A new person came into my life recently who is into the health and fitness lifestyle, so we’ve been hitting it off well over the past couple weeks.
What I soon discovered is that even though this person is slim and fit, they are largely unaware of the more in-depth aspects of holistic well-being. They actively watch their diet and exercise like crazy…but still take a daily dose of Lexapro and nightly dose of Ambien to fight depression and insomnia respectively.
The Lexapro started because of a divorce that started about six months ago. The drug was used to help this person navigate the emotional trauma, but since then most of it has been managed, and there is no need to use the drug any longer. It was a “situational” depression, one caused by a circumstance, as compared to someone dealing with an unknown origin depression that just will not go away.
Having been a victim of the latter, I changed my lifestyle drastically at one point and made a lot of shifts in the way I lived that effectively resolved the condition for me, which I’d suffered from for a lifetime at that point, about 35 years.
I have trouble understanding why a person would opt for a prescription under the former condition; it seems people will turn to a prescription simply because it has become a way of life in western culture.
I used Lexapro when I was in a lot of physical pain, which carried over into a mental hell and no one else knew what to do with me. This was long before I figured things out for myself.
While on Lexapro, I nearly took my life within the first week. The drug caused extreme anguish, so much so, that I will never judge a person who commits suicide ever again…I was right there…and, if I ever meet the inventor of the drug, I’d love to spend five minutes alone with him; just five minutes.
That’s a story for another time.
My friend mixed up the Ambien and Lexapro two days ago, and for the first part of their day saw people with four legs walking around, among other semi-psychosis symptoms that after finally passing out flat on their back, was taken to emergency care.
And they remember none of this today. All based on third party two-legged witnesses, the four legs being the only part of it they have conscious memory of.
A warm magnesium oil bath works just about as well as Ambien for encouraging sleep.
“And that’s all I have to say about that.”