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not depression
Tue, 04/01/2014 - 03:44How many times when I tried to talk about my experiences and was told "you've depressed and need medication".Simply because I had a normal reaction to a terrible situation. I soon learned to keep my mouth shut, even around so called professionals: social worker, neurologists and doctors. If you open your mouth they say you're clinically depressed. He any one had this experience?
Not quite the same thing, but
Submitted by Eternal_Howl on Tue, 2014-04-01 - 23:14
Not quite the same thing, but I was tapering off medication about 13 years ago and it's highly addictive, so I had to do it slowly. Well, I started losing sleep and that losing sleep became quite significant. I had severe insomnia. When I told my doctor, he gave me some exercises and asked me what I was thinking about at night. I said, nothing. I just couldn't get to sleep. So he sent me to a sleep specialist and the sleep specialist said they thought I was manic and that I had a goiter (I thought he was delusional) and I knew I wasn't and didn't, but was sent to a psychiatrist and I told him I know I'm not manic or bipolar and he acknowledged the same thing within the first five minutes. Turns out, the insomnia was a side-effect of tapering off the meds and I had even asked my general doctor about that and he said he hadn't heard anything about it. I changed doctors within six months of that BS and found someone who knew all about the meds . Sometimes we need to re-evaluate who we're seeing if all they want to do is medicate us without looking at the realities and actually listening. Now I live in the US, I know that changing doctors can be a more expensive exercise. I used to live in a more 'reasonably priced' healthcare market. But on the same token, sometimes we can be experiencing a period of depression that is pocketed with normality enough to make us feel like we're not in a state of depression.