Posted by SLS on May 21, 2015, at 22:29:25
In reply to Re: Memantine (Namenda) makes me feel worse., posted by tom2228 on May 21, 2015, at 11:29:36
Hi Tom.
I am grateful for your concern and the time you spent putting together a thoughtful post. From your perspactive, I would certainly question my self-described biological illness and its refractoriness to drug treatment. I know it is frustrating for people to see me complain about the same thing all the time. It's pretty damned frustrating for me, too. I have never been bashful about looking towards psychotherapies as modalities for self improvement. However, they have not proved to be of any help in ameliorating my depression. I'm not looking for happiness in a pill. I'm looking for the resolution of the mental illness that is more numbing than it is depressing. I do experience dysphoria, but anergia, cognitive and memory impairments, and the loss of interest and motivation predominate. I have the sort of illness that allows one to experience happiness despite being "depressed" at the same time. I wish that I could find resolution of whatever it is that I suffer from by having conversations with people in a psychotherapeutic milieu - talk therapy. I would love to have that kind of control.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
poster:SLS
thread:1079066
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20150520/msgs/1079142.html