From: squiggle@sympatico.ca   
      
   LS wrote:   
   > Squiggles wrote:   
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   >   
   >>I'm trying to tell you that drugs can save your life   
   >   
   >   
   > Haha, that's a good one.  I had my best/most serious suicide attempt   
   > while psycho-medicated to the gills.  Wrong drug combo, obviously.   
   >   
   >   
   >>and that due to a drug company screw up, not only did   
   >>i confirm my true diagnosis, but the right dose saved   
   >>my life.   
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   >   
   > I'm glad that you found something that worked for you, but psych meds   
   > are NOT proven to work for everyone.   
      
      
   I don't believe you're all that glad I found something that   
   "worked" for me - that's pretty glib.  It did not "work" for me   
   - rather it took me out of a hell that only suicide could have   
   relieved me from.  And i had to struggle with the dose and wait   
   for it to work before taking action in that direction.   
      
      
     They even say it in those   
   > horrible, depressing zoloft (?) commercials with the bouncing smiling   
   > circle/pill looking thing.  Like others here, I've tried all sorts (not   
   > that you asked).   I've tried the gamut of anti-depressants and   
   > anti-anxiety meds among other things.   
      
   Well, you have to keep trying - it's not easy to find the right   
   drugs because they don't really know what they're doing.  IMHO,   
   they should  be using heroin but it's illegal.  And in my experience,   
   anti-depressants (unlike anti-psychotics) make you very gittery and   
   nervous, so they should benzos in that soup.   
      
      
      When I was most active with   
   > meds, I ran out of brands to try.   To me, that was a 'sign', and I   
   > came to the conclusion that I prefer my unaltered deepest pain and   
   > suffering to being an emotionally flat automoton, which is the best I   
   > experienced with meds personally.  The worst I mentioned above.   
      
   I was put on the wrong drug too at first and i told my dr. i would   
   rather be depressed than on that drug (which was the WRONG drug); but   
   when i was put on the right drug, I was much better than someone who   
   would rather fall in front of a car or hang himself.   
      
      
      
   >   
   > I do know a few people that were helped by meds, but clearly it doesn't   
   > work for all.  That's the point...what works for you may not work for   
   > anyone else, what's right for *you* might not be right for anyone else.   
      
   The right combo works for all.  We have here a body which is known   
   to medicine as an organism that reacts to drug generally in the same   
   way.  If the drug is not right for you, it could be the diagnosis that   
   is not right.  We are not there yet, hence the tiresome experimentations   
   that lead some people to give up.  And trust me some of those people   
   who give up, give up living, unless they are not clinically depressed.   
      
   Squiggles   
      
   p.s. why is this double-posted to the suicide group?  I keep having to   
   erase it.   
      
      
      
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