Via Salon.com: ‘Why would I ever want to break up with the thing that had brought me actual mental health? And why hadn’t I known how hard it would be?…’
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“I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate.” —Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Surprised you posted this one without comment. Thoughts I had while reading it:
1) no seriously, why wean off? this drug seems to be saving your life
2) it’s a bummer to have SAD and have to do this twice a year. but even that low dose has repurcussions (for me, it’s weight issues), and who wants more than six months of no drinking?
Somehow I think we need to find a balance, as a society, between overmedicalization and fear of “being on this drug for life.” I mean, if a drug demonstrably improves your life from a negative state, isn’t it worth a few pounds?
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