My new psychiatric meds are working out great. Seriously. Great. It's been less than a week since the change from the old ones.
Don't get me wrong: It's no picnic going through the various side effects that can come with having your brain chemistry brought back into a more reasonable, more functional form. I'm loopy as hell. My stomach comes and goes with upset. I'm somewhat constipated (I poop a small load of perfectly formed dry Milk Duds now). Sometimes I'm very sleepy. Like. Must. Sleep. Now. Poof.
These side effects at the beginning of a course of new psych meds sometimes make people stop taking them before the meds have even had a chance to get the person back into chemical whack. These side effects will pass with my anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds. If I stopped taking them now, I would just slide back into the abyss, perhaps even further than I had been in the first place.
Other folks stop (or never start) because older anti-depressants used to be notorious for having "sexual side effects" (that's doctor speak for killed your urge to fuck). The newer ones are not so bad for that. I always wondered why the sexual side effects were that important to people who were having serious depressive episodes. When you've given up sleeping (or staying awake depending on your case), socializing, hygiene, and joy to something you cannot control, are you really likely to feel in a sexy mood anyway? I don't think so.
Even going through the getting-used-to-new-meds phase isn't so bad this time. Already my muscles have stopped being tense all of the time. Before, they were never really relaxed, even when I was trying to sleep.
I can't even begin to describe how much better my face feels now that I'm not clenching as if I'm braced for rectal probe with a wire brush.
Maybe Tom Cruise could use some anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. From the looks of the scenes I've seen from his latest stinker, he appears to be so tense that he's hammily overacting at every turn.
Besides, how could a person believe in alien superbeings being as real as rain, yet swear that medicine that has worked for millions is evil?
Monday, January 19, 2009
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Tom Cruise can only play one character, and that's Tom Cruise.
Congrats on the meds working!
I'm glad the meds are working so well. Tom Cruise is a turd. And a tool.
How dare you blaspheme against Xenu!! Now pass me some of those pills to try...
LOOK! YOU don't know the history of psychiatry. HE DOES :P
I'm glad you're better.
Without my meds I would become John the Baptist eating locust and honey in the Colorado desert.
Glad you're meds are doing their thing - inhibiting those reuptakes on seratonin and norepinephrine. (At least that's the mechanism of action on what I take). Depression and/or anxiety is no fun. Been through it and prayer alone isn't enough. As the old saying goes...The Good Lord helps those who help themselves. So help yourself to a good dose and get busy livin'.
The Batman
Great to hear! (That you are well, not that TC can take one. Well, that too!) :)
I ran out - again - of one of my two anti-depressants. Have to wait till payday to refill. Doc didn't give me enough samples to see me through! Har. But I see him Friday.
I'm all about Better Living Through Chemistry.
Oh, Tom isn't so bad. He was great in Battlefield Earth and didn't he play the bad guy in the first Blade film? Fabulous actor. Truly.
Crystal Dawn, Thank you. BTW, I love love love Reba. "Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
ETW, Iffin he's a turd how can he be a tool and iffin he's a tool how can he be a turd? Turds are (generally speaking) too soft to be much use as tools, and tools are not good for the flushing. Did I mention this slowered down me likes to think. A lot.
Ron, Xenu can suck it. Getcher own meds. Really. A good shrink is better than a good vibrator because the shrink requires no batteries.
Maura, I'm totally being glib aren't I?
Kenju, ty, tyvm
Rainy, I did not know John the Baptist was from Colorado! I'm proud to be an American (where they can medicate you and me).
Batman, You are wise in the ways of healing the mind. Luvox and Klonopin in case you're wondering, seeing as you're in the biz and all. BTW, we have stock in your company. No lie. I saw the company name on a UFO group e-mail re: our youth.
TFG, I'm pretty sure Mr. Cruise has a well-traveled highway. I hear there's a circular turn at the cul-de-sac of his colon so that the Shriners have a place to turn their little cars around to get back out.
Janis, I would fire your doctor and get one who doesn't let people run out! Seriously. I used to only be able to afford to buy two days worth of anti-depressants at a time when I first started on them. Soon as my doc knew that, she was quite Christmasy with the samples.
Bill, But he totally destroyed the masterpiece that is Hairspray didn't he? Who won't do drag? Sheesh.
I feel I should add that Batman and I have a mutual friend we grew up with who goes by UFO. UFO sent a group e-mail. Batman and I do not belong to any UFO groups. If we did, you implanted control chips wouldn't allow us to tell you anyway.
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