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Rule -> RE: My Wellness as of late (8/23/2007 2:05:27 AM)
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ORIGINAL: michaelOfGeorgia
i've had to cope with depression most of my life.
You did not answer my question. Did you do without medication for an extended time of years while being depressed?
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ORIGINAL: michaelOfGeorgia
as for liver damage
Who mentioned liver damage? Not me. What I said implies that your liver functions properly.
The main function of the liver is as a huge detoxifying factory. All kinds of toxins are part of the diet that we consume - alcohol being one example. It is the main function of the liver to render these toxins harmless. It is well known that alcoholics have enlarged livers. That is because they consume more alcohol than a normal liver can cope with, so the liver starts to grow to better deal with the alcohol poisoning. When enlarged the liver succeeds in rendering most of the alcohol harmless and the alcoholic does not become drunk any more. Consequently to become drunk alcoholics have to consume more alcohol than before. This causes the liver to grow again. It is a positive feedback cycle, reinforcing itself. See?
Now most medications - presumably the ones that you have used against depression also - are toxins. When it cannot cope with them we may expect that the liver or rather the specifically concerned cells in the liver will respond similarly to what the liver does when it cannot cope with huge amounts of alcohol: grow until it is able to render harmless that specific toxin. In your case that appears to take three months. As a result after three months your medication no longer is effective.
So what you want to avoid is exposing your liver to continues high doses of medication, for that will stimulate the detoxifying liver cells to multiply. Hypothetically there is perchance a slim possibility that the liver cells will not respond by multiplying when you are on low doses of medications or when you use these medications infrequently. That is what you should discuss with your physician.
You are far away and I know personally only one other person, whom I have deduced is a sub, that has episodes of severe, suicidal depression. So all I have to work with is a theoretical model with little pertinent evidence to support it. I do know, though, that it is possible to function without a soul - having experienced it myself. My inclination, based on this model, is to advise you to do without medication. Accept that being without a soul is your natural condition.
Your best medication is a truly dominant Mistress (or Master; it can be a nonsexual Master-sub relation), for she has soul to spare.
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ORIGINAL: AAkasha
The OP has a track record for discounting all advice, not wanting to try anything,
I know. I have been reading his posts for a long time.
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ORIGINAL: AAkasha
stating blatantly that he's beyond help from doctors or psychologists or anyone.
He is probably right, for they have no conceptual insight into his sub nature and will view and treat his depression as a disease, whereas in his case it is not.
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ORIGINAL: AAkasha
I would not be surprised if the reason his meds have not worked is that he did not take them as prescribed or gave up on them too soon, instead of putting more effort into it.
He is a sub. He will do as he is told. Also he has motivation.
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ORIGINAL: AAkasha
Initiative seems to be what lacks.
That is inherent to depression and to being a sub. A Mistress will supply him with initiative. I think that a good sub is going to waste here, merely because his depression is seen by him - and hence by a prospective Mistress - as a disadvantage, whereas in my eyes it qualifies him as the real thing.
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