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------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 October 1997 From: janet paterson Subject: re-post: CD: perceptions shared ------------------------------------------------------- original posted on 15 July 1997 ------------------------------------------------------- hi margie you wrote: >Wonderful description of depression and our choices of >what to do about it. It's easier said than done to make >those choices when in the midst of depression, and your >letter makes clear, but the choices are there. >I'm going to save your article to re-read and to share >with friends, if you don't mind. Thanks. thank you for your kind words and please feel free to share away! recognising cd is the hardest aspect i think probably followed by accepting it and deciding to deal with it it's as common as the common cold but more so in parkies it's been hidden away in the 'looneybin' closet for too long as far as i'm concerned: if i have double-vision i have a type of bio-visual imbalance which needs to be corrected no shame/guilt/fear attached if i have pd i have a type of dopamine bio-chemical imbalance which needs to be corrected no shame/guilt/fear attached if i have cd i have a type of serotonin bio-chemical imbalance which needs to be corrected no shame/guilt/fear attached the 'corrections' are simply the ways and means i have at my disposal to 'tune-up' and 'fine-tune' as much as possible this bio-chemical body that i live in cuz i don't have a spare one handy the catch 22 of cd relative to other 'physical' imbalances is that it affects my perception of myself and my world the only reason i could recognise it in myself the first time was because i had done a lot of reading on the subject in order to understand someone near and dear after i was on an anti-depressant medication for a few weeks the clouds broke and the sun blazed through one day when i caught myself singing on the way to work for the first time in two years at that moment i fully realized [a] that there really had been clouds [b] that they had been dogging me for two years [c] that they had snuck up behind me silent and slow [d] that they had been twisting my perceptions like fun-house mirrors except that it wasn't very much fun however from the perspective i now have i can look on all of it as invaluable growing experience and would not change a thing not cd and not pd how else would i have arrived at this point of sharing so much with you? janet ------------------------------------------------------- janet paterson 51-10 / sinemet-selegiline-prozac almonte-ontario-canada / [log in to unmask]