antidepressants/sleep aids

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Carol, I really feel for you where you are right now, in the beginning

stages of getting better. It's a very good sign that you want to

attend an area meeting. I couldn't do that for several months after I

transitioned to Armour. Way too pooped. I'll definitely take where I

am right now over a year ago, but it still doesn't keep me from

wanting to get better faster. I think it's in the human spirit to want

to keep going and do more, when you feel more capable. It's so counter-

intuitive to hold yourself back. There's a bad tendency to want to

make up for lost time.

Getting solid sleep is so important to me, and for others it's wanting

to sleep far less. I've had several good long nights of sleep, after a

great deal of activity, or something like a long road trip, where I

realize I've gotten the deep, restorative kind of sleep that I've

missed for years. I wish I could charge out the door for long walks,

or get on the treadmill, and work with weights, since I know that

exercise helps with sleep. But it looks like that's a long way off. So

we'll just have to stay put on our meds until we're healed enough to

come off them.