Thinking out loud....
It's been all of two years or so trying to find an anti depressant that suits me. I've tried Citalopram/Mirtazapine/Sertraline/Venlafaxine/Diazepam and the dreaded Duloxetine
All of these drugs brought their own problems to me and it was not always problems with heightened anxiety and depression, there was the constant shits and weight loss and inability to pee
the list of problems goes on and on...I would start a course of meds and shortly afterwards it was apparent that they were not for me but I would continue to take them under doctors orders as these meds sometimes take many months to work,right?
So, after taking a new drug for 12 or 16 weeks ( always with Diazepam as a buffer) I would have to face the unpleasant prolonged task of WITHDRAW and then move on to the next drug. Sometimes I would be withdrawing two at a time (DUL/Diazepam) So, dear reader I am now drug free and hope to keep it that way, but all these nerve shredding medical experiments have took their toll on me, I am not yet my old self
Sometimes I feel as though the corner has been turned but I am afraid to believe it since I have had many,many disappointments in the past when I thought I was out of the woods....I'm afraid to believe I'm OK in case it goes tits up on me, that's so messed up I think
I have been so passive for two years and not displayed some of the different emotions and behaviour like anger or assertiveness....it's almost like I need to relearn how to tell folk to piss off...know what I mean? Although a rebirth is perhaps some way off I can definitely feel it and see it now when for years, I had no idea where the old me went. A new attitude is required and the belief in oneself that it is safe and will work and it's OK to be happy and stress free. Maybe some folk here will understand this and perhaps they won't IDK
God, my dear wife who has helped me through this ordeal with hardly an ill word to me. I have to learn not to focus of the negatives and guilt feelings like this any more and move on and perhaps see things in a different light with the passing of time.
One thing I believe to be helpful in situations like this is to be easy on self and go with the flow, but if I am honest, this was something I never managed,it's not how I am built....ach well
Thinking out loud session over for the day
John
xx