[Magdalen] Prayer request --Marion, Nurse Jay, Dr David

[Marion Thompson]

Very thoughtful, Sibyl.  No meds involved.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/8/2016 1:53 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> Prayers continue,
>
> but I just thought of something that might be critically relevant, or 
> might just worry you more, but thought that I should pass it on, since 
> I remember it.  When I was in my thirties, just after my divorce and 
> my parents' death, I was "suicidal thoughts" depressed (have always 
> been a bit of a Depressive, secondary to (what I didn't know then was) 
> my Asperger's)  I hadn't been wanting to try the "modern" 
> anti-depressants, having heard the bad things as well as the good 
> things, but at that point I was desperate, so I tried one lcalled 
> Tofranil.  I got a heart-irregularity side effect from it, and I was 
> in bad enough shape already that lying in bed at night and listening 
> to my heart do crazy rhythms was really scary, so I stopped it on my 
> own recognizance almost immediately.  (It may have _saved_ my life, 
> actually, because it did cut off the lowest points, even before I 
> noticed the irregularity.)  But the irregular heartbeat went away as 
> soon as I quit it.  Skipping forward to maybe ten years ago, the 
> Psychiatrist at the Mental Health Center suggested that I might want 
> to try a chemically-closely-related antidepressant, and when I told 
> him about my experience with the Tofranil, he fully agreed with me 
> that I shouldn't touch the newer version.  He pointed out that the 
> side-effect that I survived in my thirties might kill me with the 
> first pill in my sixties.
>
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> On 10/8/16 9:38 AM, Marion Thompson wrote:
>> An update on this prayer request:  Yes, stress and more recently coupled
>> with stomach problems.  So now, having given up the job, he is
>> unemployed again, which rachets up the poverty anxieties even more. He's
>> depressed.  I'm depressed.  What's new?
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
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>> On 9/16/2016 1:42 PM, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>> This is for my son, Chris, for an upturn in his affairs.  He phoned
>>> this morning. "What's up?" I asked, because there is always something
>>> up.  "Do we have a history of heart problems in the family?" "No."
>>> So, for the last long time he has had irregular heart rhythmn.
>>> "Stress!" I immediately said.  He saw a doctor yesterday and ya-da
>>> ya-da.  Not clear that he thought to suggest stress, but that's where
>>> my money is.  That medical exploration isn't over.   His crazy and
>>> difficult ex, his irresponsible nominal student daughter who's living
>>> with him and who is a financial drain as well as a worry, his working
>>> virtually for minimum wage although they keep promising upgrades and
>>> the possibility of F.T.E., all round and round in an endless cycle.
>>>
>>> On the brighter side, he has just made contact with a former colleague
>>> in the high-end car business and that may well come to something.  He
>>> has just done two TV auditions and has a call-back for one.
>>>
>>> Really, he is so over-due for a positive and permanent turn-around!
>>> Mothers never stop worrying.
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
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