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Siwsan

(27,786 posts)
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 11:37 AM Tuesday

I just had a phone visit with my prescribing therapist

It was set for 11:20 and I was about to do a telephone 'check in' when she called me! That's never happened before.

Anyway, I told her about the increasing intensity of my nightmares so she's prescribing a new medication for me to take at bedtime.

She's glad I'm going to my nephew's for Thanksgiving dinner because I haven't 'celebrated' it 3 years. I still don't have much of an appetite, but this is the nephew who will become a daddy, in about a month and I'm anxious to spend some time with him and the lovely mom-to-be. Maybe I'll get to feel the baby kick.

I'll let you know if the medication works. She's calling it in, today.

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I just had a phone visit with my prescribing therapist (Original Post) Siwsan Tuesday OP
I'm about ready to jump back onto talk therapy EYESORE 9001 Tuesday #1
I can't... 2naSalit Tuesday #2
Which is why Big Pharma does what it does to make sure their 'monopoly' is uncontested. OldBaldy1701E Tuesday #3

EYESORE 9001

(29,353 posts)
1. I'm about ready to jump back onto talk therapy
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:02 PM
Tuesday

I’m loath to start a new medication, having found side effects from 3 different types of antidepressants intolerable. At this point in my life, I’ve turned to psychedelics like psilocybin and DMT. I trust nature more than Big Pharma.

2naSalit

(99,225 posts)
2. I can't...
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 01:15 PM
Tuesday

Tolerate the meds prescribed so I just smoke bud, it works. I just moved away from the Rockies and have to rebuild my healthcare scene in my new location. So far, not going that well trying to find a provider but I'm holding for now. The excitement of a new environment still has me feeling more positive than not. I thought about this for years so it wasn't a rash move. Had to be a 'legal' state, though.

I had a talk therapy thing going for some time in the old location, was going well and my therapist continued to call me up until October. We stay in touch but she's more interested, at this point she isn't legally my therapist, in how my changes are affecting me and how. We became friends so we still talk about not therapy things. I am fortunate with that.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,691 posts)
3. Which is why Big Pharma does what it does to make sure their 'monopoly' is uncontested.
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 06:13 PM
Tuesday

They don't care about helping anyone.

They care about profits. If their product actually helps someone, that is an added bonus.

Thus, certain substances are ignored or reviled, certain procedures are discredited and/or blatantly lied about, etc.

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