Re: Acceptance Of Meds Gives Me Happiness

Posted by SLS on June 16, 2010, at 6:11:58

In reply to Acceptance Of Meds Gives Me Happiness, posted by bulldog2 on June 14, 2010, at 16:32:18

> I want to make this a pro med thread. All the people who accept their conditions as being biological and are grateful that there are happy pills please respond.
I accepted my illness fairly early. I was an ultra-rapid cycler with a period of 11 days. It was absolute and undeviating. I read a book called "Moodswing" by Ronald Fieve. His descriptions and examples of people who had the illness left little doubt in my mind that I had a biological mental illness. My only hurdle to complete acceptance of drug treatment lied in my desire to be able to treat the illness psychologically. I was willing to do whatever psychotherapeutic work necessary. I wanted the way that I thought and felt to be within my control. I did not want to be tethered to a drug in order to live a happy and functional life.
I was first diagnosed and treated by a research team at Columbia Presbyterian / New York Psychiatric Institute. It did not take me long to realize just how seriously ill I was and how sure the doctors were in their characterization of my illness as being a true medical condition. The first drug I took was imipramine. If there was any doubt in my mind that my condition was biological, it vanished when I began to respond to that drug. It was as if a whole new world of technicolor appeared before my eyes. I later went on to respond to a combination of medication and achieved remission for the better part of a year. It was truly a wonderful gift. Unfortunately, my doctor mismanaged my treatment by discontinuing drug therapy. Within two months, I relapsed and was left unresponsive to further treatment with those same drugs. Still, I appreciate that these drugs are indeed true miracles for which I am very grateful. Unfortunately, they don't work for everyone. However, it is still early in their development. They were first discovered just 50 years ago. Considering that man first started working with tools over 100,000 years ago, biological psychiatry is still in its infancy.

- Scott
The measure of achievement lies not in how high the mountain,
but in how hard the climb.
The measure of success lies only in how high one feels he must
climb to get there.

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