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March 31, 2006
On air! Live! It's me!
This is Annie Armin
Okay, I kept on Annie Armin's mailing list (see entry dated a really long time ago: Armin Hammer. Lo and behold, I received an email with a program that was somewhat timely: The Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs: Part 20 SSRIs and Sexual Side Effects. I sent her a response.
Annie,It's your friend Cary Bass from the blog bastique.com here. I'm sorry that much of the Anniearmenlive@aol.com email has been winding up in my spam folder and I didn't see last night's topic until today...but it looks like tonight you're doing part 20 (is that right?).
I don't know if you want me to call in tonight, but here's what I have to say.
Although you originally called me based on my email to you about Ritalin and ADHD, at some point it came out that I was taking Celexa as well. I didn't know about a lot of the stuff that you had previously aired at the time, but I did know that I had been feeling a general lack of enthusiasm about anything in my life.
Annie, a couple of months ago I stopped taking Celexa, and I want to tell you in addition to my sex drive returning--what a wonderful surprise for man who is looking at 40 down the road!--I feel as if my range of emotion has returned once more as well.
The anxiety and depression I was trying to shut away with Celexa was completely irrelevent compared to the loss of my feeling like a human being. The difference in my life is amazing. I can laugh and cry with ease. I can be angry and I can be overcome with joy. I feel like I can fall in love again too. As far as my anxiety and depression go, yes--they're back, but nothing like I thought they were. I think at some point I grew up enough to handle them with acceptance. I will be anxious from time to time and I will be depressed. But these are things that come with life conditions.
I hope I never get into a state again where my anxiety and depression overwhelm me to the point of paralysis like I believed they once did; but today I've made sure that I've got people in my life who understand my conditions. These feelings pass!
I pray that I never have to become dependant on that little white pill.
There's so much more that I can't possibly write about in one short little email. I'll probably try to call you tonight during the broadcast. But feel free to take my number: 1-954-XXX-XXXX.
Cary Bass
Well, I got an immediate response. And, well, that night, I was on her show. Me, a celebrity!
It's an hour-long show...fast forward to about the middle to get me. Click Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs Part 20 -- Aired 03/16/06 and click the "Listen" button.
Posted by Bastique at March 31, 2006 6:05 PM