silentkid wrote:I'm currently taking Celexa for depression. I've taken Prozac and Effexor in the past. I take Xanax as needed for anxiety. While it may seem like I drink a lot from the comments I make on the board, the truth is that I drink at most two nights a month. I try to avoid it with the medication I'm on. Depression is real. I suffered depression as an active, believing member and I suffer depression as a disbeliever. I don't give a f*** if people make fun of the medications I take.
Yep. I'm happy I have the right mix of medications. And even if I wanted to drink, the pill I take every evening comes with a nasty warning about alcohol.
everyone is in good company. Darwin reportedly had problems with depression when the light bulb went on, but what is kind of interesting is that my life long battle with depression appears to be starting to turn around since the light bulb went on - today when I read that during a revelation in a room, Joseph Smith was looking up and saying can you see it, and sidney rigdon was sitting down saying Yes, Yes, I can and then Rigdon would do the same thing - do you see it and Joseph would say , I see it - but everone in the room was just looking around and couldn't see anything - that was big one and something I needed to read. Dan Vogel wrote an essay on the witnesses in American Apocrypha and I would recommend that as your next book. I'v read about five great essays so far and have about five more to go.
barrelomonkeys wrote:Silentkid, I hope you know that I didn't start this thread to make fun of anyone that takes medication for depression or any ailment. I was trying to point out the hypocricy of those that drink and then make fun of others that take medication for different purposes.
I know you weren't poking fun and no offense taken. I agree with your take on the hypocrisy issue. I just don't care if people make fun of the medication I take by calling them happy pills and whatnot. I make fun of a lot of things too.
barrelomonkeys wrote:thestyleguy, are you suggesting that book for me to read?
Hi BoMs
sure, if you are interested in how people see things that are not there :group hypnosis and hallucinations; about the history of taking old scriptures and creating new stories, I came away from one essay about Seers thinking that the Book of Mormon could be a little Lord of the Rings if you find all the little verses or speeches regarding instruments that help you see into another world. It's super interesting. Some of it is over my head but I'm going to mark this one up and read it at the gym while I do my treadmill and get to know each essay very well and look up the notes in the back. It could be a source for a life long study. This stuff helps me in some sort of way - some good way. If you really think about it when I "grew up" in the church, excommunication was the worse thing in world and it's a way to intiminate someone. Excommunicated people are "turned over to the buffettings of satan. Some could see it as a curse put on them and I really wonder if that is what happened to me. Consciously it was very traumatic as I was only nineteen. Subconsciously - I couldn't even guess what was going on - I became very paranoid, depressed, compulsive and needed to be treated by professionals but that didn't happen for twenty more years. I've got scars on my wrist from a bad year in 1993. but I know these books are helping big time. It's a freeing process.
regards,
thestyleguy
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thestyleguy wrote:everyone is in good company. Darwin reportedly had problems with depression when the light bulb went on, but what is kind of interesting is that my life long battle with depression appears to be starting to turn around since the light bulb went on - today when I read that during a revelation in a room, Joseph Smith was looking up and saying can you see it, and sidney rigdon was sitting down saying Yes, Yes, I can and then Rigdon would do the same thing - do you see it and Joseph would say , I see it - but everone in the room was just looking around and couldn't see anything - that was big one and something I needed to read. Dan Vogel wrote an essay on the witnesses in American Apocrypha and I would recommend that as your next book. I'v read about five great essays so far and have about five more to go.
the fear of loosing the promises / blessings from the temple ceremony was my largest contributor for the moments pause, somber and depression -- miraculously those feelings were instantly lifted while I read the detailed scripts from the masonic ceremonies .. can I get a witness !! hallelujah !! a true miracle