Re: Unusual mental illness, need some advice.
From: PF Riley (pfriley_at_watt-not.com)
Date: 09/21/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:13:18 -0700
On 20 Sep 2004 02:52:19 -0700, sawal_7432@yahoo.co.uk (Sawal_7432)
wrote:
>I came to this room some time ago, and asked for advice on a quite
>unusal illness.Namely,i suffered from many of the physical symptoms of
>depression:severely blunted emotions,lack of sex drive,low
>concentration span,lack of energy etc,but without actually feeling
>much of the sadness normally assocated with depression.I asked what
>drugs i could buy to help with my condition,and everyone told me i
>needed to go and see a doctor,rather than try to self-medicate.
>I have thought about this,and although i think you're right,there is
>still some inner-resistance to seeing a doctor.I have tried to analyse
>this,and i think the reasons are this:1)if i had suffered from normal
>depression,with the assocated sadness, i would have been down at the
>dctors office years ago,but because the symptoms of my illness appear
>to be so different,i feel the doctor might dismiss my case as not
>being that serious,or even worse the symptoms as exagerrated.
Or, the doctor might diagnose you with something else besides
depression, something you hadn't thought of.
>2)Now,this is the real road-block to me going to see a doctor; If i
>see a doctor, and he gives me some anti-depressants, and those don't
>work,then i'm going to have to live with this illness for the rest of
>my life.Whereas, if i don't see a doctor,I don't have to face the news
>about whether or not my ilness is ever curable.
Failure of therapy could be a helpful clue leading to an alternate
diagnosis as well. Not a good reason to just not try at all.
PF
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