Oh, that explains my emotional state this week

[xiphias]

Right.  So, Tuesday and Wednesday were basically lost days for me this week.  I didn't feel emotionally down, but I had no energy, and fell asleep for hours, for most of the day, actually.

 

This morning, I could barely get out of bed, staggered to the bathroom, and went to take my meds.  My pill case still had Tuesday and Wednesday's pills in it.

 

As much evidence as I have that the meds work, I still have trouble believing it.  I figure it HAS to be mainly psychosomatic l.  But when I forget meds, this happens -- and i don't know that I've forgotten, because, if I knew that, I'd not have forgotten.  The difference is so dramatic.

 

I took my meds this morning, and, over the next 45 minutes, I felt the brain-fog being cut away.  And I'm now basically okay.

 

Without the meds, I still felt the desire to do things -- I WANTED to do chores, to do some writing, things like that.  I had the desire, even the motivation, which is why I didn't recognize it as depression-related.  But I had no capacity or capability to do anything.

 

So, that's good to know.

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Comments

[ailbhe]

I have to have a checklist including eat, drink, get dressed, take meds.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

wow. and you've gotten all this from lamictal?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm still on a bit of Lexapro, too. So that probably has SOME effect. But it's probably mainly the Lamictal.

I may well be on one end of the bell curve of effectiveness of the drug. The literature says that Lamical does NOT have this kind of nearly instant response. On the other hand, my psychopharm says that, even though the literature says Lamictal doesn't act that fast, a third to a half of his patients disagree. So I'm I'm on one end of the bell curve, so are a goodly portion of Dr Bayard's patients. . .

[navrins]

I'm one who disagrees... when I first went on Lamictal (which I'm not using anymore) I got pretty near instant relief. Maybe it was the placebo effect, but who cares?* If it works, it works.

* Second base, I know.

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I am glad you know what works for you.

I am thinking about stepping back into the pharmaceutical treatment end of things for my own depression, but so many of the drugs seem new; I'm really wary of the experimentation that must occur before a person finds something that works.

On the other hand, Tuesday was a lost day for me, too.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I have to be really careful not to turn into a medication evangelist. It works so well for me that I have to consciously remind myself that I'm maybe not typical.

That said, I DO tend to feel that pharmaceuticals are often a very useful, sometimes even an absolutely necessary, piece of treating depression, and, as such, I would tend to encourage you to see if they will help you.

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

Well, I was basically tried out on every darn drug there was, circa 1997-2001. Nothing worked. The thing is, it really does seem like there's been a whole new set of options developed since then. I don't know. We'll see. Kinda avoiding the medical establishment in general at the moment, in any case.

I appreciate you not evangelizing, but I am super happy to hear of a case where someone found something that really helps them. That's brightened my day.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Do you remember my analogy from years and years ago about the difference between a chair and a pile of wood? *smiles at you*

[seventorches.livejournal.com]

That sounds interesting, I want to hear the analogy.