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Devin

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Re: Difficult issues
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2015, 11:43:08 am »
Some of my meds work by giving me some of the delta-wave sleep I need, but it's not perfect.

I do have some friends to talk to, at least online.  I kind of feel like I just go through the same loops with them over and over again.  That the pain and exhaustion and loneliness and suffering misery never end and talking to people is only a temporary distraction from all that and not even a very good one.
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« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2015, 11:58:07 am »
As far as the magical thinking stuff - I'm able to accept that there are illnesses for which there is no known cure.  I don't need to hold on endlessly to the desperate conviction that something will work.  Sometimes nothing will, and that's just the universe we live in.  Brain defects are really hard to fix.

Sure, it means feeling hopeless, because the situation *is* hopeless.  It's preferable to have a depressing but accurate view of reality to a false one.  Why?  Because having a firm grip on reality means I'm able to make rational decisions about my life and the future that will reflect how that life and the future are likely to be.  Believing against all evidence that some miracle cure is out there that every effort of science has somehow missed is not an accurate view of what the future will be.  Believing that would mean I'd waste time, money, and hope constantly chasing the next thing, the next charlatan, endlessly.  That's not productive.
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Re: Difficult issues
« Reply #17 on: April 11, 2015, 02:22:59 pm »
I'm going to support Vector on the "try Chinese medicine" front.  Particularly for non-infectious diseases like this one, even if it's no better than the placebo effect the placebo effect is still better than nothing if it means you can maintain a higher quality of living and get more done.  I'm actually writing my senior paper on alternative medicine, so I've been doing a lot of research into the matter.

There isn't a cure, as you've said, but symptoms CAN be managed to an extent (as you've already noted with the medicines you are taking).
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Devin

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« Reply #18 on: April 16, 2015, 12:48:18 am »
I'm honestly not sure if the placebo effect works if you believe the thing you're taking won't do anything.
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« Reply #19 on: April 16, 2015, 07:13:53 am »
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« Reply #20 on: April 16, 2015, 09:25:36 am »
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« Reply #21 on: April 16, 2015, 01:40:35 pm »
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« Reply #22 on: April 16, 2015, 03:16:50 pm »
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