need reassurance please?

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<<Funny how things can change: just Tuesday I was writing about how

GREAT I feel eating well and would NOT go back to old ways, then, I

had to take a day off work yesterday due to feeling depressed. I

haven't had these feelings in a LONG time. I spent the day in bed,

eating ice cream and potato chips for meals. My apartment is an

absolute pig sty, and I feel I am starting to act like a depressed

person again (although I am going to try to eat well today and I did

get my butt to the gym first thing this morning and worked on the

eliptical for an hour). I am really scared and need reassurance. I

feel like I am buying into the BS that I am depressed naturally so

getting off these meds is just going to bring that out again.Any

BigPharma-brainwash-BS zappers out there? I need to rid myself of

this thinking!!!

Is it true that because my brain lived with the seratonin for so long

that taking it out will mean depression until it figures out how to

do it without meds again?

Could I be depressed for life now because of permanent damage from

taking the drugs?

Med withdrawl status: came off last dose of cipralex one week ago -

reduced it 10% at a time, as recommended. still have 300 wellbutrin

and 75 effexor to go.

Thanks to anyone who is listening,

>>

** , what you're experiencing is an adjustment in your chemistry. It's

not all going to be comfortable each time. This is ther backlash of soing

another reduction. Give it time to even out. You'll be fine.

As far as being depressed for life because of all the drugs you've taken, no,

this won't happen if you eat properly and pay attention to the way your body

communicates with your spirit regarding your life choices.

The drug industry wants you to believe depression is all about serotonin. I

could address depression in anyone by giving them a few drinks which enhances

the effects of GABA. I could also give some opiates which raises dopamine. The

reality is that no onehas ever estasblished an optimal range of serotonin in a

person's brain and you won't find this being done formally because it will

destroy the drug industry's myth of " low serotonin " causing depression.

You can break down depression into two categories (with a few exceptions)

-- exogenous and endogenous. Exogenous depression is the depression people

experience in response to life's events. Feeling this way for short periods of

time is perfectly normal. It is self-resolving as people process through the

events that are at the root of the depression. In some situations a person

needs to make changes in their lives (examples -- a job they hate, a

relationship that is not working). In other situations, it calls for acceptance

(acceptance -- the death of a loved one, or the loss of a job or relationship).

By far, the most common of these causes of depression in this category is

people who engage in wishful thinking. They want things the way they want them

and refuse to accept the way things are and begin moving forward again. For all

intents and purposes, they are frozen. They keep waiting for the situation to

become more pleasing when what is really called for is for them to create a more

pleasing situation for themselves. Until they decide to make the necessay

changes or come accept the situation with which they struggle, they will remain

depressed. This is how the body prompts you to take notice and make changes.

You can take all the antidepressants you want, and whern you're done, the

problem will still be there.

The problem lies in how many of us in industrialized nations view discomfort

Endogenous depression is chemical in origin. It is almost always he result of

a poor diet. This is very easy to address. It used to be that this type of

depression was least common. I believe it is now most common.

Amino acids create neurotransmitters. To create healthy neurotransmitters,

other vitamins and minerals are necessary. People who are eating processed

foods are not getting these substances. You need whole, fresh foods for this.

Also contributing are fresh air and sunshine.

More often than not, when a person begins a healthy diet it takes just a

week or two for profound differences to occur.

Most people today who have been depressed have been told they have a disease

that needs to be treated. This leads people to be wary of any feelings of

depression. They respond in ways that people who are ill respond. For example,

you felt depressed so you did not go to work. That is a conditioned

over-response to feeling depressed. It would never occur to me not to goto work

if I felt depressed. I would note how I was feeling and then continue my day.

I might be more thoughful about lunch and dinner, giving myself really high

quality foods, and I might even decide that after work I will go home and just

chill out to a movie or take a nap instead of meeting friends for dinner.

In other words, I would not worry about how I was feeling. But the

difference here is that I accept periods of depression as a normal part of life

and those who have been brainwashed think of it as a disease. If thid feeling

was to continue for more than a few days I would ask myself what I find

unsatiasfactory in my life and I would also look at whether I've recently

endured a major shock (someone's death, a break-up, a lost job, etc.) If I

found some dissatisfaction that I could change in my life, I'd make a plan to

change it. If I was grieving a loss, I'd allow myself to grieve it, knowing

that one of these days soon, I willexamine it with my heart and spirit and rely

on my foundational spiritual beliefs. A brief overview of these are:

-- Nothing is an accident; everything happens for a reason. I may not be able

to fathom that reason now, but I KNOW that the Universe is infinitely wiser than

I and always brings me what I need at any given time in my journey here (in most

cases, it is just a matter of a few hours to a few days until I figure out why

something is happening in my life).

-- Further reinforcing this is my trust that I will always be guided in the

direction I need to be going. If I ignore this guidance, it will come to me in

forms more difficult to ignore. This makes me feel very safe because I know I

can trust this.

-- I remind myself of how many times something that felt bad yurned out to be

good for me -- a present of sorts.

Getting to this point was a process. My commitment to it got me there. Books

by Deepak Chopra, Neale Walsch, and M. Peck helped. Being tired of

running around in circles helped.

I think what you're experiencing is the effects of your last reduction. This

is a time to support your body, not assault it. It will pass.

Regards,