Posted by bassman on April 22, 2006, at 7:48:14 [reposted on April 23, 2006, at 0:35:23 | original URL]
In reply to Re: The Myth of neurosis » vale, posted by madeline on April 22, 2006, at 5:54:24
Exactly. When I pinched a nerve in my back, the docs were falling over themselves to give me meds for pain relief-somehow physical pain seems more "real"-and they all mentioned that it is not good to be in severe pain and be macho about it. Turns out Vicodin, et.al. were pretty useless in terms of pain relief, so I just iced my back until I probably froze my spinal column! :>} The funny thing is that the emotional support group I'm in always has a member or two that has decided just the idea of taking meds is so repugnant to them that they are going to taper off. It isn't that they are having side effects, they just don't want to take the meds. Guess what happens, every time so far? The person ends up absolutely miserable and takes 2-3 months to get out the depression again. So the idea that people love to take their meds is a little less than universal, in my experience.
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