Comments on: Just Like Robin Hood . . .

By: Hazel Butler

Hazel Butler — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:46:19 +0000

In reply to Mary-Anne MacKenzie. I find it disrespectful to the colour spectrum to even call it a colour :)

By: Mary-Anne MacKenzie

Mary-Anne MacKenzie — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:43:41 +0000

I am not partial to the colour beige either. Loved your colour analogy! 🙂

By: Hazel Butler

Hazel Butler — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:37:08 +0000

In reply to Charlene Hunt.

I completely agree. I am still on MEDs, and they are working for me, they keep the worst at bay but still allow me to feel SOMETHING. What I was worried about with lithium was was the zombie state you describe – putting myself in a position where I felt nothing at all rather than deal with the bad along with the good. It’s easy when you’re in the worst stages of depression to lose sight of the bigger picture, and go on the MEDs, thinking anything is better than continuing to feel the way you do in that moment. You can’t imagine surviving it. But you do, and you come out the other end still ‘you’. I think that’s far more important.

That said – it’s easy for me to say that right now. If you’d asked me a couple of years ago I’d have been begging for lithium.

By: Charlene Hunt

Charlene Hunt — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 17:19:34 +0000

No I wouldn’t either – The meds made me numb and now I feel alive and feel things whether or not they are good or bad but I feel them – I was like a zombie going through the motions of life – now I have learned to handle things naturally without any meds – and I know my choice is not for everyone but it is what was, and is, best for me