I just read an entry by Real Live Preacher where he discussed going on antidepressants for the first time. What really struck me were two of the comments people left for him.
"One of the things I do and encourage people I work with to try is to create a ritual around taking the meds, one that's sacramental like communion. Receiving the medication in the same way I receive communion as a reminder of God's grace helps me move out of unrealistic expectations that I should just buck up and deal with it and in to gratitude for God's grace in the form of medications that help me live life abundantly. The meds do not cover up the feelings or make them go a way; they give me the energy to actually feel with them and respond appropriately to them."
- Friday Mom
"My friend says that living with depression is like year-round Lent. Maybe meds give you back Advent, Epiphany, Pentecost, etc."
- Karen
Posted by rachel at June 1, 2005 01:11 PM
LOVE IT!
Posted by: colleen at June 2, 2005 10:43 AM
LOVELY ideas!
Posted by: kp at June 1, 2005 05:17 PM