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I'm not sure what I repped you for originally, bothwell, but now it is two times I have wanted to rep you and been unable.
I am in the middle of a long super slow recovery that involves a cocktail of drugs. It is hard and takes a lot of conversations with doctors to figure out what works and what definitely doesn't. And doses. I think the medications never get you to what you may have been before but only can get you to 'life is tolerable in most cases'.
@JWestland That is a really sad story. It is a hard thing when what you need is to be forcibly calmed down for a time but then stop being able to communicate with the dr to get you to where you need to go. That dialogue is the important thing, I think, because the medications are all so imprecise* and what works or doesn't is so personal.
*And for a lot of them they don't even know why or how they work. Psychiatry reminds me of that horrible type of problem solving that one sometimes resorts to where you are just trying random things that have sort of worked before on other similar problems and seeing if there is a positive effect. It happens at like 2AM computer programming sometimes.