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Acetylene · 12-05-2006, 06:36 AM

Thanks for the +1, Sultana. Oops on the typo :P

A dog is a great distraction and it is nice to have someone around who will always, always love you. Whoever says money can't buy love obviously never bought a puppy!

That being said, make sure you do it right--read a lot of books (not just websites) first, so you can speak "dog" as well as you speak English. Otherwise, you will not even be able to tell how your dog feels about you, much less express your own love to the dog in a way he can understand, and that is a sad thing. Fortunately it is easily avoided!

Keep in mind that buying a puppy will not reduce your stress, at least not until it grows up--especially if you are a naturally protective person. You will want to fuss over every soft stool and loose tooth for months (trust me, I've been there). Also, while trying to help yourself without doctors is good (and necessary, as your participation is vital to your good health), don't sell yourself short by thinking it's weak or unhelpful to visit doctors and accept their help. I'm not saying you need drugs--you might only need some talk therapy--but it is making things unnecessarily difficult if you have a real chemical imbalance in your body and do not take the medications that will fix it for you.

I have never been treated for an anxiety disorder but I was treated for depression for about a year. Antidepressants don't "fix" you, they make it possible to fix YOURSELF. People stay on their drugs for years and years if they don't take action to help themselves become idependently healthy, and give these meds a bad name as a crutch or unnatural thing. But the truth of the matter is, there was help available to me and I would have been a fool not to take it. I had already struggled for years to heal myself and simply did not have the strength to make the changes I needed without help. All prozac did for me was to give me more energy and more strength to deal with my life in the way it needed to be dealt with. At first, it gave me the strength to eat and shower (my roommate appreciated this). Eventually it gave me the strength to get a job and a new boyfriend who wasn't a piece of sh*t. At that point I was done with it, my life was working on its own, and I stopped taking the drug. Now I can run my life on my own.

I don't want to push anything on anyone. I just want to put my own experience out there. I think that staying off the drug out of some fear that it would make me sick or unnatural would have been the worst decision of my whole life. I doubt I could have finished college. I might now be dead, who knows?

It's true that drugs can be abused and misused, but when you have an infection, you are a fool not to take your antibiotics, right?

12-05-2006, 06:36 AM	#19 (permalink)
Acetylene Addict Location: under a rock	Thanks for the +1, Sultana. Oops on the typo :P A dog is a great distraction and it is nice to have someone around who will always, always love you. Whoever says money can't buy love obviously never bought a puppy! That being said, make sure you do it right--read a lot of books (not just websites) first, so you can speak "dog" as well as you speak English. Otherwise, you will not even be able to tell how your dog feels about you, much less express your own love to the dog in a way he can understand, and that is a sad thing. Fortunately it is easily avoided! Keep in mind that buying a puppy will not reduce your stress, at least not until it grows up--especially if you are a naturally protective person. You will want to fuss over every soft stool and loose tooth for months (trust me, I've been there). Also, while trying to help yourself without doctors is good (and necessary, as your participation is vital to your good health), don't sell yourself short by thinking it's weak or unhelpful to visit doctors and accept their help. I'm not saying you need drugs--you might only need some talk therapy--but it is making things unnecessarily difficult if you have a real chemical imbalance in your body and do not take the medications that will fix it for you. I have never been treated for an anxiety disorder but I was treated for depression for about a year. Antidepressants don't "fix" you, they make it possible to fix YOURSELF. People stay on their drugs for years and years if they don't take action to help themselves become idependently healthy, and give these meds a bad name as a crutch or unnatural thing. But the truth of the matter is, there was help available to me and I would have been a fool not to take it. I had already struggled for years to heal myself and simply did not have the strength to make the changes I needed without help. All prozac did for me was to give me more energy and more strength to deal with my life in the way it needed to be dealt with. At first, it gave me the strength to eat and shower (my roommate appreciated this). Eventually it gave me the strength to get a job and a new boyfriend who wasn't a piece of sh*t. At that point I was done with it, my life was working on its own, and I stopped taking the drug. Now I can run my life on my own. I don't want to push anything on anyone. I just want to put my own experience out there. I think that staying off the drug out of some fear that it would make me sick or unnatural would have been the worst decision of my whole life. I doubt I could have finished college. I might now be dead, who knows? It's true that drugs can be abused and misused, but when you have an infection, you are a fool not to take your antibiotics, right? __________________ There's no justice. There's just us.