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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 629771" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Nancy, it is one thing to have a few neurotic issues. But as one who has a mood disorder it is definitely outside the norm to not even be able to get out of bed because you're so depressed and scared (and you don't know why) that you can't function without your medications. Nancy, you are kind and did not mean to make anyone feel bad, but I need to explain that the pill isn't a "happy" pill. It actually changes your brain chemistry so that a mentally ill person can function just like a normal person. It is the same as insulin for diabetes. If you need it, it is indeed very crazy NOT to take it. It can kill you if you don't.</p><p></p><p>Like Janet, whom I admire a lot, I am always compliant with my medication and abstain from all drinking and extra drug use. This is mandatory for me I will fall far from the "norm." There actually IS a norm and when people suffer from serious mood disorders, you have to be more careful about yourself. Those medications are absolutely a must. There is no question about it. Drinking, which many people do anyway, can screw up those medications. Obviously so can pot or any other recreational drug. You need to try to eat well and sleep well or the stress can set you back.</p><p></p><p>Most people don't have to go that far just to be able to get out of bed and go to work. Also, depression fogs your brain so badly that I know, when I used to get so depressed, I couldn't read a book or watch a funny television show to get my mind off of it. It is always there, like a broken leg that is not being treated. It is some sort of extreme hurt that will not go away.</p><p></p><p>Thank God for Paroxatine, the first and only medication that made me understand "normal." When our difficult children won't take their medication or mix it with recreational drugs and alcohol or claim they can do it themselves or that they don't need the medications, if they really do have mental illness, it is no surprise they turn to dangerous drugs, which is ironic since they won't take monitored drugs that have helped them.</p><p></p><p>Also, a normal person will probably never be a patient in a psychiatric ward. I was, once for ten weeks, and two other times for medication reactions/adjustments. But I was trying hard to get well.</p><p></p><p>Now I like to joke that I'm insane, not normal, etc, but I mean it like most people mean it...they don't really mean it literally. There is a normal. It is the ability to function without abnormally wild mood swings or the horror of the even worse schizophrenia with it's hallucinations and cognitive deterioration.</p><p></p><p>And, because of the Civil Rights movement, there is no way to force the truly mentally ill to be compliant and most of them are not compliant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 629771, member: 1550"] Nancy, it is one thing to have a few neurotic issues. But as one who has a mood disorder it is definitely outside the norm to not even be able to get out of bed because you're so depressed and scared (and you don't know why) that you can't function without your medications. Nancy, you are kind and did not mean to make anyone feel bad, but I need to explain that the pill isn't a "happy" pill. It actually changes your brain chemistry so that a mentally ill person can function just like a normal person. It is the same as insulin for diabetes. If you need it, it is indeed very crazy NOT to take it. It can kill you if you don't. Like Janet, whom I admire a lot, I am always compliant with my medication and abstain from all drinking and extra drug use. This is mandatory for me I will fall far from the "norm." There actually IS a norm and when people suffer from serious mood disorders, you have to be more careful about yourself. Those medications are absolutely a must. There is no question about it. Drinking, which many people do anyway, can screw up those medications. Obviously so can pot or any other recreational drug. You need to try to eat well and sleep well or the stress can set you back. Most people don't have to go that far just to be able to get out of bed and go to work. Also, depression fogs your brain so badly that I know, when I used to get so depressed, I couldn't read a book or watch a funny television show to get my mind off of it. It is always there, like a broken leg that is not being treated. It is some sort of extreme hurt that will not go away. Thank God for Paroxatine, the first and only medication that made me understand "normal." When our difficult children won't take their medication or mix it with recreational drugs and alcohol or claim they can do it themselves or that they don't need the medications, if they really do have mental illness, it is no surprise they turn to dangerous drugs, which is ironic since they won't take monitored drugs that have helped them. Also, a normal person will probably never be a patient in a psychiatric ward. I was, once for ten weeks, and two other times for medication reactions/adjustments. But I was trying hard to get well. Now I like to joke that I'm insane, not normal, etc, but I mean it like most people mean it...they don't really mean it literally. There is a normal. It is the ability to function without abnormally wild mood swings or the horror of the even worse schizophrenia with it's hallucinations and cognitive deterioration. And, because of the Civil Rights movement, there is no way to force the truly mentally ill to be compliant and most of them are not compliant. [/QUOTE]
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