Posted by antigua3 on January 28, 2009, at 13:06:12
In reply to Re: Risk of prolonged use of anti-depressives » antigua3, posted by JadeKelly on January 28, 2009, at 12:51:40
OK, I see what you're saying. I've found that medication has helped and hurt my therapy, but it has been necessary. I needed the drugs to blunt my feelings enough so that I could travel down difficult paths, and once I reached some difficult places, the medication helped me handle it better. But, when I'm at the most difficult junctures (and how do I know what those really are; I'm probably full of it, thinking I know these things), I've made greater progress being off the meds and being able to feel.
It's like a juggling act. I need the meds to get there, but I need to be off of them sometimes to go deeper. But I wouldn't have gotten there w/o the meds to relieve the depression that these feelings have caused.
I don't know. I'm probably wrong. It's probably a lot more biological than I want to admit. And I certainly understand you saying that you need to be stabilized before you are strong enough to begin the therapy.
Wishing you the best of luck,
antigua
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