helpdep
10-07-2007, 11:48 AM
I had depression during my 13 yrs and was taking drugs for about 3 years. Then something good happened. I had the willpower to stop the drugs and parallely I did a gret achievement of getting admission to a reputed engineering college. I also got the wisdom, about life, meaning of marriage, and the sweetness about adulthood. I became very cheerful, had peace for about 3 months. During that time, I was no different from any other heathy person. Unfortunately, I again got into depressed feelings mainly because of some kind of abuse by my neighbour, which I kept it to myself.
Then I had been gloomy for years but I had a job and earning good, although my performance was just below average. When I was 30 I approached my psychiatrist that I wanted to become cheerful as every other healthy person. He gave some drugs, and the unfortunate thing happened. I had a mild manic episode, may be the drug triggerred it.( I was living alone away from my husband and daughter and that was a tough time for me.) Ofcourse I had the genetic disposition to get the manic episode. I took drugs for 1 year. as treatment
When I was 32, we moved to US from India, and I approached psychiatrist for some symptoms.
I was advised to take extremely mild doses of drugs, just to prevent manic episode to reoccuring.
For the past 10 years, I have been happier, very successful at job and the next fortunate thing has just happened. That is I read the book "Extraordinary Healing" by Art Brownstein" (around $10 in amazon)which almost has turned me to be free of any psychiatric problem. This book stresses that any illness is temporary and our body has a healing system that will automatically correct it. It suggests positive self-talk to get out of depression. I have been applying positive self talk for about 2 months, and I am practising to be as cheerful as I was when I began adulthood. I truly feel
that I have overcome any kind of psychiatric problem and I am same as any other healthy person now. I have got inner peace atlast.
I am summarising the bottomline of my experience.
1. Seek medical help atleast a psychotherapist.
2. Take drugs at low doses if necessary (Better not go into high doses and get into withdrawal problems)
3. Read Extraordinary Healing by Brownstein book
4. Do positive self talk
5. Recall your time when you were normal.
6. Understand your true self.
7. Believe that you can cure yourself
If you do this, then you can overcome depression
Then I had been gloomy for years but I had a job and earning good, although my performance was just below average. When I was 30 I approached my psychiatrist that I wanted to become cheerful as every other healthy person. He gave some drugs, and the unfortunate thing happened. I had a mild manic episode, may be the drug triggerred it.( I was living alone away from my husband and daughter and that was a tough time for me.) Ofcourse I had the genetic disposition to get the manic episode. I took drugs for 1 year. as treatment
When I was 32, we moved to US from India, and I approached psychiatrist for some symptoms.
I was advised to take extremely mild doses of drugs, just to prevent manic episode to reoccuring.
For the past 10 years, I have been happier, very successful at job and the next fortunate thing has just happened. That is I read the book "Extraordinary Healing" by Art Brownstein" (around $10 in amazon)which almost has turned me to be free of any psychiatric problem. This book stresses that any illness is temporary and our body has a healing system that will automatically correct it. It suggests positive self-talk to get out of depression. I have been applying positive self talk for about 2 months, and I am practising to be as cheerful as I was when I began adulthood. I truly feel
that I have overcome any kind of psychiatric problem and I am same as any other healthy person now. I have got inner peace atlast.
I am summarising the bottomline of my experience.
1. Seek medical help atleast a psychotherapist.
2. Take drugs at low doses if necessary (Better not go into high doses and get into withdrawal problems)
3. Read Extraordinary Healing by Brownstein book
4. Do positive self talk
5. Recall your time when you were normal.
6. Understand your true self.
7. Believe that you can cure yourself
If you do this, then you can overcome depression