DC_DEEP said:
I'm glad you had some support there, Stronzo. People often don't realize that changes in your blood chemistry can change your personality and perceptions. Neurotransmitter imbalances are not simple or casual. You probably either 1) had no perception of staring at the ceiling, or 2) realized what was going on and thought "this is scary, its' not like me", or felt like you were watching yourself from across the room but were unable to react.
Yes. It was option #2 for me. Thanks DC. I didn't know your history and background with this business - very helpful.
It was a feeling of utterly heightened anxiety (to the point that I was debilitated) and that I was outside looking in.
Good to have that input.
Because of the PTSD diagnosis I had after an extremely traumatic experience in my life it became necessary to find the appropriate meds to balance me off. I had some false starts and my family General Practitioner was certainly not the fellow to be subscribing anti-depressants for me. (I was corrected by my b/f. It was
not the psychopharmacologist in Boston who started me on Zoloft) but rather my regular G.P.
Only after I went in and saw the specialists in Boston was I put on two things that, I'm told, I'll be taking for the rest of my life. Those two drugs and extensive therapy combined to work wonders on what was,
in my case, not depression but classic debilitating anxiety.
I don't suffer from depression. I don't ever actually recall being depressed so I wish I could be of more help to the fellow who started this thread. But if this thread serves to highlight that it's
essential to be properly diagnosed and seen-to then it's served a terrific purpose already.
There were several times along the way when I considered giving up the ship since my anxiety could be paralyzing to the point of nearly a vegetative state. Yet with due perseverance there's good help out there for anyone who has the wish to be better. Never take anyone's adivce but your own as "gospel" when it comes to these medications which are so readily dispensed.
I encourage this thread's author to not leave any stone unturned.
But I'd also encourage anyone suffering clinical depression or anxiety to seek the proper psychological/behavioral help in synchronization with the medications.