Withdrawal of OM and coping

[stubborn]

WDID...I haven't posted to you but I read your stuff and appreciate you giving another side of the situation:

Try this analogy:
I had a situational toothache once. A doctor would have prescribed antibiotics to fight the infection and then my body would have been able to take over and finish the healing. But I don't like taking pills for "situational" problems. I don't even care for aspirin, although that would have alieviated my suffering in a minimalistic way. So no antibiotics for me. And no going to the dentist or any other specialist with a degree and years of education and experience. I just sit home and experience my pain. Others with similar experiences and infections give me advice about how they took antibiotics and were then able to heal up, but, naw...no pills for me. It's a "situational" toothache...very real but "situational" as in I put myself in an unsafe position and got hit full face and broke some of my teeth...that's the "situation". Now I really want to save my teeth but...not yet. Not until I get over the embarrassment or horror of my mistake at getting into the unsafe situation in the first place. Meanwhile I still have my toothache. Untreated. And I start to wonder if it's even possible to fix my teeth because they are so badly effected by the "situation". I am unable to think because of the pain and totally unable to cope with the changes I need to make in order to heal. Ah, what the heck, it's only situational...but then the untreated infection spreads to my sinus, then to my brain and oopsie... I die.

Not to seem TOO harsh, but as someone who has had "situational" depression myslef, you need meds and you need to do everything you possibly can to help yourself and YOUR HUSBAND if you REALLY want to succeed. "happy pills" is a rather offensive term but I'm sure you don't mean it that way. "coping pills" might be much more accurate.

and did you know that untreated "situational" depression leaves the brain at much lower seratonin levels and much more likely to slip into another "situational" episode at the next sign of stress. Only a deeper and darker, sinking to a new low as it were. You are training your body that the way to cope is to ignore its signs and pleas for help.