$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lumpy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'L')umpy, you must promise never to leave this site, and continue offering your thoughts, insights and recommendations until the last server goes down.
Thanks for your helpful contributions.
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Psychological Overshoot and Drugs
Re: Psychological Overshoot and Drugs
by Lumpy » Sun 23 Mar 2008, 01:06:16
Thank you, Tex, for your thoughts, and for taking the time to post them openly here.
I have to tell you, your kind words could not have come at a better time for me.
Lumpy
I can't think of a more useful contributor to this site than a physician who has been a practicing psychiatrist and who now has sort of done a "pre-bugout" and is getting set up to have a family medical practice in a small town.
That's the whole package. You've got your flight surgeon, your priest, your pragmatist and your philosopher, all rolled into one.
You would definitely be a first round pick in the doomer draft.
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My thanks to you again.
Actually, I can't be a priest ... I'm Catholic, and my church doesn't allow women priests. But I certainly do incorporate the spiritual into my practice.
And as for the small town family practice ... well, let me clarify that, too. Right now I practice psychiatry in five different rural locations, on different days/weeks. The family practice is likely to be the same -- kind of an itinerant medicine woman
As for pragmatist and philosopher -- well, yeah, you got me on those.
Lumpy
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Psychological Overshoot and Drugs
by Kristen » Sun 23 Mar 2008, 05:15:23
I've been on different medications for thirteen years. I started on lithium when I was ten. Well lithium made my urine turn black so on to the magical world of SSRI's I went. There was prozac first, zoloft second, and paxil third. I noticed how anxious I had become so good old doctor sheriff gave me a prescription for Xanax. It was great for the anxiety, but too great. I was 16 then and I went from a straight A student to a C student. I was so calm and carefree I didn't need to study. Obviously I had ADD. My next stop was the world of stimulants, which were added to the SSRIs and xanax. I felt like a zombie. I couldn't keep my eyes off the chalkboard and I more focused then ever before. At the same time my thoughts were racing and the euphoria was intense. Then I would take a xanax to balance things out.
I lived like this for five more years. Finally, I decided to get off everything. Two months of immense struggle and I was finally successful. I learned self hypnosis and take an herbal supplement called 5htp. From my experiences I'd say drugs only cause more problems then there worth.
I lived like this for five more years. Finally, I decided to get off everything. Two months of immense struggle and I was finally successful. I learned self hypnosis and take an herbal supplement called 5htp. From my experiences I'd say drugs only cause more problems then there worth.
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Re: Psychological Overshoot and Drugs
by vision-master » Sun 23 Mar 2008, 10:05:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kristen', 'I')'ve been on different medications for thirteen years. I started on lithium when I was ten. Well lithium made my urine turn black so on to the magical world of SSRI's I went. There was prozac first, zoloft second, and paxil third. I noticed how anxious I had become so good old doctor sheriff gave me a prescription for Xanax. It was great for the anxiety, but too great. I was 16 then and I went from a straight A student to a C student. I was so calm and carefree I didn't need to study. Obviously I had ADD. My next stop was the world of stimulants, which were added to the SSRIs and xanax. I felt like a zombie. I couldn't keep my eyes off the chalkboard and I more focused then ever before. At the same time my thoughts were racing and the euphoria was intense. Then I would take a xanax to balance things out.
I lived like this for five more years. Finally, I decided to get off everything. Two months of immense struggle and I was finally successful. I learned self hypnosis and take an herbal supplement called 5htp. From my experiences I'd say drugs only cause more problems then there worth.
I lived like this for five more years. Finally, I decided to get off everything. Two months of immense struggle and I was finally successful. I learned self hypnosis and take an herbal supplement called 5htp. From my experiences I'd say drugs only cause more problems then there worth.
Small dosages of green prozac my friend! That and pently of exercise. Queen Victoria used medicinal C*****s extracts to deal with chronic pain.
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