As a 30 year Chronic Severe Depression in....

Post #29,523 by folkert 2/23/02 11:14:00 PM Reply	As a 30 year Chronic Severe Depression in.... The early stages of recovery, I am continuing to see improvements. I had(and still have) a severe chemical imbalance caused by my depression, caused by my female parental unit (my MOM, and no Christian you still do not want to "date" her) starting at an early age (pre-8 years or as far as I can honestly remember). Got lots of other Demons and skeletons to deal with too. I started out on Prozac a very light dose about 4 years ago. I saw an ALMOST immediate turn around of my attitude. of course any change from zero is astronomical. Then about 2.5 years ago, I started to realized I was falling back into the depressive state, or at least I started to feel the gnawing feeling I used to have. My wife also saw the rolling back. My doctor doubled and then quadrupled my doasge... no change after 6 months, but no slide back. He put me on Effexor, a mild dose at 37.5mg a day. That worked for about 6 months, before the it started to roll back again. Doctor doubled my dosage again to 75mg, made a tremendous difference, again for about 6 months. Changed my dosage again to 150mg, it is starting to peter out again, just took longer. Doctor said he is going to increase it one more time to 225mg before the heavies are brought to bear. You know the ones with real side-effects. Before my doctor and I started all this, he had an Endochronologist do a full and complete set of chemical tests (I studied real hard for them...;). Hmmm SHE found I have early stages of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Plus a really serious serotonin deficiency (hmm...imagine that). Moral of the story is, GET to the Doctor... MAKE the time... It'll only get worse it you don't. It took my wife threatening to do things, and actually tricking me into going to get me there. But hey, that was my problem. `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!` In 2002, everyone will discover that everyone else is using linux. Linux: Good, fast AND cheap. Failure is not an option: It comes bundled with Windows. ** "Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know." - Sassan Tat
Post #29,552 by nking 2/24/02 1:01:59 PM Reply	It may mean that I have to quit my current job to get a time that I can see my doctor to get to talk to him about it. I have no comp time or UPTO (unpaid time off) until I am there for 90 days. It hasn't been 30 days yet. According to MO Unemployment I can quit a job due to unsuitable work. DeSitter told me that getting payed a very low salary can qualify as unsuitable work, and I quit before 28 days are up on the job from the hire date. Anyone know the full law? One of my coworkers at work told me that if the depression was bad enough, I may qualify for disability, but I am not sure how much that pays and if my other medical problems are bad enough to qualify. I am near 275 pounds now, I gained some more weight after starting this job. If I reach 300, I guess that is the Homer Simpson clause? I am trying to lose weight, but it keeps on coming back. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #29,576 by folkert 2/24/02 8:03:02 PM Reply	It may mean that should put... your real priorities in order. I had to before things started to work. Make sure you take care of you first. If you don, taint knowwunelse gunna. Any job employer can make time for these kinds of things, there isn't one I know of that won't. Sure they grumble about it, but for them it is far better to have an employee healthy(both physically and mentally) and better able to work well. I DO know this: if you don't take care of it, it WILL eat you up and spit you out, without batting an eye, with IT being depression. Make sure you convey your problems to your supervisor, if that does not make a difference, go higher, and higher till it does. Sure I have been there, matter of fact recently with myself I had to go through these kinds of things (Dec 21st was a day off without pay or suspension as some amy call it), so I am still dealing with things. Cannot stress that you need to get your NEW employer in the loop as far as what is going on. Please, please, stop making things worse by quitting or by doing nothing. UPTO as you call it, is guaranteed by the FMLA. Even if you have only been there a VERY short time. Claim it if you have to but do SOMETHING! `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!` In 2002, everyone will discover that everyone else is using linux. Linux: Good, fast AND cheap. Failure is not an option: It comes bundled with Windows. ** "Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know." - Sassan Tat

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