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hi all At 15:57 1999/06/22 +0200, gerrit wrote, in part: >... Been prescribed to use a product with the local name of 'Efexor'. >This could interact with Eldepryl and my Eldepryl-usage have been >halved, the psychiatrist and neurologist working hand-in-glove... i am glad to hear that your two medicos are working together! i understand that there is such a thing as 'serotonin syndrome' which may occur when using selegiline and an ssri antidepressant together however, the 'may occur' possibility apparently is very rare to the point where either no cases or very very few have been documented [i'm going on memory - it's all in the archives] >I am still employed and is battling to be declared disabled. The >company is busy with a restructuring exercise and I heard today that I >lost my post. What will happen now?... hmmm seems to be a convenient [for the company] outcome of restructuring do you have any legal recourse? how is 'disability' defined in your country? it seems awfully frustrating to have to 're-invent the wheel' country by country in re determining that pd is disabling >A senior colleague (trained as a anaethetist) discussed my >depressive state with me and basically told me to "snap out of it". >This makes one realise that there is an amazing lack of knowledge - >even in medical circles - about Parkinsons... whew! not only about parkinsons but about clinical depression!! yikes telling someone with cd to 'snap out of it' is like accusing someone with polio of being too lazy to walk!!! my latest take on cd: ------------------- clinical depression is an evil black magic "wizard of oz" is illogical distorted negative thinking is to sadness as skin cancer is to a sunburn is common but commonly concealed in toxic shame convinces its victims of their "inherent and permanent worthlessness" and, tragically, is easily treatable and beatable but still is the leading cause of suicide ------------------- >We had a National Symposium on Parkinsons last Saturday and this >was wonderful, inter alia meeting brothers of the soil, so to speak. >Through it all I realise that I as a person will surface, and that >the darkest of darknesses will not keep The Light from me... good! i have learned [and in fact have always felt that] it is perfectly possible to be perky with parkinson's that the see-dee slime shame shaman can be exorcised and can be banished to the arctic to keep company with 'the blob' [warning: the above trivia test may damage neurotransmitters] leaving lots of room for silliness here and now! janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]