AardvarkGoodSwimmer
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The root cause(s) of my depression? All the time!
I guess I believe in BOTH AND. If part of a person's depression is too little serotonin, for example, why not a SSRI? (but of course not always that easy, biochem being both tricky and subtle)
Or, if a person struggles with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) why not a bank of lights or a light visor? (again, may not be that simple, but willing to accept miracle if it is) |
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ProfumoAffair
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| AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote: | | The root cause(s) of my depression? All the time! |
Drugs and stuff like that don't solve depression. They ward it off. What matters is what thoughts or feelings trigger it. Lots of people have it latently but it isn't triggered. So what's your particular issue? |
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AardvarkGoodSwimmer
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| AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote: | | . . . I have struggled with bouts of depression, have not yet tried antidepressants, but next time I might. . . |
Parts of 2008 were difficult time periods. I've been doing somewhat better since.
I think all of it, all of our hopes, fears, thoughts, plans, dreams, everything, swim in a soup of biochemicals. A good (read: lucky) antidepressant can slow a downward spiral and instead start a spin upward. Problem is, might have to try several, the first is by no means guaranteed to work. That’s my game plan at any rate. And on this one, we might just need to agree to disagree.
Okay, so if you want to dive in and help. Alright, one big issue is jobs. So if you want to share some of your own job struggles as well as successes, that may well be helpful. No guarantees on any of this of course. I also struggle with social nonacceptance, and with partial acceptance, which sometimes ends up being even worse and more painful. I am learning neither baby step nor giant step, but rather medium step by medium step, which might sound basic but has been helpful for me. |
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conundrum
seeking harmony in an imbalanced world
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| indiana wrote: | | What I DO resent is having it suggested that because I learned to cope with the problems of AS I'm not really on the spectrum at all. |
^This. 
IMO, this psychiatrist doesn't know what he's talking about. Just because more diagnoses are happening doesn't mean that it's being "overdiagnosed."
ASD's have always existed. They are recognized more now than when I was growing up (the early to mid-1980's) so of course there are going to be more diagnoses. That does not make them any less valid. How anyone with half a brain could think that is beyond me.
On a related note, here is the reaction of a parent with a child on the spectrum to this article:
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2012/02/01/aspergers-is-over-diagnosed-try-getting-your-kid-evaluated/
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AardvarkGoodSwimmer
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Tim Page responded in a letter to the NY Times.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/opinion/tim-page-on-experiencing-asperger.html?_r=3&ref=letters
To the Editor:
Paul Steinberg (“Asperger’s History of Over-Diagnosis,” Op-Ed, The New York Times on the Web, Feb. 1) simplifies my own experience with the condition, as described in my memoir, “Parallel Play.”
“Social disability” does not begin to sum up my lifelong history of insomnia, anxiety, depression, cluelessness and isolation, little of which was assuaged by Emily Post. Nor, in all modesty, does it address the singleminded, fiercely exclusive energy I can bring to a project that has captured my attention, the immersion in an otherworldly ecstasy that music, writing and film provide, and the very occasional but no less profound joy in my own strangeness.
I do not allow my diagnosis to control my life, and yes, I know that I am “high functioning” and not necessarily typical. Still, I have no doubt that Asperger syndrome explains a great deal about my triumphs, as well as my tragedies.
TIM PAGE
Los Angeles, Feb. 1, 2012 |
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