Sunday, March 22, 2009
anti-depressant postcard
Once again a postcard on this week's PostSecret blog entry really spoke to me. I've said this hundreds of times since I was 16.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Where to get help
BPD in OKC's followers
Visit my profiles
Sites on borderline personality disorder
- Anything to Stop the Pain
- borderline blog
- borderline personality treatment
- bpd inside out
- BPD Relationship Recovery -- Me Project
- clinically clueless
- Fighting the Urge
- Florida BPD association
- Glaring madness
- Hope for BPD
- How Pigtails Sees It
- Interconnectivity
- Mentally Going Backwards
- Middle path
- National Education Alliance for BPD
- Polar Bear
- Split: BPD LIfestyle Blog
- the mass defective
- The Psycho Ex-Wife
- untreatable
- Walking the borderline
Sites on bipolar
- an inconvenient illness
- Balance & bananas
- bipolar and me
- Bipolar Bean
- Bipolar blast
- Bipolar Blog
- Bipolar chicks blogging
- BIPOLAR CONFESSIONAL
- Bipolar Journey
- bipolar mo
- bipolar speaks
- bulletproof soul
- Carnival of the Bipolars
- Disjointed Thoughts
- Eternal Amour
- Fighting depression
- Is Something Not Quite Right With Stan
- Jungle tart
- Loopy, Lonely and Lost
- MICELLO'S MUSINGS
- My mentally ill life
- Pax Nortona - A Blog by Joel Sax
- Social Anxiety and Bipolar Diary of Annie
- spin me i pulsate
- tackling bipolar disorder
- The BiPolar Ultra Mellow Lounge
- The unstable blogger
- Twisted Workings of a Self Mutilating Someone
- Undercover bipolar
Other mental health blogs/sites
- A Plaster for my Mind
- abysmal musings
- Aethelread the Unread
- beauty remains skin deep but scars go even deeper
- Beyond Blue
- Chunks of reality
- DBT Self Help
- dr shock
- Dr. Deb
- Eat a Cheeseburger (eating disorder)
- ED bites (eating disorder)
- Every woman has an eating disorder
- Holding of Wrist
- I'm agoraphobic
- JustAna
- Me and my depression
- Mental Health Update
- Mind Hacks
- NAMI
- overcoming schizophrenia
- patient anonymous
- Pulling out hair
- Random Anorexics
- Rayne's World
- SAFE alternatives (self harm site)
- Self-injury: a struggle
- Sugar filled emotions
- Walk on the wild side
7 comments:
I've heard of this phenomenon before. My sister reports feeling numbed by her meds. But it satisfied her, the same way a local anaesthetic satisfies a patient undergoing surgery.
And this make me ask the question, 'what, exactly do we mean by 'happy?' I sort of think of happiness as a choice, not a destination. But, that's just me. To try striking a balance with the meds, that's quite an art. We want to relieve the pain without being incapable of feeling.
I could so relate to this. I have been on meds for five years - on Lithium consistently for two years now and since I've been OFF lithium recently..I feel so much better.
It is such a cycle with mental illness..medication is suppose to make you feel better (to a degree) and so is positive thinking.
However, meds seem to make us worse, bad side effects, and makes us numb.
Who really knows the answer to this..who knows what really works and doesn't.
I feel that since being diagnosed with bipolar..that is all I think about, read about, write about, take meds for, try to eat healthier because of it, and I live and breathe it!
I need a break and stop thinking about it for once..I think this is my problem..constant thinking and working to make myself better that I am making myself worse.
I saw that one too and had a similar reaction.
I know the feeling too.
It should be banned.
Thank you for the image.
I would like to post it on my blog it if you don't mind.
Love,
Ana
Maybe try some different meds?
I changed recently from citalopram to dosulepin.
Put loads of wieght on, but feeling much calmer. Not sure about my emotions dumbed down? Maybe thats what os giving me some writers block at the mo.
Ana, anything you find on my blog is free range. I don't mind anyone reposting any of my blog entries.
:D
Excellent. i sometimes think mine just keep me from killing myself...except when i take a whole bunch...not a suicide attempt, just stupid.
Post a Comment