Posted by LostBoyinNC43 on December 25, 2012, at 12:36:04 [reposted on December 26, 2012, at 10:23:11 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Lunacy. » LostBoyinNC43, posted by SLS on December 25, 2012, at 6:42:30
SLS,
While I see a psychiatrist and take psychiatric medication, I have to say this. I really cannot relate anymore to those on this or other mental illness support message boards. There was a long period after I developed mental illness in my late twenties, from the late nineties up until 2006 or so, where I could relate to them and did indeed post on usenet a lot back then. And once in a while here, but it would not last lont because the moderators would boot me really fast.
After I was put on CPAP equipment in 2007, I began feeling better overall. The "depression," the anxiety, everything began getting better. Not perfect, but much much better.
Now I find that if I go without the CPAP gear for even one night of sleep, I feel similar or identical to what I used to feel like in "the old days." Before CPAP. The same sort of agitated, angry, irritable "depression" comes back in spades."
As soon as I go back to CPAP, I feel better and the angry, irritable, agitated "depression" goes away. So, my point is, I stay on CPAP 100% of the time.
Since CPAP, I have found I really, can no longer relate strongly to posters here and at similar boards. And I do not understand why such individuals go from one drug to another for years, when it is obvious the drugs dont work for them. Yet these same folks do not seem to want to explore other areas of treatment. ECT, sleep medicine, endocrine stuff. And many seem content to be chronic mental illness patients.
I dont understand that.
At the same time, because of my past experiences, I do feel it is important to advocate for the severely mentally ill. Hence my petition I created.
All of this being said, rambling and like a broken record sounding, I wish you well and wish others here well. But I really cant relate to you anymore.
Merry Christmas,
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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