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Re: ECT sounding pretty good » linkadge

Posted by blueberry on May 19, 2006, at 18:00:40

In reply to Re: ECT sounding pretty good, posted by linkadge on May 19, 2006, at 16:51:31

HI linkadge, you are kind and thoughtful as always. I appreciate your thoughts and response.

I understand what you are saying about consolidating, and that is actually what I recently did for 10 weeks. I kept deteriorating during that consolidating period. I am in too bad of shape now to not take action.

I agree with you about the TCAs. As sensitive as I am to meds, probably the only one I could remotely tolerate would be nortriptyline. But would it also send me to the pits of hell? Don't know. It seems like any reuptake inhibitor does.

The reason I take things for too short of a time is because they make me profoundly worse, more than words can describe. If I took something and it gave me side effects, fine, I can handle that. But on a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being the worst, if I am at a 7 and something I take shoots me to a 10, forget it. I at least need to stay at a 7.

We'll see. You and the other responders here have given me enough hope to at least get through an evening. I thank you for that.

> I would not recomend ECT. Have you ever been on a TCA? TCA's are great for what we used to call "agitated depresson", before all this bipolar spectrum nonsence came into the picture.
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> I think you really need to just consolodate for a while. I mean, what I think may be hurting you the most, is taking a little bit of everything, but for too short a period to really stabilize.
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> SSRI's didn't go over with me too well the second time around, but its not the end of the world. The TCA's helped, so did exercise.
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