Hi everyone. I'm not exactly new, but haven't been here in a while. A quick history:
Never was a "good" drinker; well that's an understatement, had a problem for years. Ended up on anti-depressants for about 7 years, none of which really worked, and some of which made me nuts. Effexor was the worst, made me drink like a fish and finally sent me into a psychotic break (pretty sure it was serotonin syndrome). After that I was diagnosed as bipolar, and put on a mood stabilizer that made it impossible for me to breathe. Finally, went cold turkey on all of it, against my NPs advice. Still drank too much, but not as badly, until the night I fell down the stairs. Then, did some research, came here, got the book and CDs and off I went. I had already been taking supps for my "mental problems" (after I decided never to take any pharmeceuticals again), so just tweaked them a bit with Kudzu and True Calm. WORKED WONDERS!! Moderated GREAT!!
Well, I was doing great for a long time. Then recently I saw a pattern developing that was not good! Had a hangover yesterday and came back to the board to read the posts. I was trying to figure out what went wrong, and figured it out. I was doing so well, that ya know what I did? Like an idiot I stopped taking the SUPPS!!! I mean ALL of them, the vitamins, the L-glute, the True calm. Well, duh!! I honestly believe that I was misdiagnosed as having depression - I'm pretty sure it's an anxiety disorder. I took all of the supps yesterday and after a couple of hours took a DEEP breath for the first time in months! God it felt good! I didn't even realize that I wasn't breathing I was so anxiety ridden! Maybe I should have gotten a clue a month and a half ago when I had a headache for a week, finally went to the doc and it was diagnosed as muscular spasms in my shoulders due to STRESS!! But no, had to have a couple of doozies of nights to wake me up!
So, back on the supps for me. And I'm going to dust off the CDs and MAKE time to do them.
Sorry for such a long post! I just wanted to say thanks for this board and for RJ. Mostly for allowing people to look at their problem in a different way and offer REAL solutions:thanks:.
Never was a "good" drinker; well that's an understatement, had a problem for years. Ended up on anti-depressants for about 7 years, none of which really worked, and some of which made me nuts. Effexor was the worst, made me drink like a fish and finally sent me into a psychotic break (pretty sure it was serotonin syndrome). After that I was diagnosed as bipolar, and put on a mood stabilizer that made it impossible for me to breathe. Finally, went cold turkey on all of it, against my NPs advice. Still drank too much, but not as badly, until the night I fell down the stairs. Then, did some research, came here, got the book and CDs and off I went. I had already been taking supps for my "mental problems" (after I decided never to take any pharmeceuticals again), so just tweaked them a bit with Kudzu and True Calm. WORKED WONDERS!! Moderated GREAT!!
Well, I was doing great for a long time. Then recently I saw a pattern developing that was not good! Had a hangover yesterday and came back to the board to read the posts. I was trying to figure out what went wrong, and figured it out. I was doing so well, that ya know what I did? Like an idiot I stopped taking the SUPPS!!! I mean ALL of them, the vitamins, the L-glute, the True calm. Well, duh!! I honestly believe that I was misdiagnosed as having depression - I'm pretty sure it's an anxiety disorder. I took all of the supps yesterday and after a couple of hours took a DEEP breath for the first time in months! God it felt good! I didn't even realize that I wasn't breathing I was so anxiety ridden! Maybe I should have gotten a clue a month and a half ago when I had a headache for a week, finally went to the doc and it was diagnosed as muscular spasms in my shoulders due to STRESS!! But no, had to have a couple of doozies of nights to wake me up!
So, back on the supps for me. And I'm going to dust off the CDs and MAKE time to do them.
Sorry for such a long post! I just wanted to say thanks for this board and for RJ. Mostly for allowing people to look at their problem in a different way and offer REAL solutions:thanks:.
.... :rays:
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