Posted by yxibow on November 10, 2006, at 15:10:14
In reply to Coping with out a stimulant....., posted by Rjlockhart on November 9, 2006, at 19:44:25
> First thing i wanted to say was its "hell". Well in my case.
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> I try try new coping skills, learn to develop new ones and stimulante my own brain, but its hard. Wellbutrin did help....when i was on it a couple years ago.....but not as significant as a psychostimulant.
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> First thing i have got to know is that i have to stop thinking about how it would help, and how to adapt to the situation.
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> I am taking other medication Prozac, Xanax, Zyprexa, and Restoril, but they dont really help with life coping skills, and i have got to get out of my mind that a stimulant would help.You don't have to get out of your mind that something could help. If its prescribed to you and you're not getting meth off the streets, there's a big difference.
> I really dont want to explain why....but my mom is crazy about me not taking any stimulant. She went NUTS when she found out i went to my doctor and was prescribed Dextrostat, she screamed yelled, said im CALLING YOUR DOCTOR! mostly because she has a past of stimulant abuse, 70's you know the diet pill era...
I can't comment on all this but I draw a parallel with myself (you've got some more years left on me) that from all what you've described from your Mom, it (and this is only my feelings from the descriptions) seems like she is turning you into an adult child.Its much different for me because I have positive support and private meetings but I am a little older than you and the psychodynamics of my family relation is that I am the adult child -- not by choice or force but by a miserable disorder and the variation of will to overcome something completely foreign to what I have experienced before in my life.
I hope that, and I don't know, but it seems like your meetings and your doctors decision should be yours and his and not your mother. Yes, there were diet drugs in the 70s -- one brings to mind ironically, Tenuate (diethylproprion), which is a cousin of Wellbutrin (buproprion), but there are sometimes need for stimulants in a portion of the population. Not everyone for sure, but a slice of the pie. If you did well on them, why should you go through hell? If you really don't think they're good for you and your doctor agrees with you then that's also fine too. But this psychodynamic family relation, we on here have heard it many times and I think it might be helpful to either a) exclude your mother from your sessions or b) have a true family session. Anyhow thats my 2c, but the three of you have to figure out something rational.
> All i can say is this time is miserable.
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> But i will make through...
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> i just need to vent here more.
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> MattVenting is fine... that's what we're here for, as long as there's no name calling. :)
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