The Recovery Will Happen - Luc's journal

[Sheila]

That is so fantastic, Claudius! Congratulations on the big step of starting to earn some money after years of illness!

[Luc]

I am hindered by waves still after 5 years in WD now, but there IS so much recovery, I work now from home as a Web developer for 4 hours a day in a paid job. Still not enough to be financially self supporting but the beginning is finally there! And that was absolutely impossible during the first few years of WD.
I am sure we will beat this crap one day. And we are past the worst now, although I still cry when reading some Dutch fora about people who are have hit the full horror of WD, some uf them not able to reinstate anymore. I try to give them the best advice I can.
Thanx for your update and I still have not forgotten about that vodka in a Krakov pub!

So great to hear there is so much improvement, Claudius! It's absurdly slow, but one foot at a time. And it's fantastic that you're supporting others who have just entered this hell. We need to keep doing it - they won't get this info from the evening news (yet), so the help from those who already walked this path literally saves their lives. And yes, I remember about the vodka. :) I guess, as a way of compensating for all those years I'll have a double. I'm paying!

[Luc]

Just a mini update; paradoxically, despite the current wave, a couple more symptoms seem no doubt to have diminished in the last 2-3 months or so.

[Luc]

I can't imagine more complex (and more painful) experience human mind can ever go through. But, at the same time, something tells me it's "endable". For each and everyone of us. Don't give up hope, My Frends. Take it step by step.

[m&m]

Luc, i am sure you will be 70%/80% better and i also, it is only a matter of time; we have held 2,5/3 years (the most critical); we are not far from turning the corner, all testimonies show it; hang on, we are close to live again a new life;

No Stan... you guys will be 110% better!

I still shutter when I think of the really bad days, but you know what it is getting better for me (8 months out).

Praying healing for each and everyone suffering from the destruction these meds have caused.

Matthew 21:22 "And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” Don't give up on the brink of a miracle. It will happen.

[Iggy131313]

Luc, what symptoms are you getting in this wave?

[Iggy131313]

and what have you seen diminsh?

[Luc]

All symptoms have diminished on average, some managed to almost disappear (sometimes re-appearing, but for a very short spell of time, and at lower intensity). Some are more stubborn, but even those have gotten better (agoraphobia, anxiety, [anhedonia - in case of anhedonia, though, some improvement has been made in recent time], physical pain, etc.) But it needs to be remembered I am a long-termer, double c/t, throughout many years being switched from drug to drug. You will heal much faster.

[Iggy131313]

Im not asking for me Luc, but for you, :)

you say you had many drugs? I thought it was just paxil and xanax? did you try other ssris before that?

[Iggy131313]

so what has this wave been like? what symptoms are bothering you now?