Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report& apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Everyone's experience with anti-depressants is unique. I was merely > offering mine to demonstrate that and in response to the original question > asked, not necessarily your particular experience, except to contrast that > everyone does experience p

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report& apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread lilith
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > In other words, my experience is pretty much irrelevant to yours. :) Everyone's experience with anti-depressants is unique. I was merely offering mine to demonstrate that and in response to the original question asked, not necessarily your particular

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report& apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not at all. I did find that they suppressed the highest moments of > > emotion, both good and bad. Sort of like an amplitude limiter. > > I don't experience anything like this at all on anti-depressants. The > 'passion' of my emotions is in no way

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report& apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread lilith
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So anti-depressants depress me. Ain't that paradoxical? > > Any other geeks find that? > > Not at all. I did find that they suppressed the highest moments of > emotion, both good and bad. Sort of like an amplitude limiter. > I don't experienc

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > I think the problem is that many people are given Prozac who do not > need it. Like most psychoactives, Prozac works wonderfully when > appropriate, and causes problems when not. It also has more side effects than some of the other SSRIs. > I tak

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread jenn
Rikki McGinty wrote: > > It sounds to me like people tried one kind of antidepressants and then gave > up? Just because Prozac doesn't work doesn't mean antidepressants don't work > or always have horrid side effects. There are a big variety of anti-Ds and > often you have to go through a bunch o

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report& apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Steve Kudlak wrote: > Note all the trcyclic antidepressants, Elavil, Norpramin etc andother such cause > fogging and clouding, or can cause clouding. They are not controlled > substrances, but in a way for me they have been worse than controlled > substances, such as valium(d

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report& apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread Deirdre Saoirse
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So anti-depressants depress me. Ain't that paradoxical? > > Any other geeks find that? Not at all. I did find that they suppressed the highest moments of emotion, both good and bad. Sort of like an amplitude limiter. -- _Deirdre * http://www.

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Kudlak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Rikki McGinty wrote: > > > It sounds to me like people tried one kind of antidepressants and then gave > > up? Just because Prozac doesn't work doesn't mean antidepressants don't work > > or always have horrid side effects. There are a big variety

RE: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread lilith
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Rikki McGinty wrote: > It sounds to me like people tried one kind of antidepressants and then gave > up? Just because Prozac doesn't work doesn't mean antidepressants don't work > or always have horrid side effects. There are a big variety of anti-Ds and > often you have to g

RE: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread Rikki McGinty
one that works. Many people really need that medication to function properly, or even to stay alive. rikki > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J B > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Kudlak
Blackjax wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Amanda Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 10:50 AM > Subject: Re: [issues] Depression & geeks > > >You know what's strange? (

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread J B
I think the problem is that many people are given Prozac who do not need it. Like most psychoactives, Prozac works wonderfully when appropriate, and causes problems when not. If we wanted to open the whole "unneeded psychoactives" can of worms, we could discuss the necessity, use and abuse o

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:43:51 -0400, Amanda Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I find the anti-deps helped me enormously and gave me enough of a >head start that I could crawl out of that dark hole I was in. I think >they are definately over-prescribed (as much as ADHD is >over-diagnosed, IMO), but i

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report & apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Kudlak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > > > > I have this sort of dual problem: I never understood depressed people > > until my husband died. And then I understood completely. But it's hard for > > me to relate to that place now. But for a while I really did understand. I > > took

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread Blackjax
-Original Message- From: Amanda Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [issues] Depression & geeks >You know what's strange? (but maybe it's not so strange, really) I find t

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks

1999-10-27 Thread Amanda Knox
NOTE: If we're off-topic here, someone let me know, k? I'm trying to decide if 'depression among geeks' counts as a women/linux issue. We are mostly talking about women in the linux community (ourselves) but still... I'm afraid of moving the conversation over to [grrltalk] due to the large amount

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report & apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread Deidre L. Calarco
> And the discussion swings back to the topic: > > I really REALLY hate anti-depressants, at least the ones they've tried on > me. > > Either my ability to focus thoughts goes away, or I get a fog around my > head and thinking has to push through it. And being /so/ geekish that > my intelligence

Re: [issues] Depression & geeks (was Flame war - after action report & apologies)

1999-10-27 Thread Aaron Malone
> So anti-depressants depress me. Ain't that paradoxical? > > Any other geeks find that? Absolutely. They put me on Prozac, Drug-O-The-Month, for a while during my severe depression... it didn't really depress me more, but it didn't ease the depression, plus it made me insomniac and even more