Re: Most Prescribed Drug in U.S.: Antidepressants

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:40:06 -0700, trisha f
<plfreitag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote something wonderfully witty:

I take Lexapro, but not necessarily for depression.

I do have major depressive disorder.

I also have OCD.

I also have atypical facial pain, which is, if you can imagine it,
like someone peeled open my head and stripped my skull and all the
tissues down to the nerves, and left them sitting raw and ready to
absorb every single stimulus in the universe - sound, light, movement,
wind, touch, and so on - and translate those stimuli into pain.

All atypical means is that it isn't typical. Earlier literature has
linked ATFP to "psychological pathology." However, some researchers
now think that it is an early form of trigeminal neuralgia.

The Lexapro, somehow, metaphorically puts most of my tissue, skull,
and scalp back on, and helps me be able to do dishes, keep clean
clothes on our backs, and open my eyes. I still hurt, and it's not
pleasant, but at least now sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's
office doesn't leave me in tears from the abundance of input into my
brain.

That would make sense if it's basis is "psychological pathology."

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