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vicky
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| Posted: Sat 2323 Jun 07, 2 pm Post subject: Antidepressants |
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Has anyone had any experience of anti-depressants and whether they found these to be useful for treating depression and whether they had any other knock on effects, or any experience of using CBT with anti-depressants?
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vicky
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I take antidepressants and I am currently in REBT with a psychologist.
When I first started therapy, I was under the impression that the therapist would help me solve all of my life's problems. As I discovered this meant WORK, I increasingly became frustrated with my lack of ability to change my thinking. I remember telling the psychologist that I did not want to take any medications, I just wanted advice.
I have PTSD and the therapy sessions were very intense. Once I was "brave" enough and I felt that I could "trust" my therapist, I was able to tell him why I really had come for therapy. I could not tell him in words. I wrote a "letter" to him telling him why I wanted help. The first couple of months, I didn't say a word. He did all of the talking. I began having flashbacks in therapy and I was dissociating. I was becoming very depressed and I had to make the decision to continue with therapy and hopefully resolve my PTSD or to quit therapy and continue as I had been for 40+ years.
I was so depressed and so anxiety ridden that I asked him what he thought of people that took medication for my problems. The constant anxiety was very debilitating and I have a full-time job. He thought this would be a good route for me to take.
I began taking a SSRI and I was sick to my stomach for the first 2 weeks. I wanted to stop taking the pills; but, at that point my therapist told me "no" and to keep taking them. After the first month, I switched to another SSRI.......same problems.
Now, Dr. Grieger referred me to a psychiatrist for medication management. I was put on a "psychiatric cocktail" which eventually led to my being able to "think" during therapy.
Without my psychiatrist, my therapist, and my medications, I would not be in therapy. I would have quit due to experiencing overwhelming emotions.
vicky
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anoopkumar
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its good to see that the book study is going wonderfully-thanks buddies-Rex Nycky and all-
talking abt anti depressants , i think i will give a brief introduction abt myself agiain- iam 45 ,male from india-eldest son of neurotic/psychotic mother whgo killed herself early- took anti dpressive for two /three years early in 20's- now for the past two years taking anti depressives -ssri-abt one and half years back discovered rebt/cbt- got the book feeling good- read it quite a numbers of times- then a lot of Ellis articles-i parctice it on my own way- things are brightening up- for the past one month reduced the antideppresants to half the min quantiy-
coming to the discussion, the page XX says that genetic influences account for only 16% depression-
what exactly is inherited?for my case ican say that i inherited a certain sensitivity-a sensitivity that makes one more suceptible to distorted thinking- perhaps a faster and easier access- so for such ppl who easily fallinto pitfalls,naturally it will be more difficult to come out of it-my two other brothers are affected in no way- they are both doctors and doing exceptionally well-i even suspect that the inheritance have been of help to them
i believe that rebt/cbt should make use of past digs-
for my case past digs with disputing or cbt techniques seems to give good result-perhaps past digs take you to the battlefileds more easily and faster-
do we have any ( other than that in the book) other recent results on the outcome studies on the effectiveness of rebt/cbt?
iam a patient, an amature, a 1st grader.so i beg my group members to see me in that light.
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