Posted by Alexanderfromdenmark on August 3, 2009, at 18:22:59
In reply to Re: Sorry to be dramatic but considering suicude » Alexanderfromdenmark, posted by SLS on August 3, 2009, at 17:45:50
> > I'm sorry to be dramatic, but I am, as many have here as probably considered or attemped, suicide.
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> It is good that you are acknowledging your state of mind and reaching out. I hope you can come away from this realizing that, despite previous failures, there is hope for a successful treatment. Usually, these emotional crises pass if you just hang in there and don't act on impulse.
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> > I have the dreaded "PSSD" syndrome
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> Is that anything like the deficit syndrome? What does PSSD stand for?
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> Even had you not treated your condition, its natural course is usually one of progressive worsening. I can't speak to the potential for SSRIs to make one worse. This has not been my experience, and I haven't researched it. It sounds feasible, though. These are very powerful drugs that do produce major changes in the way the brain operates.
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> It seems to me that the right treatment will feel as if it has swept up the mess created by previous drug exposures. That is how it feels to me, anyway.
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> I would not lose hope despite your feeling hopeless and helpless. Those are powerful feelings, and there isn't much that I can do to help them dissipate. Time will do that. However, things might be easier if you know that you are not alone in your predicament, and that, logically, there are alternative treatments yet to explore.
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> - ScottHi Scott, PSSD stands for post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction for which there is no known cure. It isn't so much the sexual ´dysfunction(though that sucks in what's supposed to be and was a man sexual prime time of life) but the cognitive impairment(apathy, anhedonia, insensitivity, lack of alertness, inattentivness, lethargy etc etc) related to it most like caused to some degree by low dopamine, but not only most likely. I don't feel like experimentiing with any more psycmeds as it was never my intention and still isn't to become a lab rat and do the AD merry go around.
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