tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post1150715023252485953..comments2024-03-05T00:35:33.495+01:00Comments on Different Thoughts: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?Marianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-23237518450191072642008-10-08T21:19:00.000+02:002008-10-08T21:19:00.000+02:00Hi - I just discovered your blog - am reading it t...Hi - I just discovered your blog - am reading it through from back to front. What a breath of fresh air! Thanks - you write eloquently on exactly the area I find myself most suspicious of.<BR/><BR/>Since I've been being 'treated' I've got worse. While I often had very bad spells before, I'd recover. Now I'm crap all the time.<BR/><BR/>I'm looking forward to reading more<BR/><BR/>atb DavidDavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250441382312532991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-81656576644990146902008-02-12T02:04:00.000+01:002008-02-12T02:04:00.000+01:00Hi Jack,have you tried alternative approaches? 101...Hi Jack,<BR/><BR/>have you tried alternative approaches? 101 things, you could do. I think, it's all about finding out what works for you. Which can be difficult enough in itself. <BR/><BR/>I felt an irresistible urge to talk to someone, share my experience, so I chose talk-therapy. Without drugs, since I didn't feel any urge to take any of them. Bang-on. <BR/><BR/>Trust your intuition, and don't lose hope!<BR/><BR/>MarianMarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502332727845937105.post-16528674475329354832008-02-12T01:24:00.000+01:002008-02-12T01:24:00.000+01:00I have had this conversation with good friends mor...I have had this conversation with good friends more than once, albiet without the medical lit.<BR/><BR/>This topic is fascinating to me. When I first began treatment with meds, my goal was to eventually reach a point where I no longer needed them to survive... But that is not what I have experienced.<BR/><BR/>My dosages continue to go up--and I continue to be manic-depressive.<BR/><BR/>My friends suggest this is a disease like any other like diabetes--take you medicine and your chemistry will be moderated by he drug--you'll reach each a stable end.<BR/><BR/>But the brain isn't like the pancreas is it? I don't know that my organs are conscious--although I rather like the idea...<BR/><BR/>Psychiatry, as they say, is an art--not a science. And if there were a cure--would I want it? Would I still be me if I took the magic pill (other than the other magic pills I already take)? <BR/><BR/>I do hope for mental peace--and I sometimes wonder why it eludes me--and what caused it. <BR/><BR/>I do. <BR/><BR/>My best--Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com