Posted by Sara T on June 6, 2000, at 22:20:41
In reply to That person hates me and other negative thoughts, posted by Kerry on June 5, 2000, at 20:32:13
> I am bombarded with negative thoughts all day long--still trying to get the medicine right to handle chronic depression and ADD. It starts in the morning as I walk from the parking lot to work...I see someone, say "hello," he/she says "hello" and I think "that person really hates me. That person thinks I'm the biggest loser around.." I'll go out to dinner and can only think of how I don't belong in that environment, how I have no right to be there, etc. It goes on and on. I cannot seem to "replace" these thoughts as is suggested in popular self-help texts...my thoughts may be distorted, but I believe them to be true and can't get them out of my head (I don't hear voices, just my own). Will meds help this??? As I said before, cognitive therapy has not worked for me.
Kerry
You sound alot like me. I can tell you that after years of talk therapy I went on Prozac and Xanax and it was like all that anger, negative thoughts and fog lifted.
That was 3 years aog, but more recently I became depressed and the negative thoughts came back. They were intrusive, and I couldn't stop them. Again my pdoc raised the Prozac level and after a month the thoughts went away. So, yes, I'd say that meds can definitely help, and so can the therapy. But you can't hear the nice things sometimes til you get rid of those intruding, negative thoughts.
Good Luck,
Sara T.
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