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hercules21
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 Posted - 06/21/2012 : 02:47:03
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David used to post this thread once per year - and I used to compare my response from year to year.
Last time I answered I said no. I have side effects from my medication that suck quite a bit. But strangely one of them insomnia has almost gone away. And through having insomnia I found Internet forums to discuss my health. And while online I heard people talking about the need to stick with your meds. So I followed their advice and I have stayed healthy so without that advice I would have had another relapse. So in a way my insomnia worked out to be for the best. Especially since I don't have it any more. If I still had it then I wouldn't be talking like this.
Please don't answer this thread if you are dealing with a personal tragedy or a great personal loss. Obviously those things are never for the best.
Do you have a story of a misfortune like my insomnia story that ended up being for the best?
"Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.".  |
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| chelle25
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Posted - 06/21/2012 : 05:51:04
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Glad your insomnia is better now hercs.
I somehow believe that me getting serotonin syndrome from the celexa and me staying on the Geodon is worked out for the best in the end somehow. It may have been God's way of stopping me. |
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| Diesel
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Posted - 06/21/2012 : 07:35:41
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I never ever thought I would get relief from my panic attacks. Running around day to day in a complete anxious mess.
I honestly couldn't cope with these monsters in my life. Trying to stay so busy. Running a marathon everyday of my life to try and focus on other things. Running around crying and people would ask me what was wrong and I would snap at them and say "nothing" is wrong.
Then...........I met my p'doc. I didn't like him a first but discovered that he is both amazing and very kind. He put me on Cipralex which for me is an absolute god send. It's the best thing that has happened to me. It lets me be more in control of my thought processes but sometimes those ugly panic attacks rear there heads still. This drug made my OCD a little worse so then he prescribed a small daily dose of Seroquel. It just levels me out.
So see, it all worked out in the end. I will be on this stuff forever but I'm good with that!
I just want to be happy and healthy. Nothing more, nothing less! |
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| kathyintoronto
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Posted - 06/21/2012 : 09:50:13
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I've gotten pretty good at believing that things will work out the way they should in the end.
I know we aren't supposed to talk a lot about "the big Guy upstairs" but I get a great deal of comfort out of the thought that there is a higher power than me that determines what goes on in my life. This took a lot of the guilt (associated with my control freak tendencies) our of the equation.
If I look at awful situations in the context I am much more able to see positive aspects of any situation.
Kathy
"The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing"
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| codenamenimrod
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Posted - 06/25/2012 : 20:31:28
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For me, all the pitfalls and booby traps I've fallen in these past couple years seemed discouraging, but in the end it did work out the best for me. These experiences have become a part of who I am, and I wouldn't change any of them. I'm not going to detail what they were, because in all reality, what's the difference when you reach the end of the maze and find the exit sign flashing. All I know is I'll be damned to try for an encore. 
Enchantment is nature's song heard by a sensitive human ear. |
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| jodartha
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Posted - 06/25/2012 : 20:45:34
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Sometimes.
BUT not always. Regarding people in my life...I don't agree really. Is it the best to have people leave your life? Or fade away for what ever reason? Not really.
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| khaz
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Posted - 06/26/2012 : 15:28:27
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Hi
Glad you are well Hercs
Do things work out for the best?
I seemed to have swapped the pressure of my family for the pressure of loneliness.
My husband is happy so its worked out well for him.
No I think it just works out
You either accept it or you dont. |
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| Diesel
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Posted - 06/26/2012 : 18:32:36
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Khaz that was very poignant!
((((HUGS))))) to you!
I just want to be happy and healthy. Nothing more, nothing less! |
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| davidt
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Posted - 07/01/2012 : 17:12:12
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You are are absolutely right as to my philosophy on such matters Hercules...
For I have long since maintained with the right attitude we can get to where we want to be no matter what the initial difficulty!
Too often we underestimate the power of a
touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,
or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998) |
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| Meadhbh
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Posted - 07/01/2012 : 17:22:32
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So far I'm not really seeing it that way.
Meadhbh (Mave)
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Ben Williams
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| davidt
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Posted - 07/01/2012 : 17:32:20
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From early adulthood up to the age of fifty I was quite negative in thought which resulted in negative behaviour. At that age I experienced a heart attack leading to cardiac arrest.Had I not been in the right place at the right time I would have been a goner.
Now I am not inferring one has to be at deaths door to achieve such a sea change. I am sure there must be more convivial ways. lol
However individual members have to find there own level in life to achieve a more positive way forward..
No one can do that for them. For such a change in attitude has to come from within!
Too often we underestimate the power of a
touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,
or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998) |
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| davidt
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