Posted by tygereyes on April 15, 2006, at 14:18:32
In reply to Re: Nardil Euphoria » tygereyes, posted by Crazy Horse on April 15, 2006, at 12:58:07
<< I agree, i don't want to get "high" i want to be able to function as a "normal" person, and this means, yes being depressed sometimes is normal! Some people (i'm not talking about anyone here) think they have to feel good or great all the time..this is not normal and it's simply unrealistic. >>
Exactly ... I wonder if sometimes people who switch meds because they're "not working" switch for this very reason? I wonder if these people will spend the rest of their lives switching meds?
(Granted, I switch meds, too, but for some reason I have been so unlucky when it comes to side effects. Most psychiatric drugs cause nocturnal enuresis - yes, bed-wetting - because I have Interstitial Cystitis and for some reason there is a strange connection between my CNS receptors and my bladder. The only ones that haven't and that have stopped this effect in OTHER meds - though not SSRIs/SSNRIs, they cause it no matter what - are tricyclics, which I can't take b/c I have borderline personality disorder and they worsen my mood lability and anger/irritability to severe degrees and Parnate which, as you know, caused such profound insomnia and acne). Let's hope EMSAM does the trick. If not, I am seriously considering being off meds altogether.
Maybe I just have a different perspective, though, because I have borderline personality disorder with some kind of secondary mood disorder thrown in (they're not sure which). So I have accepted that my moods are going to be unstable and that I will have to manage that, and that there is no pill to take it away or make me euphoric 100% of the time. Unfortunately.
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