Hooray for the antidepressant. I know from personal experience how much difference it makes. Me, I'll never be able to function without it - I was depressed for too many years before I found anything that helped, and I have three different depressive disorders all on top of each other. But I'd managed to reduce the dose before Bad Stuff (TM) happened last year, and I can get it down to that level again.
My girlfriend's been on five different antidepressants, one of which made her visibly a lot better. But it also increased her blood pressure and they had to take her off it. Nothing else has made any difference whatsoever :/
Hooray also for having a plan for a career. I may not be "living up to my potential", but I enjoy doing what I do and it doesn't make me too ill to function. I can't work full-time, and I can't work anywhere with other employees, office politics and closets, but I do the tutoring and it makes me feel like a worthwhile member of society; that I have a function in life. Which during the bad times can be enough to keep me going.
I do want to go back and get a PhD, but I don't know that I'm capable of it yet: too many holes in my head that I need to patch up before I can, plus a colossal amount of money to find as tuition fees. But I want to just to prove that I could.
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Date: 2007-01-02 11:35 pm (UTC)My girlfriend's been on five different antidepressants, one of which made her visibly a lot better. But it also increased her blood pressure and they had to take her off it. Nothing else has made any difference whatsoever :/
Hooray also for having a plan for a career. I may not be "living up to my potential", but I enjoy doing what I do and it doesn't make me too ill to function. I can't work full-time, and I can't work anywhere with other employees, office politics and closets, but I do the tutoring and it makes me feel like a worthwhile member of society; that I have a function in life. Which during the bad times can be enough to keep me going.
I do want to go back and get a PhD, but I don't know that I'm capable of it yet: too many holes in my head that I need to patch up before I can, plus a colossal amount of money to find as tuition fees. But I want to just to prove that I could.