7/16/01

Dr. Ritter/Dr. Bryce

479/335/???

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:46:01 -0500 " Jacque Holdaway "

writes:

> <<The you need to change drugs. Depression is an incomprehensible

> evil,

> that

> must be dealt with.

>

> Fay Bayuk>>

>

> I have to echo this. And, I have to tell you what my very wise old

> psychiatrist told me when he first started me on meds many years

> ago.

> Anti-depressants should not make you feel elated. They should not

> make you

> tired or sleepy. They should not do ANYTHING but take away the

> depression

> and that feeling of impending doom, and make you fully functional as

> a human

> being, with all your talents and flaws intact. Other than that, you

> should

> not even feel like you are on any medication. You should feel

> normal

> emotions. Happy when something warrants your happiness, sad when

> there is

> something that should make you sad, anxious when there is a real

> reason to

> be anxious. There should be no unseen monsters under the bed, in the

> closet,

> or around the next corner. Not every anti-depressant or dosage will

> do that

> for every person. WE have to work together to find out which one,

> and how

> much, works best for YOU. I took 6 or 7 different ones, at

> different

> dosages, before we found what helped me.

> When I DON'T take them, when I think everything is okay, that I can

> handle

> things, and I don't need them anymore, disaster strikes. I do stupid

> things

> that are self-destructive. Once I wound up in a psych ward for

> attempting

> suicide, and once in jail for DUI. ly, at the time, I didn't

> care about

> either, because I didn't care about myself, and I didn't believe

> that it

> mattered to anyone else either. And, BTW, just a gentle

> reminder...alcohol

> is a severe depressant, and if you have any form of depression, it

> can be

> deadly, and often is.

>

> Jac

> Life is not a spectator sport

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