Posted by Elle2021 on March 25, 2004, at 1:55:11
In reply to Re: Preoccupied » Elle2021, posted by lonelygirl on March 24, 2004, at 13:03:35
> I feel stupid now :)
Please don't! I haven't been posting as much lately (I've been "out of it"), so it's no wonder you thought I was new. No big deal. :)
>I just get kind of sad when nobody answers my posts at all.
Me too, but try not to take it personally. Sometimes when I don't respond to someone it's because I just don't know what to say, or I feel like I don't have any helpful advice. But, it is comforting just to get a post that says, "hey, I'm sorry your feeling back, hope things get better."
> And um, no, I didn't get the papers done. I still have all day and all night, though... I guess I probably shouldn't be HERE, but oh well.
Oh yes, this is my distraction! A number of times I have sat down to write a paper, and suddenly I find myself here! hehe :)
>He asked me how things were going and I just gave a vague answer
I do the same thing. One time I called my T cause I had crashed really bad and when she called back I just told her I felt sick... She goes, "and?" I literally couldn't say anything. Ahhh! I don't know why I couldn't say, "hey I crashed."
> It is supposedly not good to quit "cold-turkey" without tapering off (or maybe that's what you do?).
Sometimes I taper, sometimes I don't. It depends on how long I have been taking them.
>I don't really remember exactly when I quit, but I don't remember having any "withdrawal" problems. Do you?
I had withdrawl symptoms from the Klonopin pretty bad, mostly in the form of nightmares and nausea.
>Have you ever discussed this with your doctor?
Yes...One of my dx's is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. At one point I was very obsessed with taking the exact "right" amount of each med and about possible fatal side effects, so I started calling him like once a week to talk about the meds and he got...um...irritated! He finally told me, "They are your meds, and you may take them when you feel necessary and how you want to take them." Hmm...
>Some, like mine, just keep on writing the prescription, year ofter year,
Mine prescribes my scripts like that too.
>while it seems like others want to prescribe only for a short time and then push to get the patient off meds.
Studies show that "talk therapy" has a longer-lasting effect. Meds just do the trick faster, but with the potential for relapse upon discontinuing them. I'm doing both meds and therapy. Let's hope at least one of them works. :)
Elle
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