--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > The only subjective reporting of relevance is that of SRRI users who > have a serotonin deficiency. Do they feel tranquilized, stoned, > anesthized, immune to "feelings", oblivious to life's ups and downs? > No, they don't. > > Do they feel the rawness and inflexibility symptomatic of serotonin > deficincy being allleviated? Yes they do. > > Do they feel more natural and "themsleves"? Yes they do.
Many years ago, pre-TM, I experienced a clinical depression. It took awhile for my therapist to get around to prescribing an antidepressant, but eventually I started taking imipramine (Tofranil). It isn't an SSRI but it functions in a similar way, increasing the accumulation of serotonin in the brain by inhibiting enzymes that would otherwise oxidize it. The only way I can describe my response is to say that after about three weeks on the drug, I began to feel more like myself (and that phrasing is the one I've always used; it wasn't suggested by what anonymousff says above). In another month, I was completely myself again, stone-cold sober, having my normal feelings. When I was depressed, I had been in an "altered" state of consciousness, but one that was the opposite of a "high." The drug simply got rid of that altered state. In another few months I tapered off the drug (and a little later quit talk therapy) and have not suffered from depression since. (Starting TM a year or so later may have helped prevent a relapse; it's hard to say. My prognosis was that a relapse was likely.) FWIW, I had several talk therapists, none of whom was able to track down a psychological cause for the depression. It appears to have been due to a chemical imbalance, triggered by who-knows-what. It's a mystery to me to this day. All I know is, the drug took care of it. And I never for one second felt "high" or tranquilized or insulated from life's ups and downs. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
