[Jewelry making - Article 00928] - Re: [Orchid] I sometimes wonder why I'm doing this

[Noel Yovovich]

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>     The best anti-depressant is work and its byproducts. Skip the pills
>     - the only people who benefit from them are the people who get rich
>     making them and foisting them on the rest of us. The pills don't
>     work anyway. 

    I feel compelled to respond to this... 

    The pills *can* work, though I council caution about them just the
    same. I took them for years, and they enabled me to feel better and
    to function at a very difficult time in my life. But you cannot just
    take them forever. It is necessary to be in therapy, get a lot of
    exercise (the closest thing there is to a panacea), and have a plan
    as to how long is safe to continue on meds. My doctors failed me in
    the last part, and I eventually began having horrendous side
    effects, including a major tremor (some may remember my posting
    questions about tremor a couple of years ago). Doctors still didn't
    connect that to the meds-- they wanted to medicate that as well. 

    It was damned difficult to get off the meds was taking. Fortunately,
    I found a psycho-pharmacologist (benefit of living in a world-class
    city) who figured out how to help me do it, and I succeeded. No more
    tremor or other side-effects, managable levels of depression and
    anxiety (exercise!)-- though my liver is still suffering. 

    So bottom line-- I believe meds can rescue you, give you time to get
    things under control, get other mechanisms in place to support you
    in their stead, but they are not safe to rely on long term. They're
    a little like one of those wierd little spare tires cars come with
    now. They may get you out of a bad situation, but you can't just
    forget about them. This is NOT a medical opinion, only my own
    anecdotal experience. YMMV :>) 

Noel
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