Comments on: The Feel-Good-Enough Drugs http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2007/11/12/the-feel-good-e/ Adventures in being sick, getting better, staying well, from the editors of Health.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:52:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mchildress http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2007/11/12/the-feel-good-e/#comment-1 mchildress Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:57:47 +0000 http://localhost/wp/poked/?p=2#comment-1 Until two years ago,I woke up every day disappointed that I was alive to wake up. I did not think I was depressed. Angry,lethargic,short tempered,disorganized, I knew I was, but that was just my personality I thought. An unexpected pregnancy caused me to examine the world I had created for myself and I discovered that had A LOT of baggage I would have to confront to be the parent I wanted to be. Well, I miscarried at the end of my first trimester and I was left my baggage and a suicidal ideation on over drive. I checked myself in to a hospital, fully expecting that I would be sent home as sane, and then I would kill myself. But I was given SRI antidepressants. They saved my life. Because of them I was able to learn how to manage and navigate through the ambiguities of life that I missed . I will always take the pills. But the pills are part of the support I need to apply the cognitive therapy techniques, that are what allow me to experience happiness and calm even though I am person with depression. Until two years ago,I woke up every day disappointed that I was alive to wake up. I did not think I was depressed. Angry,lethargic,short tempered,disorganized, I knew I was, but that was just my personality I thought.
An unexpected pregnancy caused me to examine the world I had created for myself and I discovered that had A LOT of baggage I would have to confront to be the parent I wanted to be. Well, I miscarried at the end of my first trimester and I was left my baggage and a suicidal ideation on over drive. I checked myself in to a hospital, fully expecting that I would be sent home as sane, and then I would kill myself. But I was given SRI antidepressants. They saved my life. Because of them I was able to learn how to manage and navigate through the ambiguities of life that I missed .
I will always take the pills. But the pills are part of the support I need to apply the cognitive therapy techniques, that are what allow me to experience happiness and calm even though I am person with depression.

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