Depression sucks.

[unixronin]

And there's not a lot more than that to say.

My parents know a psychologist who does disability evaluations in Spokane, Washington.  When the subject of my foot trouble and the continuous pain came up in connection with applying for disability, he said, "Of course he's depressed.  Everyone who's in constant pain is depressed."

I hate that it's so hard to find joy in anything any more, or find sufficient motivation to do things.

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Re: They are getting much better

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No, neurontin is primarily an anti-seizure medication, that turns out to suppress neuropathic pain as a serendipitous side-effect so well that it's widely prescribed for that side-effect. And actually, I think that did help and work. It's just that neuropathic pain is no longer a significant component of the pain.

Wellbutrin is non-SSRI, I know, and there's the older tricyclics (which were pretty much just powerful sedatives), and there's one or two others that are in a class of their own. But ...... well, no, at this point I don't trust ANY medication whose purpose is to screw with my mind.

I can't take ibuprofen. But acetaminophen is fine, naproxen sodium is fine, etc. (They're just not very effective.) I can't take cephazolin .... but ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, penecillin, tetracycline, vancomycin, methicillin all work fine. Percocet makes me throw up .... but vicodin or Tylenol III/IV are OK. And so on.

Psychoactives such as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, on the other hand, I distrust as a class. It appears I react very badly to them. ALL of them.