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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
theta,
This may not help at all but I'll mention it anyway. Back in high school, when I was struggling with my first serious episode of PCS, I was put on an anti-seizure med. First it was Dilantin (phenytoin) then later changed to phenobarbital. I had two years of settled mind and brain while I was taking the phenobarb. I had no noticeable side effects. I was not taking a large dose. In fact, I ended up taking half of what my neuro originally prescribed.
I ended up needing it again in college to help me with the stress of studies. It help me have a stable mood, too.
Just a thought. It would be cheap to try and at low doses is relatively harmless.
My best to you.
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Thank you, Mark.
I'm glad that you were helped back in high school by the dilantin. Phenobarb does not sound like anything any of us would ever care to risk to take. Why ever were you as a young child rx'd such meds, as a child? Were you experiencing seizures? For pain? To help you to "focus&concentrate" in school, like for ADD-ADHD? Was it for behavior, e.g. out of control?
I'm unsure what you mean by "I had two years of settled mind and brain while taking the phenobarbitol" and "It helped me have a stable mood, too." My experience has nothing to do with "mood", it's not "a mood". My mind is 'settled', it's not all-over-the-place.
And if it were for me a matter of 'mood-regulation' I would not go to an anti-seizure med or barbituate use. OMG.
How toxic for a traumatized young guy's brain following concussion. Wow.
I can only imagine that on phenobarbitol a kid would be so deeply-sedated, and thus rendered "manageable" and uncomplaining, no trouble for anyone.
I can't picture any one doing well in school on it.
I'm just not keen on drugs, I don't think or believe that throwing 'severe' brain&mind-altering drugs at me is any way going to do it. I'm not impressed by antidepressants, in my own experience.
In my case i was not first-depressed' and
then got rearended. I got rearended, tbi-pcs'd, my life as i knew it and my self as i knew my self, went down the toilet. Whoosh.
I don't wish to be 'medicated' to change how I 'feel' in response to all of this. I want to genuinely
be better, do better, live and love and feel life more fully. As another poster said it, I want my self back.
Thus that's why my best choice is to turn to
serious meditation rather than serious medication.
To train mind to heal mind? It's my best choice.
Okay. Thank you. I do appreciate your suggestion.
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Mark:: May I suggest we continue to discuss in a new thread? This is potentially
a very interesting discussion! I wouldn't want whichever/whomever's thread this is we're on (I forget which) to get 'highjacked' to being all about meds.
With appreciation,
Theta
