Hi Dark Angel.
My best online buddy is called Devilblitz, and he calls me his Dark Angel.
It is good to know you have a family that you love, and are loved by.
I lost my brother last year too.
It took almost one year for him to die in the hospital, from a failed heart transplant....but that isn't what I really want to say to you.
Please, please, please be careful about going to medical doctors about emotional problems.
They will definately be able to write you a prescription for any number of pills that might take the pain away....but at what cost?
I had cancer myself.
Twice.
The cancer was killed using powerful drugs (chemo) and so I "survived."
Strange things began happening during chemo....pain being the worst of it.
PAIN...not "hurting" that began in the legs, and soon spread to the entire body, making me a cripple.
According to the doctors, this was not caused by the chemo.
Cancer was
nothing compared to the Hell I was about to enter, at the hands of doctors and phrmaceutical companies....a Hell I still reside in, but am making effort to leave.
Next I was diagnosed with FM/CFS....I was already on antidepressent drugs, because.....well.....LOLOLOL....because I was a desperate IDIOT by that time and of course felt sad and anxious about the changes in my body and life.
These feelings are NATURAL to the human mind/body.
I did not understand that at the time.
It has now been 14 years since the cancer......and I am still unwell.
The list of drugs I have been on is extensive and frightening, when we consider that the long term effects of these drugs are simply unknown.
The antidepressents are the worst of them, and I truly believe are the cause of my continued debillitation. Once you are on them, it is very difficult to get off of them.
Sure.....they stop the agony....but HEY so does
HEROIN OK?
The only difference I can see......is that antidepressents are more readily available, and MORE DANGEROUS to try and get off of!
I found happiness by learning a different way of viewing unhappiness.
I learned this different way from (years of study with) the monks of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and by good fortune, from His Holiness himself....but I am NOT suggesting this for you. We must each find our own way to mental stability, and we are each unique.....but again I digress.
I found daily happiness in an unlikely spot.....a small village in the foothills of the Himalaya, where I experienced life, love, laughter and joy....but guess what? When the American Drugs I was on wore off....I became so ill I had to return to the USA and am now STUCK in a place that does not make me happy because my brain chemistry is so screwed up from all of the years of antidepressent drugs!
It's not just a return of depression, but problems with the brain itself which has been changed by these powerful drugs!
So........because I did not know that it is our j-o-b as human beings, to learn to cope with our emotions and took the quick fix of antidepressent drugs, I am now a prisoner both mentally and physically of those drugs. I have decided that if this body cannot live/cope without them, well then perhaps it should not be alive at all.
I am in my 6th week of AGONY that comes with discontinuing these drugs, because I truly want to leave this country and go live where I am happy....and these drugs are simply not available there. YES I feel sadness and depression, but this is a part of being human.
It would be so much easier to go back to the pills, but I will NOT do this!
I will suffer until I am FREE to go and live where and how I please.
So please DO NOT begin antidepressent drugs, or if you do......please make it for a very short period.
Look directly at the sadness and impatience and discomfort you are experiencing.
These cannot do you anywhere near as much harm as antidepressent drugs can and will do.
Oh...and to dissapate those feelings?
RUN....LOL....run hard and fast and regularly.
This is proven to do the same job as antidepressents.
It took me 2 years of struggle, to get these painful legs to run on an elptical training machine....but I DID it and I am DOING it and can see success and happiness ahead!
I wish you comfort and peace...............
Kindnsruls