Posted by lonelygirl on March 24, 2004, at 13:03:35
In reply to Re: Preoccupied » lonelygirl, posted by Elle2021 on March 24, 2004, at 3:09:26
Yeah, haha, sorry about that. Right after I posted that, I was reading some old posts and I saw yours about deciding to leave and then changing your mind (I think it was a couple of weeks ago). I feel stupid now :) It's ok if you are not in a position to give helpful advice; in case you haven't noticed, I'm not particularly helpful myself. I just get kind of sad when nobody answers my posts at all.
And um, no, I didn't get the papers done. I still have all day and all night, though... I guess I probably shouldn't be HERE, but oh well. The big project that I didn't do was due right in the middle of the time when I went 2 weeks without seeing him. I kept wanting to call him but I didn't know what to say, and I didn't think he would be very happy to hear from me. He called me in the middle of the 2-week period (2 days before the project was due) to ask if I could move my appointment back one day. It was nice to hear his voice, though. He asked me how things were going and I just gave a vague answer (I didn't have time to talk then, anyway, because I was on my way out the door to go to class, but I didn't want to get into it and impose on him when he thought he was just going to make a quick call).
I have been diagnosed with depression. (I mean, hasn't everyone? As soon as you step through the door, "DEPRESSION! DEPRESSION!") I'm not sure how my current psychologist has diagnosed me (though I have sort of made a self-diagnosis of avoidant personality disorder). I think you're right that your method with the meds is not good, but clearly I am not one to talk. It is supposedly not good to quit "cold-turkey" without tapering off (or maybe that's what you do?). I don't really remember exactly when I quit, but I don't remember having any "withdrawal" problems. Do you? Have you ever discussed this with your doctor? It's amazing to me how doctors differ on the subject of meds. Some, like mine, just keep on writing the prescription, year ofter year, while it seems like others want to prescribe only for a short time and then push to get the patient off meds.
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