To: jbe who wrote (32514 ) 7/19/1999 9:10:00 AM From: Ilaine Read Replies (2) | Respond to
>>>>>threads like the neurology threads you posted a link to can be very, very useful to people suffering from those diseases<<<<<Listening to Prozac (an excellent book, BTW, as is everything I've read by the author, Peter Kramer) that I had the courage to actually go to a psychiatrist and talk about it. I was having a very bad time then, and the psychiatrist said that I suffered from major depression, but it was atypical, which was why I didn't realize it was actually depression. I think what gave me the courage was not only that book, but also the tests that the American Psychiatric Association put into magazines like "Parade" during a month (I believe it's October) where they try to reach people suffering from depression. I would take the tests, and say, yes, I do seem to have depression, but there's nothing to be done about it. The medications available at the time were pretty scarey, until the new stuff came out, not all that long ago. Well, to make a long story short, I tried a couple of the new anti-depressants, Zoloft and Wellbutrin, and they helped me through a bad time, but I don't take them anymore. I take supplements that I get from the health food store that work almost as well without the unpleasant side effects.
