I have struggled with mental illness all my life.

I am upright and mobile, able to hold a meaningful, satisfying job because of the daily medications I take and the therapy I undergo.
Please don't make naive assumptions about backbone, the struggles medical research contends with, and the motivations of gifted, effective therapists.

If you haven't been immobilized by severe depression and anxiety, been psychotic, paranoid, bi-polar, etc., please at least have a kindly sympathy for the millions who struggle daily with these debilitating conditions.

No, medical science does not have all the answers tied up with a neat little bow, and progress comes in fits and starts, but there has been amazing progress in the treatment of these conditions. (neither can medical science give unerring explanations for many of the conditions our society routinely accepts as illness)

I once asked a psychiatrist that I was seeing for treatment, what would have happened to someone like me 150 years ago?
He answered, not glibly, that I likely would have been chained to a wall in the family cellar or in a sanitarium.

I prefer the medication and therapy that allow me to have a life.


I'm sorry Older-Wiser. I so didn't want to hurt you or anyone.

Through my twenties and thirties three general doctors tried to give me antidepressants. In the 80's, one of those doctors sent the nurse out of the room and immediately reached into my blouse and fondled my tits through his diagnoses. At the time, the thing turned me on (as I remember clearly) and wasn't a big deal. I guess he thought I would be a safe piece of ass because I had just told him that I was addicted to sex which was ruining my life. Really think he would of used me further if his nurse hadn't been around.

I resisted the medicine because I figured it was the drugs and alcohol I was hooked on that had me so messed up. Years into it, I quit the alcohol and most of the drugs and still had overwhelming fear of being left alone and continued to seek constant company.

In the 90's, I went to a doctor looking to get me some meds to fix my head. He gave me a sample and scrip. I took the first dose on the way home and then spent the day researching the med he had given me. Learning that the withdraw symptoms were way worse than the original symptoms, and considering the fact that I would be in withdrawals between affording the very expensive med which could take away sex drive and others important pieces of myself, I threw the stuff away and HONESTLY, I STRAIGHTENED MYSELF OUT.
It was time to grow up. I had no other choice.

Of course I'm still whacked but am okay with it.

Now they want to put my five yr old adopted grandson on meds. It breaks my heart because I think he just needs dedicated constant direction to help him through the learned behavior of his early years.

I'm afraid.
I thought the same way that you did and for some it does, I spent years trying to straighten my self out and it did not work. but to each his own

Oh, I agree totally. It is one of the frustrating things about it all, that you can't just get a prescription like an antibiotic and it goes away in 3 or 4 days! Different things work for different people. WHATEVER WORKS BEST FOR YOU!!!

I have struggled with mental illness all my life.

I am upright and mobile, able to hold a meaningful, satisfying job because of the daily medications I take and the therapy I undergo.
Please don't make naive assumptions about backbone, the struggles medical research contends with, and the motivations of gifted, effective therapists.

If you haven't been immobilized by severe depression and anxiety, been psychotic, paranoid, bi-polar, etc., please at least have a kindly sympathy for the millions who struggle daily with these debilitating conditions.

No, medical science does not have all the answers tied up with a neat little bow, and progress comes in fits and starts, but there has been amazing progress in the treatment of these conditions. (neither can medical science give unerring explanations for many of the conditions our society routinely accepts as illness)

I once asked a psychiatrist that I was seeing for treatment, what would have happened to someone like me 150 years ago?
He answered, not glibly, that I likely would have been chained to a wall in the family cellar or in a sanitarium.

I prefer the medication and therapy that allow me to have a life.

Oh hell yes. Watching her face, she, like, goes into another dimension. It's waaay hot.

My usual reply to the favorite music question is, "I like good music."
Sometimes people think I'm being pretentious, but it's true. The genre, the artist, the style, etc. are not what draw my attention, hold my attention, make me think and feel, or scratch a particular itch I have at any given moment.
Doesn't matter if it's Allison Krauss, Beethoven, Palestrina, or Nirvana. If it's authentic, not overtly commercial (that does omit a huge sector of the performing arts, I'll admit), honest, and well-played or sung, I'll probably like it, or at least find it interesting enough to stop and listen, maybe imitate.

I make my living as a working musician and play various styles of music on guitar, double bass, bass guitar, percussion, blah, blah, blah.
Music and the arts are my bread and butter, classical music being the largest slice of bread.

Standing.
In a forest.
On a public trail.

Hard work!
Hot as hell.

Gen'rally speakin', if they swell nicely and get wet, what more can I ask for??
LOVE IT

I have always made my living playing the guitar--a variety of styles--and pretty much agree with all the advice offered, if that's possible.
One of the fascinating things about the instrument is that you can approach it in so many different ways, and use it as the backbone of so many different kinds of music.
Re. learning to play, some artists with platinum CD sales are self-taught!
For most of us, the question is, "How badly do you want to learn to play?" Cuz if you really want it, you'll find the ways that work best for you.
Best wishes and have fun!

Oops, I'm not a gal, sorry everyone.

People gonna do what people gonna do.
When they look in the mirror they don't see what you and I see when we look at them.

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