Re: Medication advice etc

poachedeggs <poachedeggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks all.

I think I will give S.J. Wort a second try then. I had an allergic
reaction to something while I took it first but in all likelihood it
was something else, like a food, but I threw the SJW away in a panic.

If you're inclined to suffer reactions to things, it's worth considering
that when you buy St John's Wort, it's often packaged in a gelatine
capsule - or some sort of capsule. I've heard of people reacting badly
to the capsule (or tabletting material) component of a drug dose.

Different brands of the same drug, therefore, do sometimes give
different effects in that some people sometimes react badly to one
firm's preparation but not that of another.

I have had all sorts of psychotherapy and group work. If I had the
dosh I'd look for a properly intelligent private one rather than
someone dealing in the currently sanctioned line.

Pffff.........

Based on my own experiences, I'd say your best bet is to find someone
good on the NHS. The private psychotherapists I've met have not
impressed me at all. I reckon you've got a better chance on the NHS, I
really do - but from what I've seen (and my wife agrees with me) only
about 1 in 20 mental health professionals are any use at all.

Basically, you're supposed to have choice on the NHS so try to exercise
than choice and if the person you're initially referred to is no bloody
good (and they probably won't be), try to get transferred to someone
else and repeat until you hit on someone who's useful.

I can see CBT would
be of use for a lot of people but if you're already quite lateral with
your thinking and progressive then it doesn't have the same revelatory
effect.

<heh> You sound like me. I did CBT. The therapist gave up because it
was too much work - for her... Well, it seems she was expecting radical
rapid improvement. I had listened to her spiel at the start, and I was
expecting very slow and gradual effects - apparently, it's not worth
doing if it doesn't work quickly. Much better to leave someone disabled
due to mental health problems than give them effective treatment, it
seems.

I do think there is something biochemically amiss with me,

<shrug> Your brain is a complex electrochemical machine. I take the
line that anything that's awry in that line can be corrected by the
brain itself - unless you've got some obvious disease of the brain.

Brains and minds are complex and not understood and I for one don't buy
into the standard psychiatric tales about brain biochemistry.

including an advanced state of kindling,

Kindling? Small bits of stuff suitable for firelighting? I am
confused.

to the extent that some kind
of pill is necessary - I keep coming back to the diabetes analogy,
that I've been as if trying to do without insulin all this time.

I had an ex called Lucy who was on Effexor XL and it was quite
damaging for her and made her want to sleep all the time, so that
one's right out. (I'll assume it's not you, above!)

I've never heard of anyone sleeping all the time because of that one -
but there you go. People are different.

I was once told by a psychiatrist who turned up two hours late and
then gave me five minutes that I'm not depressed, which was quite
amazing, so the idea of anyone being told there's nothing wrong with
them is one we should be mistrustful of.

Yeah, well, my recent experiences have provided me with evidence that
there is an unwritten policy in the NHS to provide a diagnosis of
`nothing wrong with you' unless you're a dangerous nutter
(schizophrenic, pschotic, or so depressed you're going to kill
yourself).

Today I am going to try and buy myself a few days' by buying a guitar
in London, and to look into somewhere in England where I might enjoy a
few days in a b&b. The idea is to try and spend as little as possible
because it's a shame to have £600 and just blow it on nothing as I
seldom have had money that I can use for a proper holiday/ bout of
travelling and I may regret not having it later in the year if things
shift.

Here's hoping it works out well.

Thanks so far people, and please do try and give up wearing yourselves
out with the bickering, compulsive or otherwise.

[snip]

<grin>

That'd be good.

Rowland.

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