Should I get back on the meds?
14th June 2005
I am a little jealous. Kind of. Just a little. Real Life Preacher went the whole course of medication for his depression and now seems to be squarely on the road to his recovery. He chronicled his story in four parts: Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. It’s a great read, ending in a nice resolution that makes you heave a sigh of relief for the Preacher.
My own story is a little more checkered. I found that I had been depressed almost my entire life, even though apparently, I didn’t know it, and apparently I was such a good actor that most people around me didn’t know either. However, my family knew something was wrong with me. There were those mood swings. Scratch that. Make that extreme mood swings. So, it came as no surprise, at least to my wife, that I was diagnosed as “borderline bipolar” (as I said before, whatever that means).
Interestingly, unlike RLP, I was prescribed the meds “with the slight risk of sexual side effects”
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