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I’ve been taking EffexorXR for depression, for about 12 years now, with a couple of breaks that taught me I can’t function properly without it. This can happen when you have depression from the time you were a child, but it wasn’t diagnosed or treated until you were in your late 20s.
I’ve been taking a tiny dose of Seroquel to stop the racing thoughts at bedtime, for about 8 years. It is intended to treat manic or hypo-manic symptoms, but those symptoms can come from Bipolar, Bipolar II, or ADHD. For me, it’s more important to control the symptoms (so I can easily fall asleep & stay asleep at night) than it is to figure out what condition is actually causing them.
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The purpose of any spiritual belief (whether an organized religion or not) is to show you that you are a very tiny part of something so monumentally huge and complex that you cannot even hope to understand it all.
This puts your troubles into perspective (“Damn! I missed my train, and I’ll be late for work! But the world will keep turning, whether I’m late for work or not.”), and also makes you more aware that everything you do is going to affect someone or something else, so you should “Try to make the world a better place, and try not to hurt anybody”.
Unfortunately, more blood has been spilled in the name of one religion or another, because people use it as an excuse to impose their will on other people. “Thou Shalt Not Kill” goes right out the window, when someone says, “God wants us to destroy these non-believers and take everything they own!”
Is it any wonder that so many people are abandoning organized religion, when they see the evil that it seems to encourage?
As for me, I feel most spiritual in a boat, in the middle of a lake, when there’s no wind and the sky is clear & full of stars that are reflected on the lake’s glassy surface, so you can’t tell where the sky stops and the water starts. And it’s so quiet, you can almost hear your heart beating. The whole, infinite universe is all around you, and you’re in the middle of it.
For me, that is the holiest place on earth. It’s humbling and terrifying, and yet, incredibly peaceful.
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